We maybe really do just need lots and lots of reminders that we are doing our best, learning, growing, and being resilient through the lifelong human arts of failure, breakdown, trauma, grief, sorrow, and transformation. What helps you keep going in the final stretch? What helps you begin again when it's still hard?
[image description: A larger heart stands with mouth open as if speaking and holds the hand of a smaller heart that is looking downward and frowning slightly. Text reads: "Just to be clear, this is still hard, and you're still doing great. 17 AUGUST 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: "Just to be clear, this is still hard, and you're still doing great." A comment responds: "But it feels like it's getting harder..." Anna replies: "In ways it certainly is."]
#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.