How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

— Annie Dillard, ’The Writing Life’, 1989

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives