The Importance of Pleasure

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I want to ask about the context in which you're writing about delight and about loveliness and happiness. There's a there's a real undercurrent of dark things happening behind it isn't that. I feel like maybe maybe I might do better this year but I've left it too late already, right? Yeah yeah so there are plenty of things to grow... Alright we're going to check in with you periodically and make sure you're ordered but you're going to take care of yourself. Now back to the show.

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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