ABSTRACT
In Deep Travel, time becomes a stretchable moment. Time is maybe the most beckoning and yet, curiously, at this point the least explored part of Deep Travel. The "flow of time" washes away many events, leaving behind a residue that itself continues to shrink, recede, pale, and grow ever fuzzier. Noticing time in its many day-to-day aspects is in fact easier to do than it may sound. It's a way of gaining a more precise, vigorous, and less pallid "time vocabulary," so to speak, and for present purposes it does a lot to help us get even more out of Deep Travel. It's a framework that persists from generation to generation. It's robust and long-lasting because, as James Hartle says, "our powerful sense that there is a 'now' and that time 'flows' from the past, through the present, to the future has survival value.
