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Pandemic journal: Day 39

Therapy homework: A list of what makes me feel cared-for or loved.

The pandemic diet: guilt, self-care, frustration, exhaustion, uncertainty, rage, and reading the news.

There's a metaphor here about mending and friendships, if you try.

It's getting harder to brain. And we're settling into a kind of routine, which is good and bad.

I have good friends. I have a body that moves. I have a whole list of foods I want to …

A list of good things -- to counteract a tired, sluggish state of being.

I make a list of all the things I *could* be doing during shelter-in-place, from writing books to making pickles.