Kate Smalley

I think what I enjoy most about listening is that I disappear.

Language is like the earth. It has a huge vitality.

I love the question @jordancooper asks founders- “if there were one thing i needed to understand to see as much value in your business as you do, what would it be and let’s talk about that.”

“Great things can only be understood gradually. You don’t get anything great all at once.”

— Richard Rohr

“Is this worth saying? Is it said clearly? Is it said beautifully?”

— Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness

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

"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"

— Mary Oliver