77/100 Donna * * Donna used to hate everything and everyone. She could find complaint in the happiest of moments, and fault in the best of people. She was especially harsh on those she loved most. One day, on her way to work, she passed a homeless woman on the street. The woman was hitting herself in the head and thumping her chest and yelling ‘not worthy not worthy not worthy!’ over and over. Something made Donna stop. She stood in front of the woman and gently took the woman’s hands and calmly said to her, ‘shhhhh, stop, stop, shhhhh.’ The woman quieted. In that moment, Donna realized that running under her hatred of everything and everyone was the same shouted refrain in her own head. She vowed in that moment to also shush and stop. These days she is 82% complaint free and her hate now has more appropriate targets, when it shows up at all. She is working on finding the homeless woman’s family (her name is Martha). #100daysofcartoonheadshots #madeupbiographies #pamtoons #the100dayproject #thankyoulyndabarry #cartoon #writing * (Inspired by Lynda Barry and her (totally freaking amazing) Writing the Unthinkable workshop at the Omega Institute.)