Episode 28: A Reason For Delight - A Conversation with Poet, Ross Gay

In this episode, Carrie and Parker have a conversation with Poet, Ross Gay, author of The Book of Delights & Be Holding. We talk about Ross's books, his thoughts about finding delight in his daily life and as a daily practice, joy as an act of resistance and the importance of connection to one another and to the natural world. We hope you'll join us for this "delightful" and thoughtful conversation.

We are, to coin a word, delighted to bring you the Growing Edge December podcast with poet and essayist Ross Gay, who is himself a delight—as well as winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award. We always laugh with our guests, but this time around we may have set a new indoor record! You can read all about Ross HERE, but no bio sketch can capture the human spirit. If you want to experience the presence of one version of that spirit, please listen to our conversation.

We are presenting this podcast now because, in many traditions, December is a month of celebration and gift-giving. Some of us may want to choose Ross’s The Book of Delights (2019), or his more recent tour de force, Be Holding, as a gift for the people we care about. But all of us can think about ways to gift others with delight itself, whether we celebrate Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, Christmas, or the Winter Solstice. Start thinking about ways to do that, and your shopping cart will quickly fill to overflowing!

Whatever your December looks like, may you know delight alongside and laced thru everything else it means to be human.