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
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
"We cannot hurry the river."
— Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
The amateur's fear eclipses her compassion for others and for herself.
Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro
Gratitude is so much more than a polite thank you. It is the thread that connects us in a deep relationship, simultaneously physical and spiritual, as our bodies are fed and spirits nourished by the sense of belonging, which is the most vital of foods. Gratitude creates a sense of abundance, the knowing that you have what you need. In that climate
... See moreRobin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
"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
We have no idea what will land on the shoreline of morning tomorrow. We are always actively involved in receiving and shaping. I think that’s one of the major mistakes we make with time, is that we equate it with space. When in actual fact time is unshaped. Expectation creates the future, and the imagination that you bring to the new dawn will surp
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
"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
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.
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Creating for the long-term