My day isn’t going particularly well, so I feel that I need to take a pause, yes, right in the middle of my unhappy and unproductive working day, and write about the practices and things that keep me afloat at times like these.

Water: looking at it, listening to it, swimming in it

Walking

My children

Natural world

Writing

Music

Breathing, especially breathing through vulnerability

Reading books

Exercise

Being held (something I don’t really get)

Drinking (not in the meaning alcohol, just the action of sipping carbonated water, or tea or just plain water)

Drawing