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
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity. (Take that into your marriage)
David Whyte • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
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
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
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Getting found is about being findable.
Tina Mai • Kernel | Chaos Theory
"Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others."
~ Picasso
~ Picasso
Poetic Outlaws • Tweet
"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
"Art happens between you and something—a subject, an idea, a technique—and both you and that something need to be free to move."
— David Bayles & Ted Orland, Art and Fear
"We cannot hurry the river."
— Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
"It is a paradox that experiencing pain releases pain."
— Gunilla Brodde Norris