Kate Smalley

Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity. (Take that into your marriage)

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

In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles

“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

"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