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.

Only that nothing works out the way you plan, which is a blessing every hour. Life always takes a different form, if only because life will always be more imaginative — deeper, wiser, more surprising — than you are.
from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Pico Iyer!
loving the process
From The Lily comics archives: Why are adult friendships so hard to make (and keep)? “It can be really difficult to find someone who vibes with you,” writes cartoonist @kagwheeler. Plus, she continues, “We may not have the same opportunities to make new friends that were available to us in school or at that terrible bar gig.” Read more through the link in our bio. #wapocomics
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building a new world and friendship
To see love, you gotta be love.

The heart is a muscle. Love is a muscle. Grow your heart. Grow your love.
from Anne Gudger Tells Us
It’s helpful to think in terms of: it’s only play. We’re here to play. We’re here to have fun. And to use the feedback of, you know, sometimes failure is the thing you need to know to get to where you’re going. So if you try to solve a problem 10 ways and they all fail, you can either decide I’m a failure or you can decide, okay, I’m now 10 method
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from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
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
loving the process
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
Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.
from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
"Do not ask your children

to strive for extraordinary lives.

Such striving may seem admirable,

but it is the way of foolishness.

Help them instead to find the wonder

and the marvel of an ordinary life.

Show them the joy of tasting

tomatoes, apples and pears.

Show them how to cry

when pets and people die.

Show them the infinite pleasure

in the touch of... See more
from 3-2-1: How to deal with a changing world and the wonders of ordinary life

from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Pico Iyer!

from Anne Gudger Tells Us

from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being

from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

from Polyfuturism—One World, Many Futures by Theo Priestley

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

from 3-2-1: How to deal with a changing world and the wonders of ordinary life