I feel sometimes like I am alternatively flailing and skating through life— words that could be considered opposite, in my case they fit my feelings. I think sometimes in order to skate, you have to flail a good bit. I think also it has something to do with the pandemic still with us. I did a cartoon this week using a made-up word: “overish.” Things have shifted in our world, and I am learning how to navigate it—hence the more frequent feeling of flailing. I have adjusted to the new over the years pretty consistently. For example, I have weathered four new editors and three new cartoon editors at The New Yorker; I love technology and always embrace it wholeheartedly. But in the last two years, change is so abrupt and not easily understandable. But we will get through it. Cartoons can help—at least some—can help, I am sure.
Love this, and the cartoon. Wish they had published it.
Thank you, LInda.