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.

It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so differe... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova
a handshake vs. a hug ❤️
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Cleo Wade and
I have been thinking a lot about the continued and increasing lack of importance being placed on the idea of conversation , things over the past few years can feel so transactional. Thing is, like everyone, I love the one-way form of conversation that exists via the abundance (and abundance of forms) of content that is out there that drives me to c... See more
from Chris Kaskie, Varyer by Thought Enthusiast
It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team.
from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
Here are eight imperatives—all of them drawing strength and sustenance from the humanities:

We need a way of defining and pursuing progress that doesn’t reduce that concept to something that only comes from a digital device.

We desperately need access to values and wisdom that aren’t corrupted by the relentless financial metrics and imposed flavor-of
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from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
building a new world
Back when I was feeling a imless and lost I used to read and reread something Cheryl Strayed wrote about writing: The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering abou... See more
from pacing by Ava
loving the process
I feel totally overwhelmed by the state of the world, but I think music and creativity, to me, is a way of exploring what's possible. There's always something when I'm making music that I didn't see that comes from nowhere and appears. When you go to create something, you're opening yourself up to possibility. It is a way that I continuously touch ... See more
from Maggie Rogers Thinks Joy Can Be a Form of Rebellion by Mélissa Godin
the transformative power of music
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
New Creative Era
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living a creative life

from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Maria Popova

from Chris Kaskie, Varyer by Thought Enthusiast

from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia

from pacing by Ava

from Maggie Rogers Thinks Joy Can Be a Form of Rebellion by Mélissa Godin

from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy

New Creative Era