Life Points Gained
A break from social media
Hope the holiday was kind to you and yours. I took a full break from social media and focused my energy on family and friends. I drew cartoons offline. I baked cookies and cinnamon bread.
Important learning: Time off social media is life points gained.
Ready as I’ll ever be to face whatever the new year brings. And I’m excited to share what I’ve been cooking up.
Wishing you and all of us the best for 2026. Thanks for reading and being here.
Art description: From a 6-panel comic strip about a cartoonist taking a break from social media and not feeding the algorithm. The comic shows a cartoon figure with a hair bun, baking cookies for an elephant, not an algorithm. In the end, she is fine and learns that “time off social media is life points gained.” Original artwork by Connie Sun, cartoonconnie, 2026.
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Thanks for both taking care of yourself and for just being your self.
If everything goes ok, I'm taking advantage of one last unusually warm January here, sitting outdoors somewhere without distractions and pray and breathe and plan for the year. I'm not big on planning because too many times I plan something, get excited, and then a major event happens and blows my plans all to pieces. Trauma all over again.
The one thing I have done is made little art and writing bags that I can "grab and go" to either take with me or use at home without too much brain energy needed. (The writing bags hold Rocketbooks, so with my phone and a little spray bottle and cloth for erasing I can have unlimited pages until my ink runs out, so yes I keep extra pens around, also use them for sketching.) That way the creative part of myself hopefully has permission to make space each day no matter what happens...no matter what anyone says or doesn't understand the need to create daily.
Enough about me! Sorry thinking out loud online again.
Blessings!!!
This is very sweet. Blessings.