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
If you want to understand someone’s dreams, ask: How can I help you become the person you want to be?
Jessica Hagy • Ten Infrequently Asked Questions
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
"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
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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"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
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.com
Creating for the long-term
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity. (Take that into your marriage)