'woolgathering' is correct and usable in written English.
The term is used to describe daydreaming or abstract thinking, usually while absentmindedly wandering or taking part in a mundane activity. For example, "As I did the dishes, I found my mind wandering, and soon I was woolgathering about the future."
He had worked for Hanuman Books, the company that published Smith's little memoir, "Woolgathering".
In truth, at an earlier point in our relationship Con Ed had demanded a deposit of $98.05 from me, the result of a month or two of woolgathering on my part... Today I got a Con Ed bill with a love note attached... "YOU HAVE AN EXCELLENT PAYMENT RECORD WITH US THANK YOU".
No, for woolgathering and armchair voyaging, preferably in front of a fire, I would be most happy with any of our favorites.
How then, she went on, could Bates encourage those same children to risk "moments of woolgathering, daydreaming, improvisation" that she viewed as an essential component of a liberal arts education?
IT'S fireplace season, the time to hunker down, cozy up and do some weekend woolgathering.
Mr. Cavenaugh's Tony, a former member of the territorial Jets gang, has a goofy, woolgathering and slightly shy side that helps explain his subsequent ill-advised behavior.
So Walter's woolgathering was given a root cause; his father's death, when he was seventeen, which had forced him to give up his plans to travel and instead take a job at a Papa John's pizzeria.
In the face of twenty-five years of bloodshed, mayhem, criminality, and the universal human pastime of ruination, I have clung fiercely to Occam's razor, seeking always to keep my solutions unadorned and free of conjecture, and never to resort to conspiracy or any kind of prosecutorial woolgathering.
In terms of narrative content, the work is maddeningly coy — unless you fancy Jungian woolgathering about archetypes and suchlike — but it is so well designed and painted that, once you have started looking, resistance gives way.
(Woolgatherings of a Castaway on a Stalled I.R.T. Express who has Finally Been Forced to Read one of those Full-Page Marboro Bookshop Advertisements in the "Times") Capsule descriptions of the following titles, originally &250 to 29 cents: Small-Town Girl. Small-Town Girl
By Burton Bernstein The New Yorker, June 12 , 1965P. 122 (Woolgatherings of a Castaway on a Stalled I.R.T. Express who has Finally Been Forced to Read one of those Full-Page Marboro Bookshop Advertisements in the "Times") Capsule descriptions of the following titles, originally &250 to 29 cents: Small-Town Girl.
