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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.comSign up for workshops: linktr.ee/OdettePressShop online: www.odettepress.usFollow 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 whisper song. On the nature of life, atmosphere, connection, and vocalizing.
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Thank you all for the Odette Press birthday love last week. To celebrate, enjoy 20% off journals and cards, and 20% off paid subscriptions forever through July 30. Share this letter with a friend, share your favorite parts on Instagram, or come to class. If you’re in Brooklyn, sign up for Suminagashi: Meditative Marbling Thursday at McCarren Parkhouse in Greenpoint or Tuesday at Grimm Artisanal Ales in East Williamsburg. See you there with ink, breath, paper, and water.
On roses, oceans, memories, Odette, stories, landscape and history. This week, we're celebrating 6 years of Odette Press.
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A reflection on ancestral ties, memory, and the creative tides of life for this July season.
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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.
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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.
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...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.
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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.
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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.
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A riff on walking, presence, noticing, films, that which is simple and complex, that which we are curious about, and cultivating awareness.
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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 you want to linger longer? What are you noticing?
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Today, an invitation into the sunlight, the season, the soil, the slow things unfurling and a riff on trusting the creative process.
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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 Spring ahead.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?"
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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.
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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.
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A riff on a walk on a cold night; the warm glow of collective togetherness and effervescence.
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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, like sitting in front of a fire or flame.
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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? Following the pathway of a thought process.
Today's letter centers in on writing as a practice of investigating the origins of our stories, going to the root of a thing through shapes on a page, through the inner landscape of writing.
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Mentioned in today's letter:
- Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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.
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What stabilizes and centers you?
A riff on trees, walking, writing, finding center and expanding out. What happens when we emerge out of our circles of comfort?
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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.
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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.
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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, woven, held tightly and intertwined, strong in the gathering together.
Today's letter is a riff on strength, togetherness, resilience. It touches on writing, music, and walking.
What holds you? What moves you?
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A reflection on this moment, this season, senses, and scent.
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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 away. In practice, we are looking for the center, often, tasting or sensing when something is off, and adjusting, like in meditation, adjusting our posture. In today's letter, I share some thoughts on simple pleasures to counterweigh grief in the everyday, and share some practices for being and embodying feelings on and off the page.
Mentioned in today's letter:
Taste & Write: Meditating on the Senses irl
Embodying the Artist online
Pop Up at Earth & Me irl
Pleasure Portal: Writing for Aliveness + Feeling Good online
Build Your Journaling Practice irl
also: this article on negativity bias and Buddha's Brain
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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.
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And other thoughts on weathering the nature of life.
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Attention is, at times, a wild thing: moth to a flame, river flowing through earth, sand scattered across the desert blown by gusts of wind and endless in all directions. In today's letter, I'm riffing on intentions as ways of orienting, reorienting, and refocusing. We are, of course, humans, with thousands of thoughts throughout a single day. We get into prompts for centering in on what you care about, all while tuning in to this shifting season.
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One summer, in the desert, I found myself clutching a rock -- and in today's newsletter, I'm sharing some more prompts for earthy existing, navigating life's uncertainties, and grounding down.
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Rooting into being through grounding practices is the central thread for today's letter. Find links to classes, audio and video guides for paid subscribers and more at odettepress.substack.com or shop journals and cards to celebrate the nature of life at www.odettepress. us
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Life is here, now, expressing. Today's letter -- a riff on a walk and observation -- on the nature of noticing small things and living life. Included, too, are some prompts to generate and inspire your creative practice. For the full experience, head over to Odette Press on Substack, or shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us
Feeling uninspired is part of the creative process, and forcing ourselves to constantly be making is antithetical to creative flow. In today's letter, I'm sharing with you some reflections from the studio, the kitchen, and the world along with some prompts and practices I turn to in order to generate ideas and inspiration. Hint: connecting with rest.
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Lately I've been riffing on self, identity, and being states — how we are in our lives, how we unfold and reform, and how that’s reflected and expressed in creative ways. How we shine, when we need shade, what we personally and collectively envision. In today's letter, I'm sharing some prompts for connecting with yourself, states of being, and identity through the lens of the seasons and nature. For more, visit Odette Press on Substack and in the shop, or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress.
Today's letter is a riff on the water, humanhood, place, and the ways we may undulate, strengthen, and change like a wave.
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In which we chat about creative transformations, discuss prompts for clarifying, and I share some updates to the studio, all laced with lingering reflections on baked goods, flecks of memory and chocolate. For the full experience, head over to Odette Press on Substack, shop journals here, follow on Instagram @OdettePress and of course, tell all your friends.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- bell hooks, feminism is for everybody: passionate politics
- These recipes (these on repeat and these)
Sometimes we might get caught thinking the creative process is somehow and easy going line: I have an idea, I like it, I want to do it, and therefore I will bring it into the world, and it will exist, and I will feel good about it, and it will be easy — but rarely is this linearity how things go. Today in the Odette Press newsletter, we're digging into iteration and some practical process steps for the creative process.
Mentioned in today's letter:
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson
Odette Press's fifth anniversary - use code fiveyears at www.odettepress.us for 20% off until July 31
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What feels clarifying and reviving? Water can drip, slowly, and amass into rain, fall down, envelop, hold, give space, and on the earth, it is contained. Today's letter is a reflection from a beach weekend, with prompts for hydrating your creative life.
This month, we are playing around in the waters of the internet and our creative lives: Creative Vessels is an online experience centered around tending to creative practices of creating, caring for our lives and our ideas, and practicing expression. We’ll get into practices for generating and tending to ideas in our lives and in the world, nourishing our nervous systems, and I’ll share prompts with you for reviving, refreshing, and releasing parts of your creative process. We’ll anchor into boundaries, discernment, ways of containing, and practicing creative protection. sign up here.
Odette Press turns five this week! To celebrate, we’re offering 20% off subscriptions here on Substack and 20% off journals and cards in the shop. Follow along on Instagram @OdettePress and tag us in your reflections. Thanks to everyone who's along on this journey! Here's to riding the waves of your creative life being revived along the way.
In today's letter, we're diving into the name of the Odette Press newsletter: Creative Nourishment.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- Creative Vessels, an online experience happening on July 26
- The Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Prompts and practices for tuning into food and creative experience, ways of savoring your life
- Some of the origins of Odette Press and our journals -- More on those here.
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What does caring for you and your creativity look, feel, sound, or taste like? In today's letter, we're exploring practices of care, with a summertime reflection from a favorite river.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- Map journals — my go-tos for everyday writing (standard, here) and great sturdy well made travel companions
- Seasonal Session to support your practice this summer, or Field Guides to deepen your creative connections to the nature of life
- Creative Vessels, a new class on caring for your creative practice
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We need wonder. Wonder draws us out of our habituated tendencies into the space of what we’re curious about. Awe shows us something to savor, fully, and be with. In today's letter, we're exploring awe and wonder.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- Values and Visions: Journaling for Intention for more on identifying what you love, value, and care about on the writing page or Inspiration and Ideation: Generative Journaling for practices I turn to for sparking ideas.
- The very first Seasonal Session, an hour-long guided creative session centered around writing in rhythm with the seasonal shift
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Exploring together and alone, interdependently, what can we learn? When we soften into the unknown of our inner experiences, what loving care can emerge? When we gather together in strength, what gets revealed? These are some of the questions from today's letter for the season ahead.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny O'Dell
- The very first seasonal class, 6/21 from 8-9PME EST available for paid subscribers over on Substack
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What are you curious about? What’s your creativity asking for? In this week's love letter, we're getting into creative flow, curiosity, and upcoming classes.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- Intentions, values, and visions
- Upcoming classes, like suminagashi and bookbinding
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Forward this to your curiously-minded, creative friends.
We're diving into curiosity today -- what does it mean, what does it feel like? How do we experience and express it? If you're curious about journaling, explore prompts and practices in person this Sunday in Brooklyn. Sign up for Build Your Journaling Practice or check out my collection of writing class recordings for you to explore on your own time.
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Today's letter is on grounding down into interior life, and then using creative reflection as an inspiration point for being in the world. Mentioned in today's letter:
Pema Chodron David Whyte on On Being My class recording library for discovering and deepening your journaling practice
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Today's letter is a meditation on embodying your voice. Where do you sense what it is you're trying to say? Equip your practice with journals and cards at www.odettepress.us and sign up for the full letter over at odettepress.substack.com
On writing and walking and the practices therein.
Mentioned in today's newsletter:
- Walking and Writing: Artists as Cartographers by Karen O'Rourke
- Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny O'Dell
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On the nature of grounding in colors.
This week's letter is a riff on colors, and a note to say that the Heirloom Journals are back in stock, and you can find them here. Subscribe for more over at odettepress.substack.com and tag your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress. What's a color that's inspiring you this week?
Grounding is the theme for this month and the weeks ahead -- how feeling grounded crafts a steadiness around or lives for creativity to arise. I dip into morning rhythms, practices that help me feel grounded, and a riff on what's to come.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- journals at www.odettepress.us
- online class may 3 | wise heart, growth action: writing for courage
- market may 7 | greater goods market
- in person class may 11 making journals with pockets
- online class may 16 build your journaling practice
- online class may 24 grounded in gratitude: meditation and journaling
- in person class may 26 hardcover lined notebooks at manor mill
full calendar here + class recordings
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Today I'm tying together film and the journaling pages and the journey of focusing. For more, join in for tomorrow's Spring Session. Wide Vision + Honing In: Journaling for Focus meets 4/26 live with a recording, with replays available for purchase after.
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More birds this week, the power of sound for presence, and some prompts to help you take those balanced actions in the direction of your imagination and ideas.
Mentioned in this week's letter:
- Inspiration + Ideation: Generative Journaling
- Spring Sessions
- Odette Press Journals
- Earth Day Market @ B.Willow
- On White bellbirds (YouTube)
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Creativity needs action and rest. In today's love letter, we're riffing on moments of action and moments of stillness, doing so paired with values and intentions. And you? What's an intention you're focusing on?
Mentioned in today's love letter:
- Spring Sessions (which you can sign up for here)
- Map Journals: a few in the ever-rare slate blue were just added to the shop
- How to Do Nothing by Jenny O'Dell
- More on my work/classes here and shop Odette Press
a dispatch for you from a patch of sun in San Francisco, some gratitude for this weekend's market, and some prompts to consider for your creative life.
mentioned in today's letter:
- april 12 | values and visions: journaling with intention
- april 19 | inspiration + ideation: generative journaling
- april 26 | wide vision + honing in: journaling for focus
- may 3 | wise heart, growth action: writing for courage
- women who run with the wolves by clarissa pinkola estes
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A love song to the season. Plus, some exciting announcements: we're shifting over to Substack in the coming weeks. As always, shop the full creative reflection collection over at www.odettepress.us
Mentioned in today's love letter:
- Find us at Renegade Craft in San Francisco on April 1 + 2
- april 12 | values and visions: journaling with intention
- april 19 | inspiration + ideation: generative journaling
- april 26 | wide vision + honing in: journaling for focus
- may 3 | wise heart, growth action: writing for courage
A love letter for you about kettles. Well, not exactly. What's growing, emerging, and bubbling up for you this Spring? In today's love letter, I'm riffing on creative practice, creativity as an ecology, and sharing some new chances to write and reflect together this season.
As always, tag us in your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress, and shop the full creative reflection collection over at www.odettepress.us
Mentioned in today's love letter:
- Find us at Renegade Craft in San Francisco on April 1 + 2
- april 12 | values and visions: journaling with intention
- april 19 | inspiration + ideation: generative journaling
- april 26 | wide vision + honing in: journaling for focus
- may 3 | wise heart, growth action: writing for courage
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
I'm so grateful that you're here. Thanks for reading, subscribing, reviewing, shopping, and sharing. I appreciate you.
Today's theme is a continuation on emergence. What's coming up this spring? What are the nutrients and ingredients that inspire our ideas onward? Let's dig in.
Mentioned in today's letter to you:
- grounded in gratitude: meditation and journaling on march 21
- suminagashi in person march 19 at manor mill in monkton
- most notably, new map journal colors are live in the shop! get them here
As always, follow along on Instagram @OdettePress and check out the full calendar of creative events.
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Today, today. Today's love letter is a riff on the almost-spring. The edge of emergence. Let's march our way into this new season with effort and ease - and bring our creative practice with us in the process.
Come along now:
- Join in for classes and events here (visit the calendar)
- Shop marbled goods and equip your writing and drawing
Liking this newsletter? Share it with a friend! Let's expand this creative network.
Be well, and take good care until next week.
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today's letter is a shorter one. we're letting ease lead. plus, some prompts for your practice.
mentioned in today's love letter:
- a quote on flow from dune
- this weekend's classes, including suminagashi marbling at the brooklyn brainery
- next month's online experiences, including build your journaling practice and grounded in gratitude: meditation and journaling
today's a great day to support this small business (we really appreciate you!) shop journals and cards for your easeful creative practice over at www.odettepress.us
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my muse is immersion with the environment. and you? today's letter is centered on colors and landscape, with a little bit more on the newly released line of cards in the odette on the road card collection (find those here).
mentioned in today's newsletter:
- jack kerouac's on the road
- a field guide to getting lost by rebecca solnit
- the new odette press youtube channel - watch parts of the process here.
- brand new! the on the road card collection
- map journals, heirloom journals, and spiral notebooks (and the rest of the collection at www.odettepress.us)
- workshops in the month ahead
your turn: share this with a friend! follow along on instagram @odettepress! keep writing!
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this week's newsletter comes conveniently timed with valentine's day, so we're getting into how creative reflective practice is really a practice for awareness, love, and care. and hey! if you like writing letters, you'll love the newest odette press card collection. shop the new cards here and watch the process unfold over on youtube. for all of you asking for longer process videos, now's your time!
mentioned in today's letter:
- john cage's rules for students and teachers
- last week's love letter to the ocean
- this week's writing for love class
- creative landscape: an online course in connection that starts this sunday! sign up now
as always, share your reflections or send this along to a friend who might like it too. shop journals and the new card collection over at www.odettepress.us
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We're exploring the creative waters of life with a dispatch from this week's writing (and hello from California!). How can writing practice support our fluid natures, our ebbs and flows, and make way for depths and mysteries?
Mentioned in today's letter:
- creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery and invention by mihaly csikszentmihalyi
- the creative waters of suminagashi on thursday, february 9 at b.willow and saturday, february 11 at manor mill
- creative landscape, an 8 week online experience centered around writing and embodiment and connecting to nature, starting 2/18
- of course, journals and cards for your practice: shop marbled goods at www.odettepress.us
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On writing practice as a way to embrace your life.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
- Creative Landscape: An Online Course in Connection (we start 2/18!, sign up here)
- Suminagashi classes in person (sign up here)
- Odette Press for all of your notebook needs: www.odettepress.us
How does writing support and embrace you?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we're using the lens of nature to explore creative practice and this season of winter, and I'm sharing with you the first hints of a new collection.
Mentioned in today's newsletter:
- mihaly csikszentmihalyi and his framing of creative practice from creativity: flow and the psychology of discovery
- creative landscape: an online course in connection
- on love: writing for self care and connection
- suminagashi, happening thursday, february 9 at b.willow and saturday, february 11 at manor mill
- odette press journals and cards, always available at www.odettepress.us
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Today's newsletter is a love letter to the river of the mind, the questions it asks, and ways I'm learning to love it.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- beginner's journaling, my four week online series
- in person workshops: suminagashi
- on love: writing for self-care and connection
- creative landscape: a course in caring and connection
- tools for creative reflection: www.odettepress.us
Reply to your email (for email subscribers) or tag your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress
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What's the gravity, or driving force in your writing? In today's #odetteloveletter, we're digging into journaling as a foundation, or the soil of our lives.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- This 2018 study on the positive impacts of journaling on mental and physical health
- Beginner's Journaling: A Four Week Series, which starts tomorrow, 1/11
- Our full calendar of upcoming events (including this new experience On Love: Writing for Self Care)
- And of course, shop the collection of Odette Press creative tools at www.odettepress.us
Be well out there, and happy reflecting.
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new day, new year, a new love letter. today's #odetteloveletter digs into the idea of slowing down in winter, going in. how can we infuse january with the intentional energy that you need? let's use creative practice and inner wisdom as guides this season.
mentioned in today's letter:
- journaling for intention 1/4 (online)
- journaling for intention, suminagashi: the art of meditative marbling at manor mill 1/7 (in person)
- some small wonders, the prompt from last week's newsletter (read it here)
of course, tag us in your reflections over @OdettePress or shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us
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On journaling and end-of-year reflection. Is this part of your practice? What does year-end journaling mean to you?
In this #odetteloveletter, the last of the year, we're reflecting on a practice I turn to for looking through journals without judgement, intuiting intentions and next steps, and a prompt for savoring the small things. Let's find awe and wonder in our practices.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- build your journaling practice
- journaling for intention
- beginner's journaling: a four week series
. . . .
Of course, pick up a journal at www.odettepress.us to support you in your creativity in the calendar year ahead.
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We're circling back to a familiar theme here in the #odetteloveletter landscape: cycles and seasons. There's the season of winter, the solstice approaching, holidays, birthdays, and of course, the cycles we experience inside. From the personal to the collective, seasons can support us, and we can write and reflect our way through these cycles in life. In today's letter, explore prompts for pausing, noticing, and checking in -- and read through for a very special thank you for being part of this creative community.
All inventory in the shop (at www.odettepress.us) has been updated after this month's markets, and there's still time to get your orders in.
Mentioned in today's letter:
- Not a ton! Join along for January's online and in person writing and creative experiences.
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we're celebrating the gifts of the cold dark season in anticipating of the seasonal shift into winter. Included are some prompts for reflections, an update on map journals, heirloom journals, and spiral notebooks, and notes on this weekend's upcoming events and experiences.
Of course, tag us in your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress and shop creative reflective tools over at www.odettepress.us
Mentioned in today's letter:
- Heirloom Journals, Spiral Notebooks, and Map Journals (www.odettepress.us)
- 12/17 Fadensonnen Holiday Market, Baltimore
- 12/18 Sobotanical Holiday Bazaar, Baltimore
- 12/17 - 12/18 FAD Market, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn
- "Leaves and Branches Along the Way" by Mary Oliver
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In today's newsletter, we're riffing (briefly) on world cup, and how writing practice is a way of settling into life's experiences. In the mood for creative practice? Join in for some suminagashi and bookbinding this weekend.
Mentioned in this week's #odetteloveletter:
- 12/10 suminagashi @ manor mill, monkton
- 12/10 bookbinding @ manor mill, monkton
- 12/11 greater goods @ r.house, baltimore
As always, shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us
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Today's another installment of our community constellation conversations, and what a rich one it is indeed. In this #odetteloveletter, I'm joined by Joyell of Writer in the Tub, an artist, midwife, and writer dedicated to crafting containers and ritual for creativity in connection with water. We talk process, intention, and inspiration, and Joyell shares about her thinking behind the Sojourn Journals, created in collaboration for Joyell at the Odette Press studio.
We've also got some exciting events happening this weekend (and every weekend until the end of the year!) so listen through. Folks in DC, Baltimore, and NY especially, this one's for you.
Mentioned in this week's letter:
- Joyell Arvella, Writer in the Tub (www.writerinthetub.com)
- The Sojourn Journals + Sojourn Residency
- Holiday Markets this weekend in Baltimore
- Pop up in Brooklyn with Naomi Nomi this weekend
- New restock of Spiral Notebooks and Heirloom Journals
For more visit www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress
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today we're celebrating and highlighting community and conversation with shawn chopra, founder and owner of good neighbor here in baltimore, maryland talking about his sources of inspiration, his writing practice, and how family and intentionality are threads woven into community. We recently worked together on some print and digital design pieces
if you're in the DC area, be sure to check out the good neighbor pop up at maketto in DC, where you can see some good neighbor x odette press collaborations. you can also shop odette press in person at the maker's market at maketto x good neighbor on Saturday, 11/26 and join in on saturday, december 3 for suminagashi, an in person experience.
Mentioned in this newsletter:
Good Neighbor (www.goodneighborshop.com)
Community Features here, here, and here
Suminagashi on 12/3
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Today I'm sharing some thanks and reflect on this past weekend in New York. It's market season, friends! Plan accordingly. For journals and cards and more visit www.odettepress.us and for process views, follow along on Instagram @OdettePress.
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Mentioned in today's #odetteloveletter:
11/21 Grounded in Gratitude: Meditation and Journaling (online via zoom)
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VOTE, and then find flow with the teachers, guides of your life in this week's reflection. Learn all about upcoming classes and events with Kelly, founder of Odette Press here, and equip your writing/drawing/notetaking and creative exploration with tools over at www.odettepress.us
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Let's dig into seasonality with the cycles and seasons of creative practice.
Mentioned in today's newsletter:
- Grounded Wisdom: Writing for the Senses
- Suminagashi Stationery: The Art of Meditative Marbling
- Suminagashi Basics
And of course, www.odettepress.us
Community: What's the season of your life? Your communities? Tag us in your reflections on Instagram @OdettePress and be well this week.
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How can writing bring us into connection with our felt sense and our seasonal experience? That's a great question that we'll root into a little deeper in today's newsletter. Don't forget to sign up for this weekend's class and next week's in person experience, and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress for more.
Find journals and cards for your creative endeavors at www.odettepress.us
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Let's explore in broad strokes "creative life". And, a thread for you to pull on, play around with, or write to: my creative life is made up of... Listen along, or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress for more (and find journals and cards at www.odettepress.us)
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Today's #odetteloveletter is a reflection on the shift of seasons and some invitations to upcoming classes + events! For more visit www.odettepress.us or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress.
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In today's newsletter, we're exploring a simple thread to help us riff on presence with the environment. This week, write along in journal circle, and practice more in person and online next week in gratitude practice, beginner's journaling, and build your journaling practice. Of course, find yourself a journal to support you over at www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress
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A practice and pep talk for delight in our creative lives. What's delighting you? For more, visit www.odettepress.us or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress to delight in the process of journals and cards.
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How can curiosity help support us in our creative practice? How can writing help us get clear? Today's newsletter is a journey through the practices of creative landscape, intention, and curiosity. For more visit www.odettepress.us and follow along in Instagram @OdettePress. Thanks for being here!
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In today's #odetteloveletter, I'm riffing on how meditation and journaling can help us organize our minds. Explore prompts, pep talks, and practices meant to help inspire you to sustain and continue on your creative path. If you like this, forward this along! Let's grow this Odette Press community.
Find your next tool for creative practice at www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress
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What helps you organize your creative life? Today's newsletter is all about September energy, seasonal shifts, and finding ways of organizing.
Find your next tool for creative practice over at www.odettepress.us & follow along for more on Instagram @OdettePress
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Organize around creativity, and practice gratitude in this week's online class and this week's #odetteloveletter. Have someone who might like this, too? Forward it along, share it with a friend!
Visit www.odettepress.us for more or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress
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Let's pause, shall we? (Yes)
Today's #odetteloveletter is all about how empowering it can be to pause in our creative lives, and check in.
Join in for this weeks' class -- Build Your Journaling Practice (meets on Thursday)
For more, visit www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress. Love this newsletter? Share it with a friend: forward your email along, or send them this audio version.
That's it for this week. Take good care!
Waxing nostalgic and riffing on creative expression, younger years, and the joys of abstraction and music. Included, too: a reminder to sign up for CREATIVE LANDSCAPE (we begin on 8/21) and a few prompts and a dynamic process for your creative practice experience. Find your next journal at www.odettepress.us and follow along, of course, on Instagram @OdettePress.
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Today we're explore sun's rays, creative practice, and a new way to generate that nature-self-experience connection. Come along for the journey of Creative Landscape: An Online Course in Connection (we begin August 21) and shout out to my dear friend Cait, who I had the absolute pleasure of being in conversation with last night for a celebration of the Lion's Gate (8/8) whose work you can check out at www.caitbyrnes.com
Of course, find a journal, card, or creative class for you and yours and more at www.odettepress.us and on Instagram at @OdettePress.
Your turn: how are you sharing your brightness with the world?
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Our exploration of creative practice continues as we say hello to August, and bring in some new and returning classes and experiences. Join in this Thursday, August 4 for Journal Circle, August 6 for Suminagashi at the Brooklyn Brainery, celebrate Leo season with me and Cait Byrnes on Monday, August 8, and brand new: check out Creative Landscape: An Online Course in Connection starting August 21.
How/what are you expressing this season? What's ripening in your life? Tag your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress. Take care!
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Today we're digging into solar nature, exploring different ways of expressing ourselves. Express yourself on the page with a journal from the shop: visit www.odettepress.us or follow along in Instagram @OdettePress for more.
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Today we're reflecting on four years of Odette Press. Thank you to everyone who's been a part of this so far! For more, visit www.odettepress.us, tell a friend to share the love, and follow along on Instagram at @OdettePress.
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In today's love letter, we're grounding into gratitude, which pairs well with an heirloom journal and this Friday's upcoming class. See you there?
For more creative classes, moments for writing and tools for reflection visit www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram at @OdettePress
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Let's dig into July, nourishment, and a new month ahead. Join in for this Thursday's monthly meeting, Journal Circle (sign up here) and listen in for some prompts for your practice. For more, follow along on Instagram at @OdettePress and shop journals, cards, and creative events at www.odettepress.us
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In today's newsletter, we're flowing with emotions and tides of life. What's nourishing you this week? Tag your reflections or write in response, and follow along for more on Instagram @OdettePress. Visit www.odettepress.us to find a journal or card to support you as you navigate life's process.
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In today's newsletter, some prompts for reflection in light of the change of seasons and the sun. Write, draw, explore, and come along for the journey -- and be sure you're following along at www.odettepress.com or on Instagram at @OdettePress.
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In today's newsletter, let's dig into reflective practice as a method for communicating and self-connection. Listen in for prompts, and find tools for your practice over at www.odettepress.us and follow along for more on Instagram @OdettePress.
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In today's newsletter, some writing on color. There's a new collection of Heirloom Journals in the shop for you today, in five new colorways.
Of course, follow along for more over on Instagram @OdettePress. Take good care! Happy writing, creating, and reflecting.
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Today's newsletter is part travel, part wander, part creative practice -- with some class updates and prompts for pausing and reflecting. You can tag us in your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress or shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us
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Today we're continuing to dig into our creative soil with some questions for your practice, some points of contact. Also in today's letter to you: some excitement about a brand new (reworked) program coming to you soon! As always, tag your reflections of this newsletter over on Instagram @OdettePress, send a message, reply to your email, and most importantly, take good care.
Find journals and cards (some new tools for you and your practice) handmade and one of kind over at www.odettepress.us
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In today's newsletter, let's dig into the earth. Some prompts for practice and a reflection on the solace of grounding. As always, i'd love to hear from you and if you resonated with this letter. you can write back, reflect, or respond by replying to this love letter, or if you'd like, tag your reflections or send a message over on instagram @OdettePress.
pick a journal for your musings, and your practice too, over at www.odettepress.us.
This week's newsletter is an adaptation of a blog post I wrote for Dara over at Harvest Retreats -- where I'll be a facilitator and creative, meditative guide for participants this May! I'm so excited about this topic (investigating your creative landscape) and can't wait to work with everyone in the coming weeks. This week's newsletter is a pep talk on creativity, its benefits, and how it is a practice, something we tend to over time.
Learn more about the bloom retreat in lancaster, pennslyvania over memorial day weekend, find your next journal or card over at www.odettepress.us and of course, as always, i'd love to hear from you and if you resonated with this letter. You can write back, reflect, or respond by replying to this love letter, or if you'd like, tag your reflections or send a message over on instagram @OdettePress. Have a friend who might like this or enjoy it, too? Forward this along! An intention is to GROW this community and I'm so grateful that you're here listening, reading, and a part of it.
Take good care!
on the middle path practice, freshly written and recorded for your #odetteloveletter collection in your ears and in your inbox. let's connect to nature, practice, the nature of practice and the growth-filled energy of spring. for more, visit www.odettepress.us, or tag @OdettePress in your reflections on instagram. keep going, keep growing!
Let's dig into ideas, intentions, and presence with the season. Come along on the journey? questions? intentions? i'd love to hear your shares. as always, you can explore, write back, reflect, or respond by replying to this love letter, or if you'd like, tag your reflections over on instagram @OdettePress. there's also a whole calendar of classes and events that just got posted for this brand new month (including two in-person suminagashi events!) so check out the calendar to sign up and learn more.
Take good care!
In today's newsletter, we're exploring birds, and the power of community (plus some awe and wonder through creativity). Listen along, share with a friend, and tag us in your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress. Visit www.odettepress.us and equip your creative practice!
How can writing for growth help us widen our perspective? When we notice our writing over time, we can pick out patterns, gain insights, notice clarity. Dig on into some end-of-the-month prompts, find inspiration in walking, and get excited for classes in the month ahead!
For more, visit www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress. Thank you for being here! You are much appreciated.
In today's newsletter, let's dig into practice, and steps for skillfully reviewing your journaling pages. How can journaling help us notice our growth?
For journals and more visit www.odettepress.us or head over to Instagram -- @OdettePress.
In today's #odetteloveletter, let's examine voice. What's the voice of your practice?
Follow along, share your reflections over on Instagram @OdettePress or find a journal just right for your practice over at www.odettepress.us
Things are growing: it's almost the spring season. In today's #odetteloveletter, we're digging into tools for growth. Grab a journal and a pen. Set a timer. Write along.
For more, follow along on Instagram at @OdettePress, or find a new tool for your practice over at www.odettepress.us
As always, thanks for being here.
In today's #odetteloveletter we're digging into small steps of progress, careful growth, and incremental change. As always, follow along at www.odettepress.us or on Instagram at @OdettePress, come to class, keep writing/creating/reflecting, and of course, take good care.
Have someone in your life who might like this love letter, too? Send this recording their way! May we all be creative, find our strength, and be in peace.
In today's #odetteloveletter, let's reflect: on love, loving practice, and how love (and writing) can be stitched across time in our lives like a thread. What's moving you? What are you grounded in? Whatever it is, keep going.
For more, visit www.odettepress.us or check out the calendar for classes. Follow along or tag your love letter reflections over on Instagram at @OdettePress!
Today's #odetteloveletter is a riff, again, on different parts of love and loving practice. What do we notice? How can we savor? As always, let's practice together.
Follow along on Instagram @OdettePress, and find your next journal or card at www.odettepress.us. Take good care, and keep going!
Today's #odetteloveletter is another examination of love, and the ways to bring love into our creative practice. This month is all about courage, heart, and dedication. Come along! And thanks for listening.
Read past letters on beginning practice, and check out the calendar for upcoming classes and events.
Follow along on Instagram, tag your reflections, and find the love of practice through pen and paper: find a journal or card at www.odettepress.us.
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In today's #odetteloveletter, let's start with love. Included: questions for practice, reflections on the connections between beginner's mind and the inspiring spark of love, and of course, love as a practice. Read past letters on beginning practice, and check out the calendar for upcoming classes and events.
Follow along on Instagram, tag your reflections, and find the love of practice through pen and paper: find a journal or card at www.odettepress.us.
PS. Have someone you love? Forward this to a friend! Let's grow our practices together.
In today's newsletter: reflections on the practice of meditation, simple instructions for restarting, and building on last week's courage with some antidotes to perfectionism through creative practice and journal writing.
Find a journal and/or card for you or someone you love over at www.odettepress.us, reply to your email with your reflections, and follow along for process shots and studio scenes over on Instagram at @OdettePressor by contributing to this writing. Other ways to support if you love what you're reading/listening to: leave us a review on Spotify, or forward this email to a friend, or find something new for your practice in the shop. We really appreciate it.
Rooting for you and sending courage your way.
It's Tuesday, and we're continuing our month-long investigation of beginner's mind, the place of being at the start of a new practice. Whether you're just starting something, revisiting something, or continuing, courage is a theme that comes up -- one that is required when we face those inner "gremlins of perfectionism."
In today's #odetteloveletter, we're digging into how to craft a courageous practice, and why courage is important.
Your responses are a gift and they are much appreciated -- reply to your #odetteloveletter email to respond or tag your reflections over on instagram @OdettePress.
Of course, visit the calendar to learn about classes and chances for creative practice all month long, find your next journal or card at www.odettepress.us, and revisit past love letters.
In today's #odetteloveletter, let's start at the beginning. Today we're rooting into beginner's mind, that feeling of being right at the start (or the restart). How does it feel to start something new? What do you notice? This and more in today's newsletter. Follow along with studio process, class updates, and more over on Instagram @OdettePress, and shop journals and cards to equip the adventure of your practice at www.odettepress.us
Today's #odetteloveletter is a letter of gratitude, a moment of devotion, thankfulness for community, the past, and the year ahead. Sign up for Beginner's Journaling starting January 12, and as always, find journals and more at www.odettepress.us
In today's #odetteloveletter we're exploring year-end reflections (or not) and riffing on the gifts of this year with some questions for reflection and self-connection.
Of course, find journals and cards for your practice over at www.odettepress.us and tag your class views and reflection on Instagram at @OdettePress. Happy new year ahead, everyone, and take good care.
In today's #odetteloveletter we're celebrating the solstice, the senses, and the gift of right now. Shop journals and cards over at www.odettepress.us, tag your journals or reflections on Instagram @OdettePress, and take good care.
In today's #odetteloveletter, let's anchor into presence (that's a present, too!). Learn about upcoming markets (there are two this weekend) and dig into different practices in gift giving and celebration. Of course, tag your reflections over at @OdettePress, and find your next journals or cards over in the shop -- at www.odettepress.us
In today's #odetteloveletter we're celebrating story, and a new collection of Heirloom Journals, just added to the shop. Find these and more at www.odettepress.us, and follow along with process shots, classes, and behind the scenes studio views over on Instagram at @OdettePress
In today's #odetteloveletter we're digging into childhood memories, practices from the past, and ways that creativity stitches itself together through past, present, and future. And presents, we're talking about those, too! This week's newsletter includes the start of a series of creative gift ideas for making meaning and creating connection through the tools you might already have on hand. Find your own marbled paper goods over at www.odettepress.us and tag us in your creativity and reflections over on Instagram at @OdettePress.
New journal colors! A reflection on the cold! More connections to family and grandparents. Today's newsletter centers around the seasonal shift, some changes in the shop, and that creative fire of joy and warmth. What's warming you today?
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what do we give to our practices and what do we receive in return? how is our practice a two lane road? in today's newsletter, let's explore the gifts of practice (and some brand new, very special additions to the Odette Press studio landscape. the spiral notebooks are here!)
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Do you ever walk down the same path or same street for weeks and weeks only to realize you there's a path you've never taken and that leads you onward to more inspiration and more surprises? That's what we're exploring today. Follow along on Instagram @OdettePress (where I'll be revealing our new winter collection so very soon) find journals and cards to fit your own practice at www.odettepress.us and if you have someone you know who might like this newsletter, send it along!
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Let's start our holiday gift gathering early: advanced sales help artists, small business owners, makers (like yours truly) anticipate materials and shipping schedules with a little bit more ease and help balance the workload of postal workers. if you're doing some holiday shopping this year, shop early, and shop small!
In today’s #odetteloveletter we’re exploring rhythm, music, flow, and creative practice. What rhythms ground you? What songs enliven you? As always, tag your reflections over at @OdettePress or find your own journals and cards at www.odettepress.us
In today's #odetteloveletter, we're exploring the winds of change, finding grounding, and another round of elemental wisdom, starting weekly for you on november 10 [sign up here]. Sign up for more November classes here, and follow along on Instagram -- tag @OdettePress in your reflections.
Today's #odetteloveletter explores movement, practice, and the flow-like ways of unlocking creative mind through the lens of a reflection on swimming. What's moving you? How do you find flow? Sign up for this week's brand new class Creative Body, Creative Mind, and tag your reflections or follow along with Odette Press on Instagram.
In today's #odetteloveletter, we're exploring the relationship between movement and creative practice, just in time for next week's brand (!!) new (!!) class! Yes, folks, this one is bright and shiny and brand new and is all about investigating movements, embodiment, writing, artmaking, and creativity. Let's move together! Let's breathe together! Let's get into our practices, let's draw and write. Sign up for Creative Body, Creative Mind here or head over to the Odette Press calendar for more October classes. Newsletter readers: if you scroll down to the bottom, you'll also catch a glimpse of some brand new styles debuting this winter/fall! Stay up to date with those over on Instagram @OdettePress.
In today's #odetteloveletter, we're in conversation about community, creative practice, and the shift of the seasons. Today we focus on a conversation I had over email last month with Amina Ahmad from Handmade Habitat. We explore what inspires Amina personally and within her art and business practice, along with the story of how Handmade Habitat came to be. You can find Handmade Habitat candles at www.handmadehabitat.co/shop and shop the Limited Edition Odette Press x Handmade Habitat Gratitude Journals here. I'm grateful for Amina's perspective and for sharing these parts of her story! We're gathering in community this week for Journal Circle again, and you can always find new classes, journals, cards, and events by visiting www.odettepress.us or following along over at @OdettePress on Instagram.
In today's #odetteloveletter we're hearing from community perspectives on what journaling means. Thank you to everyone who shared their reflections, and you can keep those coming in if you'd like by emailing them to odettepress@gmail.com. We've got new styles and a brand new class coming your way next month, so stay tuned! As always: follow along in the weekly #odetteloveletter, find journals and cards over at www.odettepress.us or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress.
In today’s #odetteloveletter, we’re trying something new: I want to hear from you! How has journaling, writing, or creative practice impacted your life? Find this question and more in today’s letter, along with updates on classes (and returning courses!) plus a hint of what’s to come. You can reply to this audio version by sending your own message to share in next week’s newsletter, or by email — odettepress@gmail.com and follow along for more over at www.odettepress.us
In this episode, I’m taking you on a brief journey of my process and practice, dipping into the story behind Odette Press — and talking about how creative practice is a little like mapping, or way-finding. Follow along or find journals and cards in the shop @OdettePress / www.odettepress.us
What do you value, want, and need? The questions we’re investigating today in the Odette love letter. Follow along on Instagram @OdettePress and find journals, classes, and cards over at www.odettepress.us
In today’s #odetteloveletter, I’m sharing some practices for everyday presence. As always, follow along at @OdettePress and shop journals and cards over at www.odettepress.us
In today’s #odetteloveletter, a little writing on remembering. Follow along on Instagram at @OdettePress and stop for journals and cards as always at www.odettepress.us
In this #odetteloveletter, let’s write a love letter to the journeys of our lives. Sending you some sunlight from vacation — and a reminder that all orders placed this week will ship next week. Find out more at www.odettepress.us
This week’s #odetteloveletter is all about heart practice and writing for courage. What are the ways that you’re brave? Follow along on Instagram at @OdettePress or shop books and cards in the shop at www.odettepress.us (note: we’re on vacation this week — all orders placed between 8/7 and 8/21 will ship after 8/22)
In this #odetteloveletter, anchor into the things that nourish you. And, a reminder: all orders placed in the shop from 8/6-8/20 will ship after vacation, after 8/22. For more, follow along on Instagram @OdettePress, and shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us and for more on Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés and her work and wisdom, please visit www.clarissapinkolaestes.com
In this #odetteloveletter I’m riffing on awe, high jumps, and the Olympics, and what a Sunday afternoon of sports has taught me about a journaling practice. Come along for the journey: shop journals at www.odettepress.us and stay up to date with August classes and the collections on Instagram @OdettePress. Happy writing!
In today’s #odetteloveletter we explore past, present, and origin stories as we tune into three years of Odette Press. A big huge thank you to everyone who makes this joy dream a real thing! Follow along and find your journals and cards at www.odettepress.us and www.Instagram.com/OdettePress
In today’s #odetteloveletter we explore community, grandmothers, rituals, and berry season. What supports you in each season? For more visit www.odettepress.us and for the month of July use code “odetteturnsthree” for 30% of one order to celebrate 3 years of this company and community. Follow along on Instagram @OdettePress
In today’s #odetteloveletter we explore hot days, summertime, and a joy list. What brings you joy? Find out more and follow along at www.odettepress.us and @OdettePress.
In today’s #odetteloveletter we’re exploring a gratitude practice and the insights from class. What are you grateful for today? Find out more and follow along at www.odettepress.us and @OdettePress
In this week’s #odetteloveletter we explore and examine journaling as a way of mapping and we celebrate the change in seasons. Find out more, follow along, and shop Odette Press at www.odettepress.us and on Instagram @OdettePress
In today’s #odetteloveletter, I’m excited to share the brand new collection of intention journals. what’s your intention? what’s your aim? shop journals, cards, classes and more at www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @OdettePress
In this week’s #odetteloveletter we feature the voice and perspective of writer, artist, birth worker, law professor, and activist Joyell Arvella. Joyell is the founder of Indigo Birthings and Brownstead, two cooperatives rooted in racial justice, working in tandem at the intersection of safe places, food security, and restorative creativity to produce better outcomes for all stages of pregnancy. We are so very excited to share this love letter with you today! Find Joyell and her work at www.joyellarvella.com, on Instagram at @joyell.arvella and @brown.stead and at www.indigobirthings.com. For journals, cards, and more creative community, visit www.odettepress.us
In this love letter, we dig into ways to empower the tools in your toolkit through journaling, patience, and creative practice. Learn more and shop the collection today at www.odettepress.us
In today’s #odetteloveletter we examine summer coming, cicada calls, and reminders for practice. Is that you already, month of June? For more visit www.odettepress.us and follow along on Instagram @odettepress
In today’s #odetteloveletter we examine softness in practice, and resting with intention. How or where are you softening? Learn more about Odette Press, find journals and cards through the shop, or follow along on Instagram @OdettePress.
In this #odetteloveletter, we dig into a new feature: community spotlights, with writing on how journaling can support us in personal development, written for us by the lovely odette press community member, j. what do you do when you feel stuck? how can you use journaling learn more about yourself in the process?
for more, visit www.odettepress.us to find journals and cards, forward this love letter to a friend who might resonate with it, and be sure to follow along on instagram @OdettePress
In this #odetteloveletter, we explore new classes for May and springtime’s potential. Learn more, tag your reflections, and follow along at @odettepress or by visiting www.odettepress.us
In this episode of the #odetteloveletter, we examine how patterns and repetition can teach us things.
What patterns do you notice?
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In this episode, we examine connection to rootedness, to earth, and to landscape, in celebration of earth week. What keeps you rooted and grounded? What do you notice in your inner landscape? For more, and to sign up for the newsletter, visit www.odettepress.us
In today’s #odetteloveletter we explore the power of words, rhythms, and incantations. What rhythms move you? For more, to follow along, and to find journals and cards head to www.odettepress.us
In today’s #odetteloveletter we explore April. A brand new month! For more, and to sign up for the newsletter, visit www.odettepress.us
In today’s episode #odetteloveletter, we explore imagination, curiosity, writing, and the mind. What’s blooming in your imagination? For more, and to sign up for the newsletter, visit ODETTE PRESS | www.odettepress.us
In today's #odetteloveletter, explore springtime, newness and beginner's mind.
What's something you're beginning?
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In today’s episode we check in on seasonality, springtime, and seeds for your practice. What seeds are you planting? Check out more and shop journals & cards at www.odettepress.us
In this episode, we explore inspiration. What inspires you? Learn more and shop journals and cards at www.odettepress.us
In this episode, we explore march classes, including some bookbinding newness. To sign up, shop journals and cards, and to learn more about the #odetteloveletter, head to www.Odettepress.us
In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore the rituals and recipes -- tying together creative practice and baking bread.
What's the recipe of you?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore the new heirloom collection and creative practice.
What feels lovely to you today?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore a gratitude practice.
What are you grateful for?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we colder weather and this coming November.
What are you wrapping yourself in?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we investigate harvest time and journaling with affirmations.
What do you affirm for you?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore love, lists, and parts of the practice
(plus some very exciting things happening this week!)
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In today's #odetteloveletter, a word of thanks.
Sending much gratitude to you all today.
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we investigate finding sun within.
Who or what feels like the sun to you?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore intentionality in writing.
What's your desire or intention?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore digital ways of gifts and connecting.
What feels like magic to you these days?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore the gift of your words.
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we celebrate small business saturday and giving tuesday.
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we touch into support and community.
Who supports you? What do you appreciate or admire about the people who support you?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we investigate journaling accountability and checking in.
What are you checking in on?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore kindness and the permission of tending.
What is it you need?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore intention and purpose (and share more on an exciting opportunity coming up this saturday, 10/24)
What's your aim, focus, intention?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore remembering and accountability.
What practices, people, classes etc help you remember you?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we explore continuation, dreaming.
What's one thing that brings you back to your visions and dreams?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we pause to touch into intentions.
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we pause to center in cultivating, newness.
What are you growing, what do you notice?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we pause to wrap ourselves in practice.
What resonates when you spend time with the word embracing?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we pause to celebrate, check in, evaluate.
How do you like to be celebrated?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we investigate inner landscape, journal writing, and body-centered practices.
How is the soil of your soul today?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we practice presence with moon cycles, kindness, and prompts for checking in.
How do you soften? How are you in tune with cycles?
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In today's #odetteloveletter, we practice presence with journaling, story, and expression.
How do you express yourself, on and off the page?
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