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.

After all, not to be corny, haven’t we all become selective autobiographers in the digital age as we curate our lives for our own audiences of any size—cutting away from the raw fabric of our lived experience to reveal the shape of the story we most want to tell, whether it’s on our own feeds or the world’s stage?
from TIME's Person of the Year 2023
Every pretty good, sorta nice, kinda fun thing you abandon is like shedding a weighted vest that lets you move at top speed. You were so busy focusing on how much you could carry, you never realized you could run this fast.
from 3-2-1: The power of imperfection, the secret to a good morning, and more
loving the process
I liked mattering. I can live with less money and with “regular” cars and without a job title ... it’s very possible to live a very nice life without those things. But mattering ... yeah, I miss that. I want to figure out how to matter again1. Let’s put a pin in that one, consider it a work in progress.
from Retirement: Freedom or Free-Fall? by Tom Pendergast
loving the process and how i want to live my life
Impatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin and patience
Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in w
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from Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova by Anna Quindlen
loving the process
“Always remember that if you’re working too hard,” he said. “You’re going against the current. Just stop, relax, and go with the flow. Let the water take the lead.”
from Nana-Ama Danquah Tells Us
nuggets of wisdom
If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
from The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
There is a ton of nostalgic longing for these previous eras and scenes like “Indie Sleaze” without any of the desire to create the environment to make new versions of them possible . [...'] This forced synthesizing of the past for the sake of our generational feeling of missing out is the ultimate sign of the times. It’s preferable to try and crawl... See more
from Playfulness, 'the marriage pact', nostalgia loops, an innovation idea for footwear brands lurking
building a new world
So philanthropy under this rubric is not about creating sanctuaries from or alternatives to the demands of capitalism. The benevolence, if you can call it that, is in giving people from the underclass a chance to succeed by its rules. With, of course, very patronizing and constraining surveillance from the funder. It’s neoliberal brainworms all the... See more
from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy
power structures and dynamics

from TIME's Person of the Year 2023

from 3-2-1: The power of imperfection, the secret to a good morning, and more

from Retirement: Freedom or Free-Fall? by Tom Pendergast

from Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova by Anna Quindlen

from Nana-Ama Danquah Tells Us

from The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius

from Playfulness, 'the marriage pact', nostalgia loops, an innovation idea for footwear brands lurking

from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy