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
Daniel Schmachtenberger’s talk at Emergence
youtube.comSynergy, emergence, evolution. “Winning at a dying system is not an interesting win.”
"Which of these has more life? Which of these is more a mirror of my self? Does this object make me feel my humanity is expanding—or contracting?"
— Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order
In a rare 1988 interview, mythologist Joseph Campbell was asked "How would you advise somebody to tap into joy?"
In response, he gave the most mystical, mind-blowing and beautiful answer I could have ever imagined: https://t.co/pmJk3qzmVu
Ashwin Sharmax.comWhat qualities in myself have never met? What two qualities in myself have I never put together. What distances could I travel if I actually brought parts of me together that have never spoken?
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
Words are really honest presences. They always show what’s going on. Show me the words you use and I’ll have a fair ideas of what’s happening or not happening with you.
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
The questions scientists raised were not "Who are you?" but "What is it?" No one asked plants, "What can you tell us?"
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass
Creating for the long-term