Bless the Messy

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Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart

notes on creating and living for yourself

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Jess Bird
Aug 03, 2023
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a watercolor scan from my sketchbook in 2018

Had I not created my whole world I would certainly have died in other peoples. -Anais Nin

I’ve always lived in other worlds.

Mostly they are the ones I create in my mind. But I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older that I live daily in everyone else’s. Somewhere about six years ago I wanted the spaces of my mind to be more aligned with my reality, and so I’ve been slowly dismantling the world I knew and creating the one I want to live in.

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