Squiggle & Heart No. 8 - Revisited
The day has come, the final revisitation! For the lovely bunch of you just joining me, thanks to
’s generous shout-out this week, you’ve arrived as I am completing a series of revisit-posts of the first 8 issues of my free Wednesday comic, Squiggle & Heart. If you enjoy simple, earnest, mental-health-oriented cartoons, please have a look through the archive!Now that we have completed releasing Famous Cast Words Season 2, I will have time to pump out some new ones (she says, optimistically). But for now, here is Squiggle & Heart No. 8 Revisited:
I’m someone who has never felt at home in groups. That has emerged as inner conflict in my life - a struggle between the pre-historic brain that craves belonging in order to survive, and my natural tendency to prefer solitude. I seem to both reach for and push away being a part of anything, organizing the world into groups of “cool kids,” from which I bemoan my exclusion, and feel repulsion toward joining. I’ve seen this confusion show up for me both socially and professionally.
Lately, however, I have found relaxation in that dynamic by naming myself a Benevolent Itinerant. I am slowly (with many slip ups and days of self-flagellation) understanding the value of my outsider status, traveling into one space and offering what I’ve seen in another.
The beauty of belonging nowhere is, if you can release to it, you just might be able to belong everywhere.