What the heck is the present moment anyway?

A quick dispatch from an over-full life.

I find the passage of time fascinating. In the past 5 weeks, I have been in 11 different cities, all of them requiring hours of driving from my rural town. In between most of those trips, I have returned home to both work in my clinic and on this newsletter. This unusually hectic schedule has occasionally helped me become very aware of the present moment, but mostly it seems like I’ve been struggling hard to find it. Sitting in a hotel room as I write this, getting ready to go to the next town, I certainly feel time flowing by.

It turns out that’s how most of us consider the passage of time - that it flows past us. However, many physicists prefer to think of time as laid out in its entirety, as Paul Davies wrote in Scientific American, a timescape, analogous to a landscape – with all past and future events located there together. His article is interesting info from the world of physics but  I don’t find it helpful to understand what the present moment actually is and how I can access…