@AmericanAir I am a victim of the DFW Thunderstorm Debacle. I understand you cannot control the weather. But the quality of communication after we got off the plane in Little Rock has been embarrassing—especially after the crew of the original flight from Phoenix to DFW did well.
What we lose when the Bible is only on a screen:
1. You remember where the verse lives on the page and aids memorization.
2. The page shows you much more at once. You see the context, not just a few verses at once.
3. The page keeps your notes. Years from now they will still be there, in your own hand.
4. The page cannot distract you with a notification. It only asks to be read.
5. The page is something your children watch you open and they know it’s the Bible.
The screen gives much. The page gives more.
Procrastination isn’t failure, but the mind’s way of protecting what it finds most sacred.
I’ve given the same piece of advice to many of my students at Harvard, especially the ones wrestling
with creative blocks or long-unfinished projects:
“Do your chores now. Put your art off for a day.”
It usually surprises them as they expect me to say something more insistent.
But I’ve come to see procrastination differently. In my own life, the things I postpone most consistently are the ones that matter most. Procrastination, I’ve found, is not always avoidance. It is the quiet recognition that this thing, whatever it is, carries weight.
And the mind, being wise in its own way, hesitates, not because it doesn’t care, but because it does.
So I tell my students: Begin gently, sort the files, clean the inbox, and walk around the work. Let motion invite readiness. And pay attention because procrastination is a message to interpret.
Once you stop treating that delay as shame, you start to see it for what it is: A quiet kind of care.
@barrystrauss Did you look at how the Jews recruited for these revolts or the type of propaganda they used? I am aware of the numismatics but wondering about literary efforts.
@BobbyBeltTX Not comfortable at all. But I have not heard any real solutions from you either. Firing McCarthy? Fine. Fill the vacancy. Then fix the cap problem. And guarantee a Super Bowl.