Tomorrow

Daily writing promptWhat have you been putting off doing? Why?View all responses Procrastination is such a dirty word. I prefer delay. It's the late summer phenomenon of too much to do in a garden gone wild, and frost coming on. I should make haste, and not slowly. But while my orphaned garden cries out for …

Procrastination

Daily writing promptWhat have you been putting off doing? Why?View all responses Let's not be too quick to dismiss procrastination. It can actually serve a useful purpose. I once learned from a friend in historic preservation that procrastination was one of his most valuable tools in saving landmark structures from demolition. By slowing, distracting, and …

Repent at Leisure

I know a historical preservationist in a large city east of me who always maintained that procrastination was his best weapon against developers who wished to tear down historic buildings to erect ticky-tac developments. He argued that it wasn't that all development was terrible; it was just needful to put the right package into place …