By my standards, then, the effort that Cherita and I have invested in creating, developing and launching this web site qualifies as work.

In order to emphasize the interconnectedness of these categories, though, I'd like to add a new thought, now.

Even though I think that "Work" activities qualify, from one point of view, as "means to ends," I also think it can help to cultivate the ability to psychologically experience such "Work" activities as "ends in themselves."

This doesn't mean that such activities then cease to serve as "means to ends." Nor does it then convert them into activities that qualify primarily as "Play."

Even so, it can do a person a world of good to learn to cultivate a sense of "Play" in one's work.

In this connection, the book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, has, for me, proven to be enormously insightful. You can read more about this book, and even order it, here.