One place that I experience what Birkerts refers to as 'deep time,' is when I am on my daily run/walk. I have the time to re-think about the day and what happened. In doing this I am sometimes able to realize a connection or better understand a meaning or significance of an event that took place; to put the pieces together and comprehend the parts as a whole. Sometimes, after to coming to a realization or undertanding, I am able to relax about something that I once thought was much larger then it really is or worry more, after realizing that what I thought was small, affects much more then what I first believed.
One thing I would add to Birkerts definition of 'deep time,' is that whatever it is that you are examining, does not always have to be something significant and large in matter, that what we could have first percieved as insignificant at first, is now important and vise versa. What once was thought as important and vital, then becomes small and insignificant.
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