Kate Smalley

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.

“Don’t pack whatever is easiest or most available into the emptiness. Hold out for the right medicine. You will recognize it because it makes your life stronger rather than weaker.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves (p196)

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

We have so many allies in this world, including the blue in the sky, which we’re not paying attention to.

The frontier between what you want out of the world and what the world wants out of you. 

The questions scientists raised were not "Who are you?" but "What is it?" No one asked plants, "What can you tell us?"

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. 

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.”

— Anne Lamott