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
To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy—and it makes you accountable.
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
The frontier between what you want out of the world and what the world wants out of you.
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
Daniel Schmachtenberger - How can we live a meaningful life?
youtube.comBeing, doing, becoming. “The only doing that matters is adding beauty to life and/or protecting/serving the beauty that’s there.” “Most people are doing stuff that if they stopped doing it, the world would be better.”
"An important distinction must be made: liberation and freedom are not the same. Liberation is a process. Freedom is a temporary state of being. Liberation is dynamic. It never ends."
— Emilie Townes, Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader
“Is this worth saying? Is it said clearly? Is it said beautifully?”
— Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness
Intentional communities of mutual self-reliance and reciprocity are the wave of the future, and their currency is sharing. The move toward a local food economy is not just about freshness and food miles and carbon footprints and soil organic matter. It is all of those things, but it’s also about the deeply human desire for connection, to be in
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"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."
~ Picasso
~ Picasso
