Hearing encouraging words and feeling connected to others in a shared struggle can at times help us to make it through hard times. What helps you to keep going?
[image description: Two hearts with forlorn facial expressions sit at opposite ends of a corridor surrounded by coronavirus particles. Text reads: "31 MARCH 2020 In case anyone could use a reminder: This is HARD. Keep going. You're doing great."]
Throughout the pandemic, I have posted messages on my Facebook wall that I needed to hear myself or that I imagined others may be needing to hear. Again and again, these messages spurred collective online processing of a range of challenges and lows and bright spots of living through the pandemic. This series of cartoons is intended to reflect on and illustrate some of the process of dealing with life by leaning into the intersection of technology and community. |
[image description: Screenshot of a Facebook status that reads: "In case anyone could use a reminder: This is HARD. Keep going. You're doing great." Four comments read: "You, too, Anna," "Same and thank you," "You too my love," and "I needed this, thank you."]
#MindfulHearts retrospective.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
On this day 2019.
On this day 2018.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.