Listening

The Practical Stoic Podcast. Motivation from Epictetus for the year ahead. Short, inspiring, remonstrating, unconditionally demanding, and less than five minutes long. The stoics weren't big on ambiguity or compromise. You are you and now is now so put the two together and make them go where you believe they should. This is a perfect tonic for that worn-out, everything-is-going-to-hell feeling that seems prevalent around town.

Reading

Letters from a Stoic. This edition of Seneca's Epistles unites all 124 of the letters in a single volume. A dense, scholarly volume that you really have to want to get through. Not that it isn't crammed with wisdom--it is--but the translator seemed to think it would sound smarter if it were as formal as tea with the queen. It is good for opening up and reading randomly, so maybe as a bathroom book. So, uh, you won't want to borrow ours. Better for getting the swing of the stoic thing is the Daily Stoic. Lots of resources and information all in one place. Be good, be who you are, and be OK with bad stuff.

Watching

Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. It's fun to watch the faces of her tidy-ees as they realize that: A. She's not going to do it for them, and B. It's going to be a huge amount of doing stuff that sucks. After watching a few, it does begin to make sense, even though it's much more fun to watch other people empty their drawers and closets and lug out trash bag after trash bag. Insidiously, every time you move a pile of shoes to find your gloves, the urge gets stronger to "Spark Joy" with a roll of big Glad bags.

Oversharing

Brian May's New Horizons Song. Yes, he's the guitarist for Queen, yes he's got a PhD in astrophysics, yes he was at NASA for the 2014MU69 flyby, and yes this is really like a genuine new Queen song.