How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
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How We Spend Our Days Is How We Spend Our Lives: Annie Dillard on Choosing Presence Over Productivity
In her book The Writing Life, Annie Dillard makes the case that how we spend our days is how we spend our lives. I would extend this to how we measure our days, too: how we measure our days is how we measure our lives. When we measure our days by how much we’re able to accomplish in them, and we’re not careful, we measure the sum of our days this w
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