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.

“Other people might not understand who you’re becoming, or why you’re choosing what you choose, or what you’re doing during your seasons of emergence. The good news is that you don’t need anyone’s understanding to live into your truest next chapter. You don’t need anyone’s permission or validation. You don’t need anyone’s green light. You get to go... See more
from Baila turns one, part 2.
on seasons of emergence
It is actually an extraordinarily powerful skill to ask the “stupid” questions that
everyone else is afraid to ask. Stupid questions have the ability to create clarity in places where people didn’t even know there was confusion.
from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham
All these people you’ve known and loved – “they suffered and struggled so much, and then life is over,” said Scorsese. “You get to the point of saying, ‘Well, what does it all mean?’ It doesn’t matter what it means. You have to live it. And if you choose not to live it, you choose not to live it; that’s up to you. But you are existing and you live ... See more
from Martin Scorsese: “I have to find out who the hell I am” by Zach Baron
All we ever seek, and all we ever avoid are feelings. Feelings run the world. They constitute the only useful product of all material transactions between humans and their environment. Just like your body can’t use the food it eats for energy until it’s turned to glucose, we can’t really make use of the things we seek until they deliver certain fee... See more
from What you want is never a thing by David Cain
feelings run the world
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
... See more
from The Real Crisis in Humanities Isn't Happening at College by Ted Gioia
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
“ There’s also this other thing (above right) which is functional: My favorite candleholder ever. It’s beautiful, and no one else can ever buy it, because it was made by an old Italian man in Cetara on the Amalfi coast . I want so many things in my life to look like this, and nothing does.”
from Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting by Blackbird Spyplane
on curating things with soul
Now, the GoFundMe and DonorsChoose thing is closely related, but it gets its own throughline. These platforms emerge to seemingly supplement gaps in the public safety net for things like education and health care. But instead, they’re in a kind of enabling feedback loop: instead of your taxes ensuring that kids have desks and cancer patients can ge... See more
from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy
power structures and dynamics and Capitalism
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

from Baila turns one, part 2.

from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham

from Martin Scorsese: “I have to find out who the hell I am” by Zach Baron

from What you want is never a thing by David Cain

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

from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us

from Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting by Blackbird Spyplane

from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy

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