Thank you to your friend for her wise words. Do please get more regular rest. Lack of good sleep is one of the first things that causes brain deterioration, and we so dearly need your wisdom and knowledge right now. But not at the expense of your health. While I miss your words when you take the evening off, I am comforted in knowing…
Thank you to your friend for her wise words. Do please get more regular rest. Lack of good sleep is one of the first things that causes brain deterioration, and we so dearly need your wisdom and knowledge right now. But not at the expense of your health. While I miss your words when you take the evening off, I am comforted in knowing you are getting some much deserved sleep and will be fresher and wiser for it the next day. Sweet dreams.
I agree 100% but don't really know what to do when so much news drops so late. Have you noticed that really key stuff comes down just before midnight? that's a deliberate tactic, and I'm determined not to let them get away with it.
In airplanes they always say to put your oxygen mask on first. You are worthless if you pass out trying to help your seatmate get theirs on first. No matter what is going on in the world, or in your community, if you do not care for yourself first, you will become of little use to the rest of us.
New studies on Alzheimer’s and dementia note that 6-8 hours of sleep EACH night is critical to helping our brains heal and function well. And there is no such thing as making up for lost sleep by sleeping 15 hours a few nights each week.
So you will have to make a decision on what is truly important to you, for the long term, not just the short term.
We will adjust.
We will be happy with whatever you choose, because we will have your wisdom and knowledge for the long term. That is so much more important, at least to me, than having your wisdom six different ways each day for now.
I have learned so much about my country from you these last 5 months. I have gained so much perspective on what is going on in the world right now from your weekly videos. Yes, I love your daily letters to us, and look forward each morning to reading them. But it wouldn’t matter to me if I read day old, or even 2 day old items about their crazy antics. Heck, when you give us a lecture some of the stuff you tell us is several hundred years old!
What I cherish is your astute perspective, your ability to put together disparate items into a coherent package so I can see their crazy antics from a different and better point of view.
What would pain me most is to lose access to your long view, your amazing understanding of our history, and your total joy in sharing it with us.
Right now you write us a daily letter. You prep for and give us 2 hour-long video lectures each week. You ask us a thought-provoking question each weekend and read and respond to our replies. You are starting to write another book. You are creating a new course for the fall semester. And soon you will be getting ready, and then teaching, several classes at BC each week, giving tests, reading papers, etc.
That schedule would overwhelm most people. We do not need you to save the world, even though I know it really needs saving right now. What we need is wisdom, calmness, clear thought, and the perspective to know we will also come out of this one, even as horrible a mess as it is right now, just as you have shown us, this country has done several times before.
So take the time, each and every night, to get at least 6 hours of sleep. The news will wait a few hours, or days. It is not going anywhere. And neither are we.
Good for you. Another deliberate tactic is Trump's recurring streams of Friday Night Massacres. The man has no historical knowledge so he doesn't have a clue about what Nixon did; probably thinks a Watergate is a golf hazard on the ninth fairway. But he knows Friday's a good time to roll out a live grenades hoping the press won't be watching. He'll be AWOL at one of his clubs over the weekend, of course, so he won't have to face the music until Monday morning. So, if he's going to do something really hideous, like sacking Anthony Fauci for insubordination or promoting Jared to Prince Consort for extraordinary service to country, expect a Friday midnight sneak attack. Just sayin.
Thank you to your friend for her wise words. Do please get more regular rest. Lack of good sleep is one of the first things that causes brain deterioration, and we so dearly need your wisdom and knowledge right now. But not at the expense of your health. While I miss your words when you take the evening off, I am comforted in knowing you are getting some much deserved sleep and will be fresher and wiser for it the next day. Sweet dreams.
I agree 100% but don't really know what to do when so much news drops so late. Have you noticed that really key stuff comes down just before midnight? that's a deliberate tactic, and I'm determined not to let them get away with it.
In airplanes they always say to put your oxygen mask on first. You are worthless if you pass out trying to help your seatmate get theirs on first. No matter what is going on in the world, or in your community, if you do not care for yourself first, you will become of little use to the rest of us.
New studies on Alzheimer’s and dementia note that 6-8 hours of sleep EACH night is critical to helping our brains heal and function well. And there is no such thing as making up for lost sleep by sleeping 15 hours a few nights each week.
So you will have to make a decision on what is truly important to you, for the long term, not just the short term.
We will adjust.
We will be happy with whatever you choose, because we will have your wisdom and knowledge for the long term. That is so much more important, at least to me, than having your wisdom six different ways each day for now.
I have learned so much about my country from you these last 5 months. I have gained so much perspective on what is going on in the world right now from your weekly videos. Yes, I love your daily letters to us, and look forward each morning to reading them. But it wouldn’t matter to me if I read day old, or even 2 day old items about their crazy antics. Heck, when you give us a lecture some of the stuff you tell us is several hundred years old!
What I cherish is your astute perspective, your ability to put together disparate items into a coherent package so I can see their crazy antics from a different and better point of view.
What would pain me most is to lose access to your long view, your amazing understanding of our history, and your total joy in sharing it with us.
Right now you write us a daily letter. You prep for and give us 2 hour-long video lectures each week. You ask us a thought-provoking question each weekend and read and respond to our replies. You are starting to write another book. You are creating a new course for the fall semester. And soon you will be getting ready, and then teaching, several classes at BC each week, giving tests, reading papers, etc.
That schedule would overwhelm most people. We do not need you to save the world, even though I know it really needs saving right now. What we need is wisdom, calmness, clear thought, and the perspective to know we will also come out of this one, even as horrible a mess as it is right now, just as you have shown us, this country has done several times before.
So take the time, each and every night, to get at least 6 hours of sleep. The news will wait a few hours, or days. It is not going anywhere. And neither are we.
Good for you. Another deliberate tactic is Trump's recurring streams of Friday Night Massacres. The man has no historical knowledge so he doesn't have a clue about what Nixon did; probably thinks a Watergate is a golf hazard on the ninth fairway. But he knows Friday's a good time to roll out a live grenades hoping the press won't be watching. He'll be AWOL at one of his clubs over the weekend, of course, so he won't have to face the music until Monday morning. So, if he's going to do something really hideous, like sacking Anthony Fauci for insubordination or promoting Jared to Prince Consort for extraordinary service to country, expect a Friday midnight sneak attack. Just sayin.
Thank you😊