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A very delightful collection of 102 "essayettes" by poet, teacher, and enthusiastic gardener Ross Gay. He begins the project on his 42nd birthday when he decides to write about something that delights him everyday for a year. Well, some days get missed, and likely a few of the pieces were edited out, but the hundred and change which are included here are sweet, short, reflective, rambling, occasionally educational, and often very funny. Gay is the kind of man who will carry a tomato plant onto an airplane, to notice and appreciate little moments of kindness and acknowledgement between humans, who carefully observes the natural world and feels kindship with it. I recommend this as small anecdote to the year 2020.