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After reading Ross Gay's The Book of Delights, I was so over the moon with joy and inspiration that I decided to start writing something down every day about that which delights me in journal entry style. Here you will find some selected entries.
But first, allow me share a poem called Mindful by Mary Oliver; a poet who reminds me that the act of paying attention is one of the most important and delightful forms of devotion and prayer.
Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for --
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world --
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant --
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
but grow wise
with such teachings
as these --
the untrimmable light
of the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?
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