241119 What I learned in my studies this morning 5

Today's Meditation(s):

Five. Five years of Morning Studies. Woohoo?

I started this blog as a simple record of what I read and the basic topics:

That was it. The whole thing. Perhaps more appropriate fodder for a blog with the title this one has....

Since then, I've moved on to (on good days at least) more in-depth thoughts about what I read or think or experience or feel.

Since then, I've finished reading the three Big Stoics (Marcus, Seneca, and Epictetus) through completely, worked on several longer books about Stoicism (A Companion to Marcus Aurelius, Marcel van Ackeren ed. and Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, Sceptics by A. A. Long foremost among them), and generally found myself more thoughtful in my daily life.

I am learning to lean on my Stoic thoughts / behaviors / techniques / processes more naturally and automatically.  

"Why should I let this bother me?"

"How would my dad (role model, natural Stoic) have handled this?"

"Am I practicing [virtue] right now? How could I practice it better?"

"This is not up to me. It is nothing to me."

"My children / wife / friend may be gone tomorrow. I may be gone tomorrow. Let me love them today as best I can."

Slow habituation is bringing me down the road toward wisdom.  I've got a good direction. Now to keep moving along it.