Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

Beautiful reminder to treat each other with great tenderness. Sending big love to everyone feeling the weight of grief. 💜 @rosemerry.trommer words via @alexmammadyarov
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Grief
I’m starting to wonder if the process isthe art. What do you mean by that? Maybe the photographing, the writing—maybe the tangible forms of the work are only the receipts of something much more important. What do you mean by that? I’m not exactly sure yet. But I’m paying close attention.
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living a creative life and loving the process
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We ar
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from The Tyranny of Convenience by Tim Wu
When you trust in other people, really incredible and unexpected things can happen. Usually, it’s things where you’re like, “Oh, I didn’t even think of doing that,” or, “Oh, I don’t think that will work out well,” but it actually does. Part of trusting other people might involve letting go of certain images you have of what the outcome should look ... See more
from On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden by Willa Köerner
It is actually an extraordinarily powerful skill to ask the “stupid” questions that
everyone else is afraid to ask. Stupid questions have the ability to create clarity in places where people didn’t even know there was confusion.
from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham
Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness
ted.com
I think we all want to be heard and music is a way to let out our inner emotional life, sometimes in a way that can’t necessarily be understood any other way. It functions different than prose or storytelling in that the music has an emotional base to it, even without the words. So you can feel this energy and express whatever’s going on inside of
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from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
Rick Rubin and
On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
by Willa Köerner
thecreativeindependent.com
11 highlights
What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that engage us will do so through story, craft, and a deeper and more sophisticated sense of meaning. The creator economy was ultimately driven by content (enabled by ubiquitous access to content creation and... See more
on meaning making

from 🎉 Brandon Stanton just shared "What do you mean by that?" for members only

from The Tyranny of Convenience by Tim Wu

from On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden by Willa Köerner

from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham

Krista Tippett: 3 practices for wisdom and wholeness

from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being

On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden