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
One of the best ways I’ve found to organize one’s thoughts about a huge swath of intellectual and creative space, is to write a syllabus
Synergy, emergence, evolution. “Winning at a dying system is not an interesting win.”
Getting found is about being findable.
Tina Mai • Kernel | Chaos Theory
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmereremergencemagazine.org
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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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
Being, doing, becoming. “The only doing that matters is adding beauty to life and/or protecting/serving the beauty that’s there.” “Most people are doing stuff that if they stopped doing it, the world would be better.”