Today's Observation

A thing I have found is very calming and helps me figure things out is the recitation of facts. Collecting data about whatever issue is troubling, and writing those things down in a list, and then reading that list out loud does something helpful to the brain meats. I'm not sure if it's the repeated contact with the information, or processing it in various ways, or just spending time being calm and as objective as possible about whatever is troubling that does the magic bit, but it does seem...