Natalie Audelo
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Natalie Audelo
Why do we always remember our childhood friends? Why do so many people look back on college with fondness? Why are so many married couples nostalgic for those hardscrabble early years, with the crappy jobs and tiny apartment and borrowed baby clothes? It’s because, while those environments were materially constrained (we had fewer choices), they yi... See more
David Roberts • The medium chill
how many people you touched > how many people you reached
I don’t think that humans can really move forward into whatever’s coming for us next without facing what we’ve done to our home and each other. Such a reckoning includes the beauty, joy, and community found in crisis, as well as the pain. The sociologist Donna Haraway calls this “staying with the trouble.”
Manjula Martin Tells Us
It is rare to meet someone who is fully connected to their core essence, but we know it right away when we do. These people have a certain luminosity to them, they emanate contentment and clarity, and they seem to have enough time.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
We have a public imagination that cannot conceive of what exactly to do with children, especially smart children. We fail to properly respect them through adolescence, so we have engineered them to be useless, and so they shuffle through a decade of busywork. Partly, the length of schooling has increased simply because it could—because we no longer
... See moreSimon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
I think this is probably an experience that many, many, particularly women but probably others feel, is the sense of loss of who we essentially are because of the requirements of what we do. And so I think a lot of people were really funny, and I think a lot of people were really silly, and I think a lot of people were really playful.
We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238
There’s nothing more magical than watching someone do things they didn’t know they were capable of.