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216. How to Find DELIGHT Today (and Every Day) with Ross Gay

We Can Do Hard Things

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The Importance of Joy

I love that when you're saying that joy is not easy, it has everything to do with the fact that we are all going to die. I think that that's where maybe I have thought about joy incorrectly. It feels like joy is something that, you know, it's sort of available. The connection, the fundamental connection or the entanglement, it's available. You don't escape there. But you're right. You enter there, you know. We must practice and study and sing and dream and celebrate belonging to each other as though our lives depend on it. Yeah. It's not the escapism, it's the reality. Oh my goodness, your work is

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