Virtue	Feb	Mar	Notes
Pleasure: Adventure Plan and take an international vacation late Q3/early Q4.	🙁	🙁	It’s beginning to look like day trips are off the agenda, let alone vacations. I’m just waiting to see what happens next.
Pleasure: Recharge Read 78 books	🙂	😐	Read a little, but not much • Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom • How to Treat People • Ayurveda • The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda • Daily Rituals • Lawson’s Bend •
Friendship: Friends I love meeting new people, and as I am friendly and outgoing, I make friends easily.	😐	😐	I’m chatting online, but I miss talking to people. DB probably misses me talking to other people too.
Friendship: Creatures My creatures are happy and healthy and find my garden a haven.	😐	🙁	Pretty Girl took a turn for the worse, and we had to euthanise her. I’m not sure why, but I’m not seeing as many other creatures in the garden either.
Friendship: Contribution I share my knowledge, time, and money with those who need it. • Develop a charitable works programme.	😐	😐	Katy mentioned she missed one of her favourite bloggers, and hoped she was ok. I’m sorry if my break worried you.
Beauty: body I enjoy exercising my lean, healthy 59 kg body several times a week. • Eat < 5g of salt and sugar per day. • Walk 10,000 steps per day. • Sleep 8 hours each night.	😐 68.8 kg	😐 68.7 kg	Got as low as 67.9 kg (lowest since July 2018) and as high as 69.9 kg. All up a win. Have an appointment to have a skin cancer cut out of my face.
Beauty: garden My garden is peaceful (lush and abundant, providing habitats, weather protection and a mystical threshold) Q1: plan garden and start landscaping. Q2: finish landscaping and start planting. Q3: nurture and enjoy. Q4: nurture and enjoy.	🙂	😐	We’ve done a little garden maintenance, but no planning. Everything is shutting down so there’s next to nothing we can do to move the project forward.
Beauty: home I live in a comfortable home that soothes my soul.	😐	😐	I’ve had good days and bad days. Some days I do more than I’ve done for ages, other days I just make it worse.
Wisdom: growth I learn and grow every day. • Visit a historically or culturally significant venue or event each month.	😐	😐	I stopped watching/listening to the news, except for once a day. I started deleting every email that includes covid variations in the subject. I feel less panicky and recommend you do the same.
Wealth: time Turn the computer off by 7 pm.	🙂	🙂	Managing to turn off the computer, and more recently, open a book instead.

March 2020 is mostly missing from my journal, aside from research notes and sad stickers.

I wrote four short stories of 19,237 words. Plus spent many hours learning Photoshop and managed to produce a decent cover for the first short story I plan to publish.

Let’s all hope April 2020 is better than March was.

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