Vanessa Simões

I'm Vanessa. When the lights go out, I start connecting things. Something a friend said last week fits with a podcast I heard months ago, and together they explain something that happened to me years back. I wanted to sleep, but I didn't want to lose any of it. So I'd lie there for hours holding on to all of it, and drag myself through the next day.

One night I wished I could see it all laid out in front of me, every thought and how it connects to the rest. So we built it. Nothing gets lost now. My mind was never the problem, I just needed to see it.