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.

Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other.
from No Good Alone by rayne fisher-quann
A great new word: Pronoia Pronoia: the belief that the universe is conspiring in your favour – the opposite of paranoia.
“In many ways the magic of Patagonia comes from the constraints we place on ourselves which are grounded in our deep sense of responsibility to do right by the environment and society,” Stanley told me. “We can't go to the Fashion Institute of Technology library and choose from 5,000 fabrics for the spring line. We have a couple hundred we can choo... See more
from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim
good leadership
“There are old people who only think about the past, but it’s not like that around here.” She leaned her cane on a rock. “You have to do things,” she reflected. “There’s always a future, even if it’s very small.”
from A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’
I’ve learned that if I think about this problem on a daily basis— what positive impact can I have here and now on this day? —I start making better decisions. I begin doing better things. Even the smallest matters of daily life provide an opportunity for this. That’s reassuring—because those are constantly at hand and don’t require changing the whol... See more
from My 12 Favorite Problems by Ted Gioia
My sense is that what’s at stake here is really rethinking the human as a site of interdependency. And I think, you know, when you walk into the coffee shop ... and you ask for the coffee, or you, indeed, even ask for assistance with the coffee, you’re basically posing the question, do we or do we not live in a world in which we assist each other? ... See more
from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell
building a new world
I guess if we’re talking about joy, writing, and being a fully rendered person in the world, my main sources of liveliness are so human and obvious they might seem facile: 1) loving the people I love with full throttle abandon – my guy, our kids, my mom and dad, our gaggle of brothers, my army of girlfriends. So that’s advice, maybe: make as many g... See more
from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us
“Schmooze” derives from the Yiddish “shmuesn”, which in turn derives from Hebrew “shemuah,” meaning “rumor.”
from Baila turns one, part 2.
fun facts i love
There is no room for diverse futures in the boardroom when all they’re concerned with is hitting the next quarter’s KPIs.
from Polyfuturism—One World, Many Futures by Theo Priestley

from No Good Alone by rayne fisher-quann

from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim

from A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’

from My 12 Favorite Problems by Ted Gioia

from The Myth of Self-Reliance - The Paris Review by Jenny Odell

from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us

from Baila turns one, part 2.

from Polyfuturism—One World, Many Futures by Theo Priestley