The Importance of Community in Life

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"I am the world's most hopeless gardener like a friend came around to my house for a drink recently and he was sitting in my garden," she says. "And at the moment, the whole right hand side of my garden is just mud." She reveals how her black upbringing meant that community was vital to her spiritual encounter with the world. 'To be clever enough I have to be isolated almost not true'

Welcome to the Wintering Sessions with Katherine May.

This week, Katherine talks to Ross Gay about finding delight in dark times.

Ross’s practice of writing down a daily delight - a small surprise or pleasure that might otherwise go unnoticed - is the foundation of The Book of Delights, his bestselling essay collection. Here, he talks about the way that delight can sit alongside our fear, anger, frustration and grief, not to block them out, but to find a way to survive them. Along the way, we touch on fleeting moments of human connection, the joy of tending a garden, and childlike art of noticing.

In a first for The Wintering Session, Ross closes with a beautiful reading that meditates on the softness of living in a male body.

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