Learning to carry the psychological weight of gray areas, unpredictability, and plain ignorance is likely a life-long process and practice. But perhaps the more we practice dealing with the experience of not knowing, perhaps the better equipped we become to sustain ourselves through some of our greatest personal and collective periods of uncertainty and instability. What helps you carry the weight of ambiguity and the unknown?
[image description: Half a dozen hearts are surrounded by and underneath heavy inquiries that include: "What will happen with the new variants? How do we keep safe? Should I get tested? When will I see my family again? Will there be enough vaccine?", as well as a broken heart and additional question marks. Text reads: "These ambiguities and known unknowns may be the heaviest lot you've learned to carry. 5 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: "These ambiguities and known unknowns may be the heaviest lot you've learned to carry."]
#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.