I feel invigorated and renewed.

Renewal has a reputation problem. It gets pictured as a mountain sunrise, a week away, a new year — as though it needs machinery.

Most of it is smaller. Cold water on your face at three in the afternoon. A window cracked open on a bus. Ten minutes outside without your phone, and the day resets a few degrees.

None of that fixes anything. It interrupts, and interruption is often what you actually needed — the loop broken, not the problem solved. There is one available to you in the next hour.