![]() ![]() Which sounds more dramatic than it might. ![]() Not to mention the existential sorrow we all might be afflicted with, which is that we, and what we love, will soon be annihilated. ![]() Everyone, regardless, always, of everything. Gay wrote one essay per day over a year and took the time to find delights in his everyday life. Might, even, join.Īnd what if the wilderness – perhaps the densest wild in there – thickets, bogs, swamps, uncrossable ravines and rivers (have I made the metaphor clear?) – is our sorrow? Or, to use Smith’s term, the “intolerable.” It astonishes me sometimes – no, often – how ever person I get to know – everyone, regardless of everything, by which I mean everything – lives with some profound personal sorrow. Ross Gay’s wonderful collection entitled The Book of Delights honors familiar sights, sounds, and interactions by describing the wonder and joy found within each. The Book of Delights is a collection of lyrical essays. That the body, the life, might carry a wilderness, an unexplored territory, and that yours and mine might somewhere, somehow, meet. Ross Gay, author of “The Book of Delights.”Įxcerpt: Chapter: Joy is Such a Human MadnessĪmong the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard anyone say came from my student Bethany, talking about her pedagogical aspirations or ethos, how she wanted to be as a teacher, and what she wanted her classrooms to be: “What if we joined our wildernesses together?” Sit with that for a minute. ![]()
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