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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes.

Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.

And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

We interview Stoke philosophers, we explore at length how these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal,

and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast. I have talked about my love of poetry before.

There's a book I actually read to my kids most nights called a poem for every day of the year by Ali Asiri, who I've had on the podcast before. Marcus Aurelius loves poetry, Clienti's loves poetry.

Some of the Stokes even wrote poetry, some of which survives to us. I find in poetry the ability to express ideas succinctly paradoxically beautifully in a way that you know, pros sometimes isn't able to.

I tend to like older poems better than newer poems, but that's sort of true even for me in prose, but one poet I was turned on to many years ago as I'm sure many of you listening were turned on to them because his stuff is just so shareable.

He is in the way that daily still is tapped in to some of these social networks to share these still ideas young Pueblo aka Diego Perez has brought a thing that people might have thought couldn't work on social media two millions of people via social media.

Diego is from Ecuador, moved to the US as a kid, he grew up in Boston, he attended Wesleyan and his entry point into spirituality and poetry was through Buddhism.

So we're going to be talking about philosophical ideas from the Eastern and Western perspective today. If you've been in the painted porch any time in the last couple of months, you see we have a big poetry collection and we carry a lot of today's guests work, including his book clarity, which was a huge best seller and his new book lighter came out earlier last month.

If you're not following him on Instagram, you should that's young Pueblo why you and G underscore Pueblo and young Pueblo calm on Twitter at young Pueblo.

I find that his work is just wonderfully well suited to social media. I never feel worse reading one of his poems they connect with you that give you something to think about that clearly come from a very heartfelt place.

And I really enjoyed this episode where we talk about our mutual love of poetry and his new book lighter and I'll just leave you there thanks to young Pueblo for coming on and enjoy.

Yeah, I'm a big fan also I resell this book and my bookstore and people love it. Awesome. Thank you so much. Yeah, I've been I've been following you for I think maybe like six years like it's been a long time. Yeah, for sure.

Oh, that's very cool. Well, I saw we've been we've been trading back and forth on the on the best seller list. So that's fun also. I know we're both a very fortunate people.

Not as fortunate as James Clear, who seems to be just perpetually there. It's but congrats on number one. That's amazing.

Thank you. Yeah, yeah, I mean James is a juggernaut and rightfully so, you know, he's he's he created something incredible. But it's so funny to see how much it takes to get him off of number one for one week.

Yeah, no, I want to talk to you about that because I want to I want to hear what it felt like to you to hit it, but there is something humbling about like you you work for months and months on this launch.

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