Daily Reading

[close] I'm not a Christian, but one idea Christians have come up with and long practiced that I think is brilliant is the Daily Devotional. The idea is basically just to have a book of curated short readings for daily reflection. The readings are organized by calendar day, so you don't have to make a decision about what to read, there's a reading for every day of the year, and many people can be synced up reading the same text on a daily basis, which facilitates silent camaraderie or highly contextual discussion whenever desired. Nowadays there are a wealth of non-religious daily reading books organized in this way. See for example this Secular Daily Readings book list here on Goodreads, which includes 32 such books as of today: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8519.Secular_Daily_Readings My wife and I like to have one of these books going all the time for a bit of reflection each day. I like how it gives me a daily does of some wisdom or philosophy, a reflection about some important aspect of life, a reminder each day about a useful perspective. We also appreciate that it's in book form - offline reading material we can take in at a quiet reflective space and time of day, compared to a daily email which I'm likely to look at while my mind is racing and cluttered with mundane matters of the day. Sometimes as I'm doing my daily reading I think, there must be a lot of other people out there looking at these same words today. I wished to have a space to connect with other readers of these books, to share questions, reflections and interpretations of a particular day's reading. That's why I've created this group.