<![CDATA[Daily Reading Ritual]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gnJL!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6d2aa0f5-48c3-4f47-84a2-790533e7eab0_1052x1054.pngDaily Reading Ritualhttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.comSubstackSat, 05 Sep 2026 03:01:55 GMT<![CDATA[Day 61: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-61-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-61-daily-readingsFri, 04 Sep 2026 07:04:52 GMT4th September

Link to Readings

Short Story: The Ceiling by Kevin Brockmeier

Essay: Trapped by Aron Ralston

Welcome to my Virtual Reading Nook

Ray Bradbury speaks about reading one short story, one essay, and one poem a day for 1000 days to fill your head with an abundance of ideas! I took him up on this challenge.

I believe that all of us want to fight against the 21st-century dystopia of overstimulation and incorporate a little more reading into our lives.

Let’s do it together. Welcome to the Search for Beauty and Truth!

What to Expect from this Page

  1. Links to Reading Materials DAILY - One Essay and One Short Story

    You can use the weekends to catch up on earlier readings!

  2. Occasional Poems

  3. Quotes from the Reading Material that touched me!

  4. Literature and Life and an Undying Quest for Beauty and Truth!

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]]><![CDATA[Day 60: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-60-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-60-daily-readingsThu, 03 Sep 2026 07:04:49 GMT3rd September

Link to Readings

Short Story: We Never Went Away, We Just Hid Better by Sam Rebelein

Essay: When things go Missing by Kathryn Schulz

(Essay is behind a Paywall. There are websites where you can remove these paywalls: ‘remove paywall’. You didn’t hear this from me xD)

Welcome to my Virtual Reading Nook

Ray Bradbury speaks about reading one short story, one essay, and one poem a day for 1000 days to fill your head with an abundance of ideas! I took him up on this challenge.

I believe that all of us want to fight against the 21st-century dystopia of overstimulation and incorporate a little more reading into our lives.

Let’s do it together. Welcome to the Search for Beauty and Truth!

What to Expect from this Page

  1. Links to Reading Materials DAILY - One Essay and One Short Story

    You can use the weekends to catch up on earlier readings!

  2. Occasional Poems

  3. Quotes from the Reading Material that touched me!

  4. Literature and Life and an Undying Quest for Beauty and Truth!

Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

]]><![CDATA[Day 59: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-59-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-59-daily-readingsWed, 02 Sep 2026 07:02:56 GMT2nd September

Link to Readings

Short Story: Honeymoon by J. Jezewska Stevens

Essay: Why Go Out? by Sheila Heti

(Short story is behind a paywall. There are websites where you can remove these paywalls: ‘remove paywall’. You didn’t hear this from me xD)

Welcome to my Virtual Reading Nook

Ray Bradbury speaks about reading one short story, one essay, and one poem a day for 1000 days to fill your head with an abundance of ideas! I took him up on this challenge.

I believe that all of us want to fight against the 21st-century dystopia of overstimulation and incorporate a little more reading into our lives.

Let’s do it together. Welcome to the Search for Beauty and Truth!

What to Expect from this Page

  1. Links to Reading Materials DAILY - One Essay and One Short Story

    You can use the weekends to catch up on earlier readings!

  2. Occasional Poems

  3. Quotes from the Reading Material that touched me!

  4. Literature and Life and an Undying Quest for Beauty and Truth!

Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

]]><![CDATA[Day 58: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-58-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-58-daily-readingsTue, 01 Sep 2026 07:02:44 GMT1st September

Link to Readings

Short Story: Nobody Gets out Alive by Leigh Newman

Essay: The Souls of Black Folk (Essay I) by W. E. B. Du Bois

Welcome to my Virtual Reading Nook

Ray Bradbury speaks about reading one short story, one essay, and one poem a day for 1000 days to fill your head with an abundance of ideas! I took him up on this challenge.

I believe that all of us want to fight against the 21st-century dystopia of overstimulation and incorporate a little more reading into our lives.

Let’s do it together. Welcome to the Search for Beauty and Truth!

What to Expect from this Page

  1. Links to Reading Materials DAILY - One Essay and One Short Story

    You can use the weekends to catch up on earlier readings!

  2. Occasional Poems

  3. Quotes from the Reading Material that touched me!

  4. Literature and Life and an Undying Quest for Beauty and Truth!

    Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

]]><![CDATA[Day 57: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-57-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-57-daily-readingsMon, 31 Aug 2026 08:59:18 GMT31st August

Link to Readings

Short Story: Seeing through Maps by Madeline FFitch

Essay: On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain

Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

Welcome to my Virtual Reading Nook

Ray Bradbury speaks about reading one short story, one essay, and one poem a day for a 1000 days to fill your head with an abundance of ideas! I took him up on this challenge.

I believe that all of us want to fight against the 21st-century dystopia of overstimulation and incorporate a little more reading into our lives.

Let’s do it together. Welcome to the Search for Beauty and Truth!

What to Expect from this Page

  1. Links to Reading Materials DAILY - One Essay and One Short Story

    You can use the weekends to catch up on earlier readings!

  2. Occasional Poems

  3. Quotes from the Reading Material that touched me!

  4. Literature and Life and an Undying Quest for Beauty and Truth!

]]><![CDATA[Day 56: Daily Readings ]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-56-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-56-daily-readingsThu, 27 Aug 2026 06:01:29 GMT27th August

Link to Readings

Short Story: Viola in Midwinter by Marie-Helene Bertino

Essay: A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

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EXCERPTS FROM THE READINGS

Perhaps this was why people invested in religion or children or causes. To pass time pleasantly while watching something grow. (Viola in Midwinter, Bertino)

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; (A Modest Proposal, Swift)

]]><![CDATA[Day 55: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-55-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-55-daily-readingsWed, 26 Aug 2026 10:32:06 GMT26th August

LINK TO READINGS

Essay: Nature (any chapter) by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Short Story: The Forgotten by Oguz Atay

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EXCERPTS FROM THE READINGS

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE.

(Nature, Emerson)

He hasn’t changed at all; he’s just the same as when I last saw him, even his eyes are open.

(The Forgotten, Atay)

]]><![CDATA[Day 54: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-54-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-54-daily-readingsSat, 15 Aug 2026 06:27:26 GMT15th August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: Sundown at the Eternal Staircase by GennaRose Nethercott

Essay: This is Water by David Foster Wallace

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]]><![CDATA[Day 53: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-53-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-53-daily-readingsFri, 14 Aug 2026 06:25:52 GMT14th August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: The Infamous Bengal Ming by Rajesh Paramesvaram

Essay: On Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emmerson

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]]><![CDATA[Day 52: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-52-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-52-daily-readingsThu, 13 Aug 2026 06:23:59 GMT13th August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: The Bear Came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro

Essay: A Philosophy of Shame: A Conversation with Frédéric Gros by Neda Tehrani

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]]><![CDATA[Day 51: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-51-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-51-daily-readingsWed, 12 Aug 2026 06:21:47 GMT12th August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter

Essay: The Profound Power of Consistency by Srinivas Rao

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]]><![CDATA[Day 50: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-50-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-50-daily-readingsTue, 11 Aug 2026 06:22:04 GMT11th August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: Shame by Osamu Dazai

Essay: On Self Respect by Joan Didion

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]]><![CDATA[Day 49: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-49-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-49-daily-readingsMon, 10 Aug 2026 06:18:28 GMT10th August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: Mr Salary by Sally Rooney

Essay: Old not Other by Kate Kirkpatrick & Sonia Kruks

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]]><![CDATA[Day 48: Daily Readings ]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-48-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-48-daily-readingsWed, 05 Aug 2026 06:09:10 GMT5th August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: The Door by EB White

Essay: Joy Is Such a Human Madness by Ross Gay

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]]><![CDATA[Day 47: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-47-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-47-daily-readingsTue, 04 Aug 2026 06:07:32 GMT4th August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

Essay: A good conversation relaxes the mind and opens the heart by Paula Marantz Cohen

Poem: To the stranger who stole my bike Play Audio By Ethan Chua

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]]><![CDATA[Day 46: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-46-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-46-daily-readingsSun, 02 Aug 2026 06:02:25 GMT2nd August

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber

Essay: The radical implication of Luck in Human Life by David Roberts

Poem: Today by Mary Oliver

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]]><![CDATA[Day 45: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-45-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-45-daily-readingsWed, 29 Jul 2026 06:53:07 GMT29th July

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: The Swimmer by John Clever

Essay: Remember This by Joshua Foer

]]><![CDATA[Day 44: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-44-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-44-daily-readingsTue, 28 Jul 2026 06:54:09 GMT28th July

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: The third and Final Continent by Jhumpa Lahiri

Essay: How many of your memories are fake by Erika Hayasaki

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]]><![CDATA[Day 43: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-43-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-43-daily-readingsMon, 27 Jul 2026 06:25:06 GMT27th July

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: The gift of the Magi by O Henry

Essay: The Return (Reunion with homeland after exile) by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

]]><![CDATA[Day 42: Daily Readings]]>https://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-42-daily-readingshttps://dailyreadingritual.substack.com/p/day-42-daily-readingsSat, 25 Jul 2026 07:51:12 GMT25th July

LINK TO READINGS

Short Story: Kafan (The Shroud) by Premchand

Essay: Young Hunger by MFK Fisher

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