Natalie Audelo
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yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling
Natalie Audelo
One of the fundamental choices that you face on Earth is the degree to which you’ll pursue deeper but riskier fulfillment or practice avoidance that exempts you from bad feelings but leaves you bereft of good ones.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
A hopeful future demands of us nothing less than our complete presence in the world – not as followers or consumers, but as participants. We have to learn again how to connect in ways that anchor us, ways that build the world we want to inhabit. This is where hope and possibility live.
314 / We need presence, not punditry
This planet is tended by innumerable invisible hands. When progress feels undetectable, I remind myself that much of life plays out on unseen stages. We must all tend to our inner gardens, as well as the gardens that we are but one small part of. To be human today is to exist at many scales at once, stories we can grasp and ones much larger than us... See more
🌎 The Inner Garden
“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
Instead, I stopped trying to fit myself and Every into an old model of what a founder, software startup, or media company needs to look like. Those are all old ideas, from an older context. They can be useful when needed. But they’re dry and dead.
I’ve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the littl... See more
I’ve just tried to be honest about who I am, what I want, and what I believe to be true about the littl... See more
Dan Shipper • Every’s Master Plan
Deadheading as a repeated practice of cutting that which stands in the way of growth, evolution, nourishment. Dancing that „capacity” dance, on a tightrope between usefulness and uselessness. Learning the same lesson again and again. (Because make no mistake I will be here again, sometime sooner or later.) Hoping that next season’s blossoms will be... See more
The rhododendron and I share a vintage
Culture, in compelling but unspoken ways, dictates the proven, acceptable methods by which members of the group address recurrent problems. And culture defines the priority given to different types of problems. It can be a powerful management tool.
Clay Christensen • How Will You Measure Your Life?
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. When you concentrate on what you have, you'll always end up having more."
