Kate Smalley

“A courageous heart will go forth and engage with life despite confusion and fear.”

— John O’Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

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

Words are really honest presences. They always show what’s going on. Show me the words you use and I’ll have a fair ideas of what’s happening or not happening with you.

"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

“If you are here unfaithfully with us / you’re causing terrible damage.”

— Rumi

"It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain."

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

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.”