I was just goofing off:
So you see, imagination needs moodling — long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
–Brenda Ueland
December 21, 2022
In Case Anyone Thought…
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the quote has now described my last 10 days, moodling is what I have been doing so the world should be fine now….
The Mad Snapper to the rescue! I hope you’re starting to feel better.
Hmmm, so I guess I have finally found something I am good at!
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It was a long-gone British politician, Reginald Maudling, who praised idleness on the basis that you would find the most efficient way of doing something so you could go back to being idle.
I have a book entitled, The Lazy Way to Success. It’s the same idea. 🙂
I’m a putterer.
I moodle A LOT.
It drives my friend crazy.
She calls every day to check in on me and ask what I’m doing.
She accomplishes a million things a day.
Even on her day off she does so much.
I’ve tried to explain moodling and she said to just make a decision, complete the task and be done with it!
I tell her I’ll think about it.
LOL.
Good for you! We moodlers have to stick up for the cause. One of Robert Frost’s neighbors said Frost was the laziest person he had ever met. We’re in good company. 🙂
I have noticed how often my best ideas come when I’m slowly waking up or when I’m just standing in the shower letting the water relax me.
That’s the way it usually works. 🙂
I never heard the word moodling before but I like it.
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Too funny! I like it. A lot.
🙂
Let us remember that idling guy who noticed an apple fall from a tree and formulated the laws of gravity. (If that story is even true.)
I don’t know about the apple, but I’ve read that his mother wasn’t pleased that he didn’t help on her farm. He was there for two years when the University of Cambridge closed because The Great Plague came back. That’s when he developed his theories on calculus, optics, and the law of gravitation. We should all be that lazy. 🙂