It's good to have a list of things in your back pocket that (almost) always make you feel like everything is going to be okay.

That's because having a list of things that usually work is a good antidote to a world full of things that don't work. We're not babies around here, we don't expect everything to be easy for us. We understand it's a complex, chaotic world out there, and part of the fun is fixing things that are broken and making good things even better. 

Sometimes life, especially when it's a creative, feeling, honest life you're trying to build, can feel like trying to do a perfect aerial loop in an airplane made out of two kites and a surfboard. While wearing boxing gloves. In a hurricane.

Or maybe that's just me.