Reading Ms. Didion's book probably saved my life. I was destroyed and crazy when the people I loved died. I read it about 3 years after my mom died. I'm glad I read it when I did. I thought I was the only one in the world who was crazy. Thank you Ms. Didion.
I was at my wit's end, going completely nuts until I read Joan Didion. Then, I started listening to the music of Joan Bayez and Joni Mitchell. I was thinking at the time that--if i'd been a woman, and if i'd been pregnant with a child, then I would have had an abortion. But i would have named that child joan or Joni, or Jonanee. I'm remined of Joan of Arc, when reading Joan Didion. All the suffering, confusion and anguish.
6:03, I like that she is honest and brave enough to name it: it becames part of the way you are. Because after a while other people around you expect that you get over it and maybe some people do, but some don´t, and than you can´t tell anybody, because they all tell you to go with your life. In a way you do, but as she says it is a part of you. Noone and nothing can compensate. At least that´s my experience. Thank you, Joan Didion, for writing the book.
Katie Couric is a joke. Whenever I see her interview men who are not what she thinks they should be, or men who have a mind of their own, she insults them and treats them in a way she never would dare with a female.
Katie is probably the best possible person to speak to Joan Didion about the deaths of her husband and later her daughter. Katie's husband Jay Monahan died in 1998 from advanced cancer. They had been married less than 10 years. This interview took place about 7 years afterJay died.
www.nami.org is so helpful to so many. Also listening to talking books or large print from the libraries. Life can be unfair sometimes 🎶Anything I do, I do it for you🎶 cover by singer Brandy is so graceful. Amazing Grace the Destiny Child version is lovely also.
And just to clarify my own position....I loved the works of Van Gogh and I'm pretty sure there are a few others out there who do as well. I don't ever recall looking up at the stars and seeing massive colorful frames around them....but there they are in Starry Night. So what's the problem with Kinkade doing the same thing with the fantasy painted within the pastels of his cottages? Nothing....Joan just profits from such opinions.
"A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels. It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. Every window was lit, to lurid effect, as if the interior of the structure might be on fire......is what Joan says of a Thomas Kinkade painting. Funny....Sounds a lot like a Van Gogh which also emphasized or fantasized reality. She is a critic and they are all shit.
It is an incredible book. She took exact words out of my mouth after my late husband died, word for word
Reading Ms. Didion's book probably saved my life. I was destroyed and crazy when the
people I loved died. I read it about 3 years after my mom died. I'm glad I read it when I did. I thought I was the only one in the world who was crazy. Thank you Ms. Didion.
I was at my wit's end, going completely nuts until I read Joan Didion. Then, I started listening to the music of Joan Bayez and Joni Mitchell. I was thinking at the time that--if i'd been a woman, and if i'd been pregnant with a child, then I would have had an abortion. But i would have named that child joan or Joni, or Jonanee.
I'm remined of Joan of Arc, when reading Joan Didion. All the suffering, confusion and anguish.
How incredible is she? Joan is one of my heroes.
6:03, I like that she is honest and brave enough to name it: it becames part of the way you are. Because after a while other people around you expect that you get over it and maybe some people do, but some don´t, and than you can´t tell anybody, because they all tell you to go with your life. In a way you do, but as she says it is a part of you. Noone and nothing can compensate. At least that´s my experience. Thank you, Joan Didion, for writing the book.
There is no time limit on grief. It can be as raw today as it was at the beginning.
Watching Katie Couric smile while Joan Didion is describing her tragic losses and grief is extremely unnerving.
Beachy Keen i can’t stand Katie Couric
As much as dislike KC, from what I recall she's had to endure her share of grief too. Probably just smiling out of habit in this case..
Katie too lost her husband
Katie Couric is a joke. Whenever I see her interview men who are not what she thinks they should be, or men who have a mind of their own, she insults them and treats them in a way she never would dare with a female.
Katie is probably the best possible person to speak to Joan Didion about the deaths of her husband and later her daughter. Katie's husband Jay Monahan died in 1998 from advanced cancer. They had been married less than 10 years. This interview took place about 7 years afterJay died.
I love Joan ❤️
www.nami.org is so helpful to so many. Also listening to talking books or large print from the libraries. Life can be unfair sometimes 🎶Anything I do, I do it for you🎶 cover by singer Brandy is so graceful. Amazing Grace the Destiny Child version is lovely also.
And just to clarify my own position....I loved the works of Van Gogh and I'm pretty sure there are a few others out there who do as well. I don't ever recall looking up at the stars and seeing massive colorful frames around them....but there they are in Starry Night. So what's the problem with Kinkade doing the same thing with the fantasy painted within the pastels of his cottages? Nothing....Joan just profits from such opinions.
o katy katy katy
whut went rong?
She is now dead and I am sad
:'( me too
I too, I'll miss her literary voice.
"A Kinkade painting was typically rendered in slightly surreal pastels. It typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel. Every window was lit, to lurid effect, as if the interior of the structure might be on fire......is what Joan says of a Thomas Kinkade painting. Funny....Sounds a lot like a Van Gogh which also emphasized or fantasized reality. She is a critic and they are all shit.
We all have to die……..
Too much Couric and not enough Didion