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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom and temperance.

And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time.

And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to work or to get the kids to school when we have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

Hey, everyone, I'm so excited about today's guest because Ali is someone who is part of my nightly ritual. I know that sounds very weird, but every night I read two books to my four year old and my two year old.

They don't totally get it, but it's a ritual we love. I read them the days entry from a poem for every night of the year, and I also read them a page of Shakespeare for every day of the year. And both these books are by the wonderful Ali Asiri.

She's a UK based writer, poet, editor, and she's put together these magnificent collections of daily reads that I just can't recommend highly enough. If you're a fan of the daily stoic, you know the power of sort of daily ritual, the daily reads.

I'm always on the lookout for books that let me do that that can be part of my morning routine or weekend routine. And that's where today's guest comes in because she is incredibly prolific editor of these books. She's done a poem for every day of the year, a poem for every night of the year, a poem for every winter day, a poem for every autumn day.

And so many other books she's done if a treasury of poems for almost every possibility, the love book classical and contemporary poems.

Look, people rave about her stuff because it's amazing. She and I, you'll see in this episode nerd out over poetry. And look, I get it. If you're one of the people has come to stoicism because you love sports or an military and all these masculine things and you think the poetry is not for me.

As you'll see in this episode, the still looks love poetry. There's something special about poetry. And we're not just talking about beautiful poems about flowers and lakes and things. We're talking about poems that can make you better. We're going to talk about really practical applicable poems.

So I can't wait for you to listen to this awesome episode with my new friend, Ali Asiri. You can check out a poem for every night of the year, which is where I would start. And I like her Shakespeare one as well. You can follow her at Ali Asiri, Al L I E S I R I.

And on Instagram, and you can also go to her website at Ali Asiri.com.

Well, I'm so I'm so excited to talk. I was I read every night. I read a poem for every night of the year with my son. And then I also read your your daily Shakespeare book. And so I think yesterday was.

Blanxton News and Merchant of Venice. Oh, that's a good combination. The Langston Hughes. Because all around Martin Luther King Junior Day. I had like a round of poems about civil right. Yeah. Yeah.

That was really thrilled to get permission to put them.

And I was just, you know, when I was doing when my agent suggested that I do this book, the daily still like I, I don't know, I wasn't as someone who loves books. I love to just read all the way through. So the idea of a page a day thing didn't quite make sense to me.

But I've really fallen in love with the medium and it sounds like you have to.

Yes, and yours came out in 2016, too, didn't they? The daily. Yes. Yeah. Same. My first one, a poem for every night of the year.

Came out autumn 2016. So we must have had similar idea at the same time.

Yeah. Why do you think it works so well? I mean, it's sort of the opposite of how books are supposed to be. You're supposed to start the book and finish the book and the idea of.

And then the thing that I think it out over a year seems a bit strange, but.

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