Roskai: "There is joy emerging from this shared sorrow that we will never truly know anyone and including ourselves" If you'd be willing to take 30 seconds to do each or all of these three things first, can you please follow or subscribe to We Can Do Hard Things? Having the Pod helps you because you'll never miss an episode. While you're there, if you'd been willing to give us a five star rating and review and share an episode you loved for a friend, we would be so great.
Ross Gay teaches us how to notice delight and joy in our everyday lives. We discuss: concrete ways to rediscover and capture joy every day; how to rebuild your “delight muscle”; how to dissolve the myth of disconnection between us; and how to “unknow” our people so we can delight in them.
About Ross:
Ross Gay is an American poet, essayist, and professor committed to healing the world through observing and articulating joy, delight and gratitude. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his 2014 book, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, which was also a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. A devoted community gardener, Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. A college football player, he is a founding editor of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin'.
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