![]() ![]() Delight - did it affect the rest of your day? ![]() ![]() SHAPIRO: When you spent that little time every day focusing just on that thing that made you feel love. Like, my sort of attention got cultivated. ![]() SHAPIRO: You're like, I've got too much of a backlog. That was - so like, accumulating all of these, you know? I have an essay called "Stacks Of Delights" (ph) or something like. GAY: And then, like, 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. 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. He wrote about nicknames, fireflies, reckless air quotes. Every day for a year, he would write an essay about something delightful. On the day he turned 42, the writer Ross Gay set himself a challenge. ![]()
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