Reassuring Places

This is a comment by Dancing Liza to an earlier post. I thought I'd copy it here, so we can answer the question, if we chose to:

I was reading a writing magazine the other day and they did a feature asking writers if they had any "essentials" they kept in their writing spaces and/or any pre-writing rituals that helped encourage them to get down to business. For example, one man kept a little aquarium on his desk that he said helped him feel so tranquil, he could just shut off the rest of the w...