![]() I mean, the thing that I also discovered in the course of writing this is that so much of what, to me, sort of inspired or uncovered or unveiled delight was so often personal interactions. ![]() SHAPIRO: When you spent that little time every day focusing just on that thing that made you feel love, delight, did it affect the rest of your day? Like, my sort of attention got cultivated. ![]() SHAPIRO: Oh, right - where you're like, clear the decks. You know, I have an essay called "Stacks Of Delights" or something like that. That was - so, like, accumulating all of these. And then, like, a couple of weeks in, maybe a month or so in, I started to be, like, taking notebooks of, like - that was delightful. ![]() I'm going to, like, have to look around, like, be, like, really attentive. ROSS GAY: Well, one of the things that I realized is that - in the beginning, I thought, oh, man. He collected about 100 of those essays in "The Book Of Delights," and this seems like a good moment to rebroadcast our conversation about that book from early last year. Starting on his 42nd birthday, he wrote an essay every day about something delightful - nicknames, fireflies, reckless air quotes. The writer Ross Gay spent a year doing that. ![]() When things feel dark, it can be all the more important to seek out and recognize joy. ![]()
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