ODETTE LOVE LETTER

What are you emerging into or from? What do you bring from the dormant winter with you into our unfolding of the season ahead? At the edges of Spring, what are we learning? Today's letter is a riff on the season. Find the full experience over on Substack, where paid subscribers receive a seasonal session -- a guided practice to root down, slow into the moment, and gather creative nutrients for...

The breath shifts, and so do the seasons. In today's letter: a riff on voice and expression. For the full experience subscribe on Substack (free or paid subscriptions) and shop journals and cards, here, at Odette Press .

Creativity is a practice in collaborating, in trust building with the unknown; today's letter pulls on the threads of I don't know , inspired by a single mourning dove by the window. A reflection on sound, space, silence, stillness, with prompts for your practice. Grab a journal, pen, and settle in for practice. Shop journals and cards here , sign up for our classes , follow on Instagram ,...

Today's letter: a riff on the sunset. Movement nourishes our creative lives in the way it helps shakes things loose, to get unstuck; this week's writing is an arrival to the river again, a run, and a stark sunset. For the full experience, grab a journal from Odette Press , and subscribe to Creative Nourishment as as free or paid subscriber here . Free subscribers receive this weekly letter...

What are you meeting? What are you returning to? What are you flowing with? In today's letter, explore the shorelines of the mind, the intricacies of our inner experience, and experience the small things: the generative details of our lives. Grab a journal, write/draw/reflect, and come along for the journey. For the full experience, subscribe on Substack , follow on Instagram @OdettePress , an...

Thinking about snow fall, winter, memory, perception, citrus. For the full experience, subscribe on Substack. Shop journals and cards for your creative life over at our shop, follow along on Instagram, and share this with a friend.

A riff on city, distance, perspectives -- the optics of seeing things close and far, and caring for our creative lives. For the full experience, head over to odettepress.substack.com or shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us

The birds, often, are my teachers. Today's letter is a reflecting on winter, grounding into nature, and asking the question, "What astonishing things arise when we can slow down and pay attention?" For the full experience, shop at www.odettepress.us and odettepress.substack.com Thanks, as always, for being here.

On subterranean travel, sensing the world, and prompts for your pages. For the full experience, and to learn about upcoming writing and art making classes, subscribe to our newsletter on Substack . Follow along on IG @OdettePress, and shop journals and cards for your creative life here .

Sometimes, creating the container for my own practice seems to be: turn down the lights, turn off the phone, exist for a minute or ten in silence. What are we crafting here together in this time, moment, space? Today's letter: a riff on holding and expressing, crafting the vessels for our practice, those creative containers in body, mind, and making. For the full experience, subscribe on Subst...

A riff on senses, shorelines, swelling tides and connecting with the environment. For the full experience, subscribe on Substack: odettepress.substack.com. Shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress.

A riff on the undulations of life and creative process. For the full experience, subscribe on Substack, here . Follow along @OdettePress, and shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us

Dark, blue , dawn like midnight: the early hours are a dark blue against the horizon, today's episode is a love letter to color, early mornings, and a reflection on rising. For the full experience with links to classes and upcoming events, subscribe, free or paid, over on Substack . Shop journals and cards for your creative practice over at www.odettepress.u s, and follow along on Instagram @O...

A riff on a walk on a cold night; the warm glow of collective togetherness and effervescence. For the full experience, visit Odette Press on Substack . To shop journals and cards, including the new Heirlooms, visit www.odettepress.us

In front of fires, we may find ourselves listening: listening to stories and those who are sharing, to the shifts and sounds of meals cooking, to explanations of starlight and glacial formations, to the way the earth outside lulls itself to sleep. In today's letter, we explore a reflection on relating to storytelling, awe, and how stories make us human -- how they can dazzle and connect us, li...

Like any landscape we're traversing, anything we’re making, like anything we are collaborating with or relating to in life, writing can be a way of befriending ourselves, becoming our own companions, and noticing the depth and the horizons of our stories and celebrating what makes us human. Sometimes, it's helpful to write to the root: where did this story come from? What is it saying? Fol...

Think of the last time you deep belly laughed. Or a moment that rocked you with grief that you felt it in your stomach. Go to that place for a minute — can you feel it? In today's letter, I'm sharing some reflections on creative practice from an embodied place, examining the role of the core within us physically and metaphorically, and sharing some prompts for your own reflective practice....

A riff on trees, walking, writing, finding center and expanding out. What happens when we emerge out of our circles of comfort? For the full experience, visit Odette Press on Substack , on Instagram , or shop journals and cards online.

What are you rooted into? What people, places, tastes, songs are you anchoring into? What are you rooting for or aiming towards? What roots are nourishing you? Today, a reflection on seeds, metaphors of plants, and the conversation between inward seasons and expanding out into the world. For the full experience (links for classes, etc) head to odettepress.substack.com | shop journals and cards her...

I want to tell you about the delight I feel discovering a fig tree (and other reflections on walking, writing, and mapping through life). In this note, I talk about figs, tracking, growing, and prompts for now and then, as we tune into the past, present, and the future. For the full calendar of experiences, click here. Subscribe on Substack (free or paid options) and shop journals and cards for yo...

Imagine this: there is a spotlight on a piece of cord. Cord, like the soft rope used to hang clothing from the line, cord like the line used on boats and sails. Soft, beige. It hangs in the air, frayed on either edge — vignette of shadow surrounds the center of the cord, revealing individual fibers, radial threads fanned out like rays of the sun. Up close, gathered together, they are stronger, wov...

A reflection on this moment, this season, senses, and scent. For more, visit www.odettepress.substack.com and shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us

As humans in the creative process of life, we are looking often for balance, feeling into the places where imbalances and asymmetries are blatant. Where the salt goes, the sweet comes in, the fat and the acid, when cooking; how the breath like the sunlight rises and falls in our bodies and the seasons; where the paint goes, or how to place the graphite on the page, or how and where to erase a line...

Pleasure arrives with a glimpse of October — or rather, last week, with the sun. This week's letter is a love note to the sun, to autumn runs, and finding pleasure as a practice for returning to life. For the full experience, subscribe on Substack at odettepress.substack.com | equip your practice with tools for creative exploration at www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @OdettePre...

And other thoughts on weathering the nature of life. For the full experience, head over to www.odettepress.substack.com. Paid subscribers enjoy seasonal sessions to celebrate transitional times, prompts for practice, and the ability to comment. Follow along on Instagram @OdettePress, and of course, shop journals and cards to celebrate your creative life and the art of the everyday over at www.odet...