It takes a lot more than three things to hold me together, but I think I can sort them into three-ish categories?

1. People.
2. Purpose.
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1. People - best quarantine partner ever ( @aemilius_heros), my online knitting group (and its associated group chat, "Unionized Llamas"), my new book club & new group chat, the group of friends I know because of @queer_spice... all big parts of keeping this extrovert functional.

2. Purpose - I was kind of losing my shit at the beginning because I wasn& #39;t feeling useful. Like, everything felt existentially pointless. But I& #39;ve reconnected with my disability community, I& #39;m doing COVID response work alongside the usual, and I& #39;m treating isolating like a job.

(The fact that this works for me does not mean it should work for everybody, or even that it& #39;s particularly healthy for me to measure my worth in usefulness. But I do, so it& #39;s working for me for now.)

3. Permission - this one& #39;s a cop-out because I couldn& #39;t think of a word for "naps" that starts with "p." But I& #39;m trying to give myself permission to nap when I need to, sit on the balcony when I need to, and otherwise attend to my physical needs. I& #39;m... getting better at it. ;)

(The fourth P, of course, is for Poodle.)