Natalie Audelo

brilliantly funny, always authentic, and full of essential and glorious and relatable humanity

These love stories — these friendships, these little nothing moments — this is the highest form of worship, of love.

emotional hygiene is not another thing to do perfectly. it’s not about becoming immune to spirals or forever calm or unshakably centered. it’s about cleaning up often enough that you don’t mistake the mess for your personality. it’s about catching the overwhelm before it becomes a worldview. it’s about building the quiet skill of knowing when your ... See more

For generalists, mastery doesn't mean knowing everything about one thing; it means understanding how to apply knowledge from one area to another in innovative ways.

I could sense the difference between authentic effortless (actually not giving a damn and being comfortable in my skin) and this manufactured effortless I had known before (aka people with a whole lot of money and a whole lot of time who get to look like they rolled out of bed) It really begs the question: who actually gets to be cool anyway?

every human being is a storyteller, that stories are how we seek to understand the meaning of our lives

“The sacred is the effect of a momentary uniting of individuals into a jointly acting collective.”

“Nothing is permanent,” she says. “So I’m very careful to be grateful every second that I get to be doing this at this level, because I’ve had it taken away from me before. There is one thing I’ve learned: My response to anything that happens, good or bad, is to keep making things. Keep making art.” She considers. “But I’ve also learned there’s no ... See more