In case you or anybody in your life needs this reminder:

First, breathe. Meditate. Journal. Dance. Hydrate. Get enough rest. If you’re an artist, CREATE.

And I couldn’t help quoting this also, because it’s startlingly insightful, yet obvious — once you see it.

“The left seems chaotic because the right reaches toward the past, and there’s only one past,” Barnes said. “But there are infinite possibilities for the future.”

Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. Butler by Tananarive Due on the occasion of Trump’s first inauguration and sadly only more relevant today.