[Unedited] Ross Gay with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying cries in almost every life-giving conversation that Krista has had across recent months and years, even and especially with people on the front lines of humanity's struggles. Ross Gay helps illuminate this paradox and turn it into a muscle. We are good at fighting, as he puts it, and not as good at holding in our imaginations what is to be adored and preserved and exalted — advocating for what we love, for what we find beautiful and necessary. But without this, he says, we cannot speak meaningfully even about our longings for a more just world, a more whole existence for all. To understand that we are all suffering — and so to practice tenderness and mercy — is a quality of what Ross calls “adult joy." Starting with his cherished essay collection The Book of Delights, he began to accompany many in an everyday spiritual discipline of practicing delight and cultivating joy.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.4	spiritual foundation for a loving world. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:10.2	principle and animating force for our lives, a powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:15.2	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.8	I'm Christa Tippett and this is my unedited conversation with the Gardener and poet Roske.
0:28.8	There is, as always, a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.
0:36.9	I think I'll go ahead and start talking. It's such a pleasure to be at this inaugural
0:44.9	Wordplay Festival and I have been handed some notes from our sponsor, which I'll read.
0:52.0	The Lofts Wordplay is presented by St. Catherine University and the Star Tribune.
0:58.0	Thank you to our sponsors, Target Children's Minnesota, Ryan Companies, the Hatfield Family
1:03.6	Foundation, Western Bank, and Hanley Wood Marketing. None of this would be possible without them.
1:10.4	I would like to be in bi-acknowledging. We are on unseated land of the Dakota people.
1:18.9	There will be books sold after this. Ros will be signing some books and I'm like the
1:27.7	person in the airplane who says, just want to make sure you're here for the flight to Philadelphia.
1:32.0	Just want to make sure you're here for the interview with Roske and I'm Christa Tippett.
1:39.5	So here we are. What we're going to do is I have these three beautiful books.
1:49.7	And if at any time you feel just feel called to read something, you may.
1:57.3	I'm like, that might happen a lot. Okay, that's all right. We have about an hour.
2:04.3	We're going to be in conversation up here and it is my plan that the end will have you read a
2:08.9	few things. Both maybe what occurs to you and also I marked at least one that I'd like you to read.
2:14.3	So we will get to that no matter what, but I just want to give you that opportunity for spontaneity.
2:20.0	So you grew up between, you were born in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania.
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