http://www.lifeinpencil.com/wp/2009/07/31/everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-weeding/ Rewriting Life...One Day at a Time Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.lifeinpencil.com/wp/2009/07/31/everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-weeding/comment-page-1/#comment-128 Nikki Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:11:56 +0000 http://www.lifeinpencil.com/wp/?p=350#comment-128 As much as I love the World Wide Web, it is a particularly persistent weed in my life. Throwing up a post here and there on my blog seems trivial until I see that suddenly I’ve amassed hundreds of pages in the Word document I keep all my drafts in: pages that could have gone towards the novel(s) I’m working on. Then again, weeding is good warm-up for the larger things, right? As much as I love the World Wide Web, it is a particularly persistent weed in my life. Throwing up a post here and there on my blog seems trivial until I see that suddenly I’ve amassed hundreds of pages in the Word document I keep all my drafts in: pages that could have gone towards the novel(s) I’m working on. Then again, weeding is good warm-up for the larger things, right?

]]> http://www.lifeinpencil.com/wp/2009/07/31/everything-i-need-to-know-i-learned-from-weeding/comment-page-1/#comment-127 jennifer Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:48:16 +0000 http://www.lifeinpencil.com/wp/?p=350#comment-127 There are weeds in my inbox. Tasks I dread include calling a credit card company to sort out a mistake, going through the cybermaze of signing my kid up for an online class, writing thank you notes for birthday gifts. All these administrative chores feel like niggling burdens, when they are really obligations. Important obligations. There are weeds in my inbox. Tasks I dread include calling a credit card company to sort out a mistake, going through the cybermaze of signing my kid up for an online class, writing thank you notes for birthday gifts. All these administrative chores feel like niggling burdens, when they are really obligations. Important obligations.

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