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.

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

David Foster Wallace,
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from carry yourself lightly by Nix 🕊
loving the process
At the same time, a crush is beautiful because it’s a little unrealistic, because you see the very best in someone even when they’re flawed. One might argue that even a casual crush is a bit selfish—a way to project positive qualities onto someone, and to get the glowy excitement that comes with that, without really seeing them in all of their diff... See more
from A Crush Can Teach You a Lot About Yourself by Faith Hill
The opposite of retail therapy is fearless generosity.

from Eco-Friendly Products

Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?

loving the process and Creativity

But with less separation between art and commerce, Montgomery says, “there’s some self-censorship that happens. If you’re a little too knowledgeable about PR, you start to become way too aware of things like posting schedules, and it’s impossible to be punk anymore.”

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

Inherently, we could never judge someone’s taste on a single choice. Every person embodies 100s of choices, and we incorporate all of this information in understanding the person. In the times when the choices all work together to clarify the sensibility, this is known as congruence .

Without congruence, there cannot be good taste. (And a lot of bad... See more

from On Taste and Congruence

on taste

I believe that new ideas are born from demand. They are born from the courage and patience required to sit in the uncomfortable void of Not This while humbly waiting for an answer.

from You and I are Earth by Anna Fusco

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists generally. There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It’s made up of all those who’ve consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners – and I could list a hundred mo

from The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 by Wislawa Szymborska

loving the process and

from carry yourself lightly by Nix 🕊

from A Crush Can Teach You a Lot About Yourself by Faith Hill

from Eco-Friendly Products

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

from On Taste and Congruence

from You and I are Earth by Anna Fusco

from The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 by Wislawa Szymborska