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 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
We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it. The gospel is totally counterintuitive, it isn’t what we think it should be.
Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
There is no self that will survive a real conversation.
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”
— Anne Lamott
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
... See moreRobin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
"Which of these has more life? Which of these is more a mirror of my self? Does this object make me feel my humanity is expanding—or contracting?"
— Christopher Alexander, The Nature of Order
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
What qualities in myself have never met? What two qualities in myself have I never put together. What distances could I travel if I actually brought parts of me together that have never spoken?