Fig, Leaf, a colorway

On breathing, grounding down, and figs for living and grieving

Colorway is an additional, monthly essay for paid subscribers with deeper dives into memories, practices, and colors in the Odette Press collections. These essays pair reflections on color and meaning making with ways to tend to creative lives — each piece features recipes, sights, sounds, to connect with each color of note. Today, an essay on growth, breath, Earth, life, grief, and Fig Purple. Read to the end for a recipe for Whole Wheat Fig Leaf Scones, plus journaling prompts practice, and a discount on Fig journals over at Odette Press.

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starling, fig tree, brooklyn, 2023

Deep, dusk black purple. Starling and fig, both iridescent in the sunlight. In the shade of the fig leaves fades the smell of coconut, and a wooded, sweet, slightly vegetal. Seasons swell and fade; I follow color, flavor, ideas for taste into the city, grounding into the ground, breathing with the season, in the practice of finding figs.