things that help:

sitting in the space of shaun tan,
showers,
strumming end of summertime songs on the guitar,
tech startups,
storyboarding drafts,
stretching,
shanghai restoration project & other chaotic soul-auditory pretties,

things:

listening to the heartbeat on the sheets of a bed with a pressed ear,
three types of banana bread,
a man found love & hot sex and vanished into the world with his not-so-secret secret, mid-aged mistress, leaving your sick mother and three younger siblings & all their bills & rent for someone else,
work,
work,
other work,
art,
pixel ink on white light,

the future is here.