Often times, slowing down and being still, with nothing in particular to accomplish, can come with noticing just how noisy we already are inside ourselves. So that you can slow down when you need to, what helps you be with the busy parts of your interior world?
[image description: A heart with a consternated facial expression stands facing the viewer and holding its hands up to its head, palms pressed to ears. Above the heart is a giant thought bubble with a colorful and chaotic jumble of lines and patterns. Within the jumble and highlighted in red is the word "QUIET!!!!!" Text reads: "It can take a ton of effort to slow down. 4 MAY 2020"]
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: "It can take a ton of effort to slow down." Comments that follow read: "Seriously!! ...and I were talking about the irony of trying to do the work to do less work — in this case reading a book on doing more — in order to do less. Ha!", "My fear about slowing down is concern that I won't get back up to previous speed. And then I remember...maybe I don't want to get back up to that previous speed...and then I relax and shift down a gear," "An object at rest tends to stay at rest," and "Right?! Brain like a pinball machine over here!" Anna responds to the last comment, "Yeah."]
#MindfulHearts retrospective.
On this day 2020.
On this day 2019.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.
On this day 2020.
On this day 2019.
Celebrating two years of daily cartoons.