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Rebecca Solnit — Falling Together

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Is There a Joy in the Dark?

Joy is such an interesting term, because we hear constantly about happiness ar you han. And this notion that happiness should be a steady state seems destigned to make people miserable. I really want to rescue darkness from the pajoritives, because it's also associated with dark skinned people. So i wrote a book called hope in the dark about hope where that darkness was the future. But in that darkness is a kind of mysterious, erotic, enveloping sense of possibility and communion.

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