ODETTE LOVE LETTER

A thought arrives and leaves. A wave. A day arrives and leaves. A tide. A day is one thousand, four hundred, forty minutes; of those minutes, some twenty thousand breaths . How to slow down the mind for conscious thinking? Drop into your body. Slow your breath. Today's letter? A reflection on thoughts and water. - If you’re in New York City, and curious to spark creative practice, an invitatio...

In today's letter, some grounding with intention and ritual. As the season shifts, I’m thinking about reverence, severing ties with the time of summer, the days of long sunlight and heat, hot and baring down. What do you bring yourself back to? What mundane acts are you grounding into? What’s your aim or intention for now, and the season ahead? For more, dive into Journaling for Intention , a...

The days that start with movement outside remind me of the hum of living. Feet on the ground — calm, serene, alive — I breathe fresh air into mind, body, and lungs, opening to the day. Today, a reflection on running, writing, and breathing. Subscribe: OdettePress. Substack.com Shop: OdettePress.us Workshops: linktr.ee/OdettePress Instagram: @OdettePress

To see the bird and to write, each, are the ways I say to life, let me feel my own quickening heartbeat. In today's newsletter: a riff on grief and joy, birds of prey, and late summer season. SHOP: odettepress.us SUBSCRIBE: odettepress.substack.com FOLLOW: instagram.com/odettepress ONE ON ONE: kellyodettelaughlin.com/creative-life-sessions

Any act of creativity is a courageous one. In this week, a reflection on movement, meditation, and expressing, along with prompts, practices, and this week's classes. Try ⁠Journaling for Courage ⁠ Subscribe at OdettePress. Substack.com Follow at @OdettePress Shop at OdettePress.us Workshops at linktr.ee/odettepress

There’s a kind of divinatory, alchemical quality to the poetic, the prose, the lyric — a vibratory mysticism infused with mystery and depth, asking us to focus and tune into the unknown. Today's letter, a riff on lyrics, writing, and music in creative practice. Subscribe: OdettePress. Substack.com Shop: OdettePress.us Follow: @OdettePress Workshops: Linktr.ee/OdettePress

Voice, in some form, has always given me a channel, been the ground for the flow of creative expression. In today's newsletter, a riff on voice, a reminder of our creative power through expressing and mindful prompts to reflect, sense, and slow down. Subscribe: odettepress.substack.com Workshops: linktr.ee/odettepress Shop: odettepress.us Follow: instagram.com/odettepress

A revisit to last year's most popular essay, Bittersweet, and an exploration into baking, life, and creative/contemplative practice. Subscribe on Substack: OdettePress. Substack.com Sign up for workshops: linktr.ee/OdettePress Shop online: www.odettepress.us Follow on Instagram: @OdettePress

Morning is blue, gray, or hovering somewhere in between. Bird calls, blue days, daylight. Blue — the color of horizons, throat center, communication. The color of bird wing, Sunday, ocean. Blue the bright spark of the bluejay who comes and calls. Sometimes shout, sometimes softer, singing a loud song for food, for mate, for protection, to punctuate morning and evening; other calls, quiet, a whispe...

On roses, oceans, memories, Odette, stories, landscape and history. This week, we're celebrating 6 years of Odette Press. For the full experience: https://odettepress.substack.com Shop journals and cards: www.odettepress.us Sign up for workshops: https://linktr.ee/odettepress

A reflection on ancestral ties, memory, and the creative tides of life for this July season. For the full experience: https://odettepress.substack.com Shop journals and cards: www.odettepress.us Sign up for workshops: https://linktr.ee/odettepress

Practices to tend and cleanse. What writing and walking and breathing can teach are ways to tend and befriend our inner worlds. To build a home, set the intention and return, and to welcome in your experience like a guest , to tend and strengthen, to fold and refold, to reform. May we welcome ourselves like our own friends. Shop journals: www.odettepress.us Follow: @OdettePress Subscribe: OdettePr...

Curiosity is the river we can step into. Wonder, a current. It draws me out of mind, out of the apartment. Into the city and body. With curiosity, an invitation to open. An invite in for the sensate experience: city, noise, smell, sweat, infinite sensation. Steps to the train. Steps to the park. Rhythms in the city. Today's newsletter is a reminder for presence with practice. Subscribe on Subs...

...through sensing. In today's letter, a practice of place and noticing. If your day had a smell, a color, a line, shape, what would it be? Join in for this month's classes. Sign up here . Subscribe on Substack , shop online , and follow on Instagram @OdettePress

Often the practice of birdwatching, or taking in any art, or any part of the nature of life, is turning our attention. In this letter, an examining of depth in practice, a season on the edge of summer, Turrell sky pieces, and looking for birds. For the full experience, subscribe at OdettePress. Substack.com, shop at www.odettepress.us or follow on IG @OdettePress

In today's letter, a riff on crepes, awareness, creativity, and delicious existence. A reflection on making from what is available, and not taking them for granted. And a recipe for a curious writing practice. Curious about journaling and meditation? Sign up for Cultivating Curiosity . Subscribe on Substack . Follow on Instagram . And shop Odette Press .

A riff on walking, presence, noticing, films, that which is simple and complex, that which we are curious about, and cultivating awareness. Sign up for Cultivating Curiosity [we start June 3] become a free or paid subscriber on Substack [paid subscribers, Cultivating Curiosity is included in your membership] and shop journals and cards over at www.odettepress.us Curious about the Odette Press proc...

To linger longer in the details is an opportunity — a gift savor life and do so slowly. Look wide to the bird, the branch, the blue sky, the thickening leaves, and breathe in, taste the details, notice the broad strokes, the fields of colors, feel the feelings, the tides and horizons. Savor the texture and flavor. Lick the plate of life clean. What do you taste, see, smell, savor, wonder? What do...

Creative process is a practices of making contact, and being in conversation with life. We root our attention down, and become strengthened us as we push up from the soil of our existence. Today's letter is a reflection on making contact, with prompts for your writing practice.

Today's letter: a reflection on writing and meditating, on distractions and picking up the path again, and sitting in community. Do you want to generate inspiration and build confidence in your journaling practice? Let’s write. Sign up for Build Your Journaling Practice Sunday, May 5 at guesthouse by good neighbor , or for the online version on Wednesday, May 8. Bring a journal! Subscribe on S...

What creatively hydrates you? By the water, I shift and swell, settle into relaxation — a momentary meeting with joy, contentment, relief, grounding. Today's letter is a riff on rivers and waters, and finding the flow in our creative practice. Stick around for prompts at the end. Subscribe on Substack , shop Odette Press here , or share this with a friend. Thanks for being here.

This week, tune to the ground. What steady steps are you making? What’s growing? What are you paying attention to? In a walk around the city, everything unfolds. Today's letter is a riff on spring unfolding, warming up, and playing with pacing -- when we move fast, and when we go slow. For the full experience, subscribe on Substack. If you enjoy these letters, or benefit from this writing and...

I’ve written repeatedly about arriving to the seasons here: how to enter into winter , savor summer , what the autumns of our lives teach us about the leaves falling to the ground, and what we do to emerge slowly, unhurried, into a season like spring . Today's letter is equal parts love letter to earth as it is a welcome into the Odette Press world. Learn more about my teaching practice and wo...

Welcome, April. Today's letter is a reflection on balance, Spring, and taking care. Included: some prompts for practice, so grab a journal, and open up to a new page. We're grounding into the season. For the full experience, subscribe over on Substack . Free subscribers receive this newsletter in full, with links to classes and upcoming events. Paid subscribers receive more -- audio guides...

Today, an invitation into the sunlight, the season, the soil, the slow things unfurling and a riff on trusting the creative process. For the full experience, subscribe on Substack , follow on Instagram , and of course, shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us Curious about my work and teaching practice? Visit my website for more.