Michael Brooks
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Michael Brooks
Here’s a short audio reflection from the Waking Up app:
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MO55B39?share_id=A02967D1&code=SC67B5846
https://dynamic.wakingup.com/moment/MO55B39?share_id=A02967D1&code=SC67B5846
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
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