Hello, everyone, and welcome to Speaking with Joy, a podcast to fill your soul, challenge your mind, and make you brave.

I'm your host, Joy Clarkson, and an evangelist for all things good, true, and beautiful.

So make yourself a cup of tea, find somewhere comfortable, and let's dive in to this week's episode. To enjoy things unironically can be a small

act of resistance to the soul-deaddening forces of the modern world and have profound spiritual

repercussions. Hello everybody and welcome back to speaking with joy. You're joining me for my

series on my new book, Aggressively Happy. And this week we are talking about chapter, I think it's

chapter four, enjoy things unironically.

And I have the great pleasure of inviting a friend on to chat with me today about the

themes in this chapter. And in a way, I feel like our friendship over the last six years has

all been building up to this episode in a way. So welcome on the show,

Bose Harrington. Hello. So Bose, we have so much to talk about today, as you said,

so much to vent about, so much to enthuse about. But before we do that, can you give people a little portrait of yourself, what you

do, why they might know who you are from a distance, and what you love? My name is Bose. I run a

Twitter account, Sketches by Bose, the library L, where I tweet about books and whimsy and faith and culture,

and it's gotten some followers. And I also write middle grade novels and mystery novels.

Yes, and it's got some followers. He means, you know, several hundred thousand followers.

I can't, I'm trying to think of of i think we tell this story every time we talk but when do you first remember

encountering each other because my first memory of you was i tweeted something about uh simon and garfunkel

and and uh rainy days and you commented back also being enthusiastic about simon and Garfunkel and rainy days and you commented back also being enthusiastic about

Simon and Garfunkel and rainy days and that's like one of my first memories of you.

But what is your memory of how we encounter each other on the internet?

You were working in Colorado Springs for a magazine and you asked me to write an essay for you.

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