The Joy of Growing Up

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The premise of the book is like it's fucked. And there will periodically be actually in this new book I'm in this new books to of the book of the lights I find myself wanting to respond to that a little bit. It's sort of like how does it's a childish endeavor to imagine that we can just be happy. Like growing people know you're not it's not all just happy. That's just like being grown.

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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