The Book of Delights: Ross Gay's Year of Willful Gladness

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July 17, 2021 a project of ServiceSpace The more you study delight, the more delight there is to study...I felt my life to be more full of delight. Not without sorrow or fear or pain or loss. But more full of delight. - Ross Gay - The Book of Delights: Ross Gay's Year of Willful Gladness "On the day he turned 42, the writer Ross Gay set himself a challenge. Every day for a year, he would write an essay about something delightful. He wrote about nicknames, fireflies, reckless air quotes. And about a hundred of those essays are now collected in his new book appropriately enough titled "The Book Of Delights." When he came into our studios, Ross Gay told me that finding those delights turned out to be easier than he expected." Hear more from Ross Gay in this NPR interview. { read more } Submitted by: Jane Jackson Be The Change Read excerpts from The Book of Delights in this delightful BrainPickings post on "Ross Gay's Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Being Resilient During Coronavirus Barbara Kingsolver on Knitting as Creation Story Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier Orion's 25 Most-Read Articles of the Decade The Understory: Life Beneath the Forest Floor Two Words That Can Change a Life Beyond Overwhelm into Refuge Humanity's Wake Up Call DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 243,778 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More