Notes from the Hatch: Collapsing Time

Sunday, August 20, 2023

Aug 20, 2023

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Hi everyone!

I’m joining you from Barcelona—I just arrived this morning with my family, and my travel here is the inspiration for today’s gathering. I’m calling it Collapsing Time. It’s an idea that Suleika talks about sometimes in the newsletter, most recently when she was hospitalized. I’m willing to bet that all of us—even if we haven’t been hospitalized for long stretches of time—intuitively know what Suleika means when she writes about time collapsing. There are moments in our lives where time as we generally understand it seems to bend or jump or warp.

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