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
"We cannot hurry the river."
— Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
“Reality itself is the best ally of God. If you want to find God, if you want to go deep into the mystery of God, just accept reality in all of its truth and all of its depth. That will tell you all you need to know about the good, and the true, and the beautiful.”
— Richard Rohr, The Art of Letting Go
Conceiving of something as a gift changes your relationship to it in a profound way, even though the physical makeup of the “thing” has not changed. A wooly knit hat that you purchase at the store will keep you warm regardless of its origin, but if it was hand knit by your favorite auntie, then you are in relationship to that “thing” in a very
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“Life is ceaseless movement; stability is found in balance, not rigidity.”
— Neil Theise, Notes on Complexity
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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"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