221118 What I learned in my studies this morning 2

Hurly burlying 
Through days 'til two years had past,
Time to be better.

Year-end Update:

Today marks the last day of my second year writing My Morning Studies.  Tomorrow will be the rosy-fingered dawn of What I learned in my studies this morning 3.

*Two years ago, I began this project in an effort to better myself.  November 19, 2020's entry was a bare-bones summary of what I read.   Some of The Zen Teachings of Huang Po (Buddhist teacher).  Some of Eric Hoffer's True Believer (still one of the best books around).  And a bit from Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman's Lives of the Stoics chapter on Cleanthes.

By the next November, I had expanded my repertoire to include a daily haiku, a passage from The Daily Stoic (also by Holiday and Hanselman) plus commentary, some additional quotes to think about (generally from three editions of Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom 1, 2, 3), and sometimes a quote from Shakespeare.

This year I added a musical piece from Clemency Burton-Hill's utterly fantastic Year of Wonder: Classical Music to Enjoy Day by Day.

What new adventures await?  I am not sure, though I expect to shake things up a bit and alter the usual format of these posts, adding a new daily read or two and sunsetting others.

If you have learned anything from my writings, or even just enjoyed one or two along the way, I am glad.

Thank you for whatever portion of this journey you have shared with me.  Here's to many more years of being better than I was yesterday.

Daily Stoic:

I cannot think of a pithier, more cogent summary of what it means to be a Stoic nor a better way to coalesce my education since MMS began. There's nothing I can add to this other than perhaps I should do more of these things in my life.

Today's Meditation:

Today's Meditation II:

Today's Meditation III:

Today's Music:

Musica ricercata no. 7 in B flat major by György Ligeti

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