Cyclokairos
In 'Saving time' Jenny Odell distinguishes between two sorts of time: chronos and kairos . The former is “clock time”, the type of time that rolls on unimpeded, the one used to measure how quickly something can be achieved, the one that ensnares us in our work. The latter describes “transcendental moments”, and it is the number of these you experience that Odell argues mean more than how long or short your life is. I chanced a canal towpath and a few bridleways this weekend. Optimistic: February was a dryish one, but April has been wet. The section of towpath was a new one for me. I've ridden the Stratford-upon-Avon canal between Lowsonford and Wotton Waven, but no lower. Jumping on at Wilmcote and heading north, things looked promising: And then they didn't: A little weaving, a little walking. What did I expect? The winter was wet, and spring has hardly got going. Little sun, little warmth, plenty of precipitation. A quiet strip of towpath though with no one else to
