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
"Do the things you make touch you back?"
— Rajani Perera
"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
Silence is the poetics of space. What it means to be in a place.
Emergence Magazine • Emergence Magazine - Sanctuaries of Silence
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing or rightdoing, there is a field, I'II meet you there."
— Rumi
Kaskie: We are not trying to be everything to everybody. We’re trying to be something to someone.
Dan Kois • The Oral History of Pitchfork, From the Careers It Made to the Bands It Killed
To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy—and it makes you accountable.
Emergence Magazine • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
"Don’t you think they’re maybe the same thing. Love, and attention?"
— Lady Bird