Hello from Ortense Blue
The reason I am here is....
Words
Words have led me to Substack. The words of others who have thought about what they want to say and how they want to say it. Through the way that they presented their words I found them and felt the call.
This is my history with reading and writing. But words are also sounds, and my history also includes encounters with lyrical words too. I am a writer and a songwriter and my substack will cover words seen and words heard. Straight as a pin or bendy like strings, grammatically correct or lyrically adept.
This is my playground, playing with the way words sound.
1. Why this, why now
I am here to write honestly about my creative process and about words and sounds for wellbeing. I am also a therapist and have written a book about the processing of emotions and so I am very interested in how we can use music and writing to help us to offload and process.
2. What kind of space will this be
This is a space for curiosity, compassion and awe. That feeling of vastness and wonder that makes us feel a small but important part of something bigger than us. That makes things feel a little bit magical sometimes. Compassion in the sense that what is written here is my truth and therefore may not be objectively true (for what is that anyway?). My space is about wonder rather than stating facts with an argumentative stance.
3. When
My newsletter will be published each Sunday afternoon. Each week you can expect information about music, writing and emotions.
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