I think also a lot of your delights are about human connections made like fleeting ones just little gestures. I'm assuming your book was written before the pandemic which it must have been if it was five years ago. Yeah, that's right. But I don't know if we realize it's fundamental actually I'd, it seems so trivial even as I'm saying it appears so trivial. And I certainly began to really miss that just smiling at people while I picked up my coffee or something. Absolutely, absolutely. It's like fundamental. Yes, that's exactly it.
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.
We talked about:
- Fleeting moments of human connection
- The joy of tending a garden
- The childlike act of noticing
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