lilacs
Earlier this morning, I was listening to an episode of the podcast On Being where Krista Tippett was speaking with the writer Ross Gay. The episode is an older one, from 2019, and is called On the Insistence of Joy. In it, Ross Gay was discussing his daily practice of finding joy and the importance of finding pockets of joy during troubling and difficult times. I felt my heart swell in my chest and I knew just what he meant. And I could tell he knew what he was talking about, hailing from Youngstown, Ohio and now living and working in Bloomington, Indiana. Two places, like this one where I live, struck hard by deindustrialization but located on America’s notorious rust belt.
It felt pretty dreamy to be listening to this podcast while walking with Poppy, feeding the crows, and foraging for feral flowers in the fallow garden. The florals I foraged for culinary purposes also looked pretty dreamy when I got home so I did a little photoshoot on the dining table in my living room that doubles as my home studio.
PS - Krista Tippett and Ross Gay were discussing his 2019 book, The Book of Delights. I haven’t read it yet, but I intend to!
