The book: A few weeks before his 42nd birthday, Ross Gay decided to try to write a daily essay on delight, starting on his birthday and ending one year later, when he turned 43. Although he ended up not writing every single day, there are about 100 short essays in here, some only a paragraph, some several pages. They cover all kinds of thing that delight Gay, things you might think of, like hummingbirds or flowers, and sometimes things you really, really might not think […]
“Terror and delight sitting next to each other, their feet dangling off the side of a bridge very high up.”
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
