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.

"To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life."
from Image
living a creative life
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
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
from Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground by Georgina Reid
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
On a cold Monday in December, 65 people were gathered for Reading Rhythms, an event that bills itself as “not a book club” but “a reading party.” The parties, which began in May, take place on rooftops, in parks and at bars. The premise is simple: Show up with a book, commit to vanquishing a chapter or two and chat with strangers about what you’ve ... See more
from It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want To by Molly Young
cool concepts and let's gather - ideas & concepts i love
That labor amounts to constant self-promotion in the form of cheap trend-following, ever-changing posting strategies, and the nagging feeling that what you are really doing with your time is marketing, not art. Under the tyranny of algorithmic media distribution, artists, authors — anyone whose work concerns itself with what it means to be human — ... See more
from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings
Most of the time, bad habits are simply a way of dealing with stress and boredom.
from How to Break a Bad Habit and Replace It With a Good One by James Clear
loving the process
I’m starting to wonder if the process isthe art. What do you mean by that? Maybe the photographing, the writing—maybe the tangible forms of the work are only the receipts of something much more important. What do you mean by that? I’m not exactly sure yet. But I’m paying close attention.
from 🎉 Brandon Stanton just shared "What do you mean by that?" for members only
living a creative life and loving the process
I used to have these elaborate theories that maybe there was something about the movement of the body and the water that magically sparked a deeper consciousness. But I’ve really come to realize the obvious thing, which is that these are simply the most unburdened spaces in my life, the moments in which I have the greatest uninterrupted intimacy wi... See more
from Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age by Krista Tippett

from Image

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

from Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care - Wonderground by Georgina Reid

from The Problems of Modern Philanthropy

from It’s My Party and I’ll Read If I Want To by Molly Young

from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings

from How to Break a Bad Habit and Replace It With a Good One by James Clear

from 🎉 Brandon Stanton just shared "What do you mean by that?" for members only

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