BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 RDATE:20200308T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 RDATE:20201101T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200304T180000 LOCATION:Templeton Campus Center\, The Bon SUMMARY:The On Being Dinners: "Tending Joy and Practicing Delight" with R oss Gay DESCRIPTION:Listen to an On Being podcast by Krista Tippett beforehand\, and then gather to discuss "the big questions" raised over dinner. Hilary Martin Himan from the Office of Spiritual Life will facilitate. Students \, staff\, and faculty are all invited for a small table discussion at th e Bon (Fields Dining Hall) from 5-6pm. On Wed. March 4 we'll discuss que stions raised by Krista Tippett's interview titled "Tending Joy and Pract icing Delight" with Ross Gay. From Krista Tippet at www.onbeing.org: "T here is a question floating around the world right now: "How can we be jo yful in a moment like this?" To which writer Ross Gay responds: "How can we not be joyful\, especially in a moment like this?" He says joy has not hing to do with ease and "everything to do with the fact that we're all g oing to die." The ephemeral nature of our being allows him to find deligh t in all sorts of places (especially his community garden). To be with Ro ss Gay is to train your gaze to see the wonderful alongside the terrible\ , to attend to and meditate on what you love\, even in the work of justic e."Ross Gay is a writer and a professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington. His books include the poetry collection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and a book of essays\, The Book of Delights. He is a board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard (http://www.bloomingtoncommunityorchard.org/site/) and a co-founder of The Tenderness Project (https://www.tendernesses.com/). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Listen to an On Being podcast
by Krista Tippett beforehand\, and then gather to discuss "the big questi
ons" raised over dinner. Hilary Martin Himan from the Office of Spiritual
Life will facilitate. Students\, staff\, and faculty are all invited for
a small table discussion at the Bon (Fields Dining Hall) from 5-6pm.
On Wed. March 4 we'll discuss questions raised by Krista Tippet
t's interview titled "Tending Joy and Practicing Delight" with Ross Gay.<
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From Krista Tippet at www.onbeing.org:
"There is a qu
estion floating around the world right now: "How can we be joyful in a mo
ment like this?" To which writer Ross Gay responds: "How can we not
em> be joyful\, especially in a moment like this?" He says joy h
as nothing to do with ease and "everything to do with the fact that we're
all going to die." The ephemeral nature of our being allows him to find
delight in all sorts of places (especially his community garden). To be w
ith Ross Gay is to train your gaze to see the wonderful alongside the ter
rible\, to attend to and meditate on what you love\, even in the work of
justice."
Ross Gay is a writer and a professor of English at Indiana University Bloomi
ngton. His books include the poetry collection Ca
talog of Unabashed Gratitude\, winner of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts
Poetry Award\, and a book of essays\, The Book of Delight
s. He is a board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard and a co-foun
der of The Tenderness Project
.