Rebecca Solnit — Falling Together
On Being with Krista Tippett
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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