The difference between ‘puttering’ and actually ‘doing’ something is that puttering has no real agenda, no objective, no fixed start or completion.  Puttering exists in a limbo of mild activity crossed with a neutral state of being.

To have the time and space to putter about is therapeutic.  Puttering about gives the putterer a chance to turn things over in the mind.  There is a gentle lack of concentration whilst puttering that gives freedom to thoughts and musings in a way that effort on a focussed task does not. 

And sometimes this state of puttering often results in — well, results.  You step back from your musings and voila, the closet is organized, or the tool shed is clean.  Ideas, solutions and resolutions that were maybe percolating in the background of your mind, move to the forefront in a more concrete form. Yes, I think a bit of magic occurs when we engage in activities without an agenda, without an objective, without a deadline. 

And, on that note, Dear Readers, I will be taking two weeks off at Christmas — you know, just so’s I can putter about.  There will be no posts December 25, or January 01.  Funny how those holidays both fall on Sundays this year.

Created, with an agenda and a deadline, is this week’s scenario at  Contentment is for Cows.

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