Dawdling and Puttering


As some of you already know, this is one of my favorite quotes:

Imagination needs moodling — long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
—Brenda Ueland

I’m not a hammock person, but happy dawdling and puttering? Oh, yes!

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10 Responses to Dawdling and Puttering

  1. Most of my days are of puttering. But plenty can be done as one putters about.
    Coffee is on

  2. Ann Thompson says:

    I love it. I’m very good at dawdling and puttering

  3. tammy j says:

    it’s wonderful. it’s what makes life worth living I think.
    I wouldn’t know how to be ‘driven’ like some people are in retirement.
    maybe that’s important to them. but I much prefer puttering and dawdling too.

  4. I’m good at those things but they make me feel guilty for doing them.

    • Jean says:

      A lot of us have grown up being told it’s being lazy and is a bad thing to do. I chucked that idea long ago. 🙂

  5. Angel says:

    I’m one of the Queens of dawdling & puttering. Creativity isn’t a necessity, but sometimes it happens accidentally on purpose. Takes someone asking about something I’ve done to make me realize that it might be valuable…

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