His life changed in 1992 when he read “ SantaLand Diaries,” a comic essay about his elf gig, on NPR’s Morning Edition. In the mid-eighties, he entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and began giving readings from his diaries. At the heart of the book is his difficult, unresolved relationship with his father, who died in 2021, and the inevitable change and loss we encounter in life.īorn on Decemin Johnson City, New York, and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, Sedaris dropped out of college and did odd jobs to support himself, including working as an apple picker, an apartment cleaner, and a Christmas elf at Macy’s. In his new collection of autobiographical essays, Happy-Go-Lucky, best-selling author and humorist David Sedaris writes about topics ranging from guns to teeth to siblings to the pandemic. The conversations in “ Between-States,” Ann Tashi Slater’s Tricycle Online series, explore bardo concepts like acceptance, interconnectedness, and impermanence in relation to children and parents, marriage and friendship, and work and creativity, illuminating the possibilities for discovering new ways of seeing and finding lasting happiness as we travel through life. The passage from death to rebirth is a bardo, as well as the journey from birth to death. In Tibetan Buddhism, “bardo” is a between-state.
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