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.

My claim is that luxury goods are gradually becoming a noisier signal of one's position in society. This isn't to say that they don't still confer status — they clearly do. People still buy material items to signal their status. But because they've become a noisier signal over time, people are starting to signal their status with their beliefs and ... See more
from The Profile Interview: Author Rob Henderson on Why We Hold ‘Luxury Beliefs’ and Develop ‘Status Anxiety’
power structures and dynamics
Her kindness and candor. Her curiosity and intellectual courage. Her willingness to explore and contemplate the layers of things rather than reaching for easy judgment
from Manjula Martin Tells Us
descriptions of people and qualities i admire
Impatience is an argument with reality - Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin and patience
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
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from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
Imagination is our gift as a species to move purposefully towards what does not yet exist and walk willingly through the unknown to get there. It has a power to change what seems possible and so to shift what becomes possible. Moral imagination looks inward as much as it acts outward. It works with a long sense of time and opens its eyes to assumpt... See more
from Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
loving the process
reframes i love
"I don't know where I'm going, but I know exactly how to get there."

I recently heard this quote from Boyd Varty. It spoke to me, because one of my greatest fears is not getting to where I want to be. Not because I don't think I'll get there, but because I don't know where "there" is. I don't know what I want to be , do or accomplish . I don't know ... See more
from What's in my NOW? — Larissa Fernandes
what do i want?
Insights from Byung-Chul Han: The rise of narcissism, the emphasis on authenticity, and shallow technological experiences are eroding essential societal bonds We need daily and lifelong rituals to help bring narrative structure into our lives In the past, people had time to contemplate information, consider its place within a larger narrat... See more
loving the process
“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatsoever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for the momen... See more
from 5-Bullet Friday — How to Find Joy, A Powerful Journaling Prompt, Hilarious Tokyo Blind Dates, Wisdom from a Firebrand, and More
things i believe to be true

from The Profile Interview: Author Rob Henderson on Why We Hold ‘Luxury Beliefs’ and Develop ‘Status Anxiety’

from Manjula Martin Tells Us

from School Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris

from Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project

from What's in my NOW? — Larissa Fernandes

from 5-Bullet Friday — How to Find Joy, A Powerful Journaling Prompt, Hilarious Tokyo Blind Dates, Wisdom from a Firebrand, and More