A walk under streetlights on a quiet street is one of the best places to untangle a messy day.

Days arrive in a jumble and walking puts them in order. A steady pace and a street with nothing happening on it let events come back one at a time instead of all together. You are not solving anything, you are sorting.

Keep a route you know well, twenty minutes long, for the evenings that have been too much. No podcast, since the point is to hear your own account of the day. By the time you are home the thing that was enormous at five has usually been filed under something smaller.