But when you're in flow, time is infinite.

Mm.

I experience flow sometimes when I'm writing, when I'm writing fiction or nonfiction, and you're transported, and it is the wildest feeling because, like, writing is often a struggle.

So, like, four hours later, you'll look up, and the window will be dark, and you'll think, "Oh, my goodness, w- where did the time go?" And the only other time that that happens for me is when I'm traveling.

And generally, when I'm in nature, my husband and I love to kayak, so we kayak a lot, and whenever we're traveling, we try to find a place to go kayaking, and that, for me, is when everything really does slow to the most basic, beautiful sense of, you know, your paddle strokes, the water, the sounds, and it's just...

I can feel myself now thinking-

And tell me what happened there and what flavor of awe this was.

Yeah, that was ama- it, I cannot recommend the Philippines enough as a destination, and it always amazes me that more people don't go.