Kate Smalley
@katesmalley
Small Business Advisor & Educator.
Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.
Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.
Kate Smalley
katesmalley.com
“Great things can only be understood gradually. You don’t get anything great all at once.”
— Richard Rohr
"To resist in place is to make oneself into a shape that cannot so easily be appropriated by a capitalist value system."
— Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing
"Don’t you think they’re maybe the same thing. Love, and attention?"
— Lady Bird
"For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them."
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace
Gratitude is so much more than a polite thank you. It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously physical and spiritual, as our bodies are fed and spirits nourished by the sense of belonging, which is the most vital of foods. Gratitude creates a sense of abundance, the knowing that you have what you need. In that climate
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"You can’t find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf
Silence is the poetics of space. What it means to be in a place.
Emergence Magazine • Emergence Magazine - Sanctuaries of Silence
"It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain."
— Gunilla Brodde Norris