Poet Ross Gay wrote a short essay every day for a year on the topic of delight. It fascinates me how it seems to have conditioned him to experience delight in almost everything.

🔊 Speaking with Krista Tippett on her podcast On Being, they contrast his experience with the impact that the media — its fixation being on despair — can have on a person.

📹 Here he reads a funny essay called “Tomato On Board” from the collection of essays The Book of Delights