Things -

- that help:

• Picnics
• Triscuits with brie
• Martinelli's apple juice
• Sufjan Stevens
  
• White tea-pomegranate soda
• Successful kite flying
• Creeks
• Temporary muddiness
• Swingsets
• Holding hands

- that don't:

• Insomnia
• Stars
• The interior monologue
• Hormonal imbalances
• Overcast evenings
• Expectations

          Sometimes I'm really good at thinking about things without making any contact with what's known as "reality" for long periods of time.