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 are here unfaithfully with us / you’re causing terrible damage.”
— Rumi
"Do the things you make touch you back?"
— Rajani Perera
"We lost public spaces. Online public spaces. Facebook and Google are shopping malls, but we think they are parks!"
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Aral Balkan
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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"The true self is not created, it is surrendered to.”
— Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go
"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"
— Mary Oliver
We have no idea what will land on the shoreline of morning tomorrow. We are always actively involved in receiving and shaping. I think that’s one of the major mistakes we make with time, is that we equate it with space. When in actual fact time is unshaped. Expectation creates the future, and the imagination that you bring to the new dawn will
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