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.

I don't know. Could be worse. Could be better. I don't subscribe to any kind of theory that says things used to be better. That's bullshit. 200 years ago, people used to just, like, stare at flowers and go, "man we stare at flowers too much we gotta be farming."
from I posted 300+ Threads in 3 days by Alex Dobrenko`
I think we all want to be heard and music is a way to let out our inner emotional life, sometimes in a way that can’t necessarily be understood any other way. It functions different than prose or storytelling in that the music has an emotional base to it, even without the words. So you can feel this energy and express whatever’s going on inside of
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from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
Rick Rubin and
A brilliant 2015 essay by the economist Steven Horwitz argued that free play prepares children for the “art of association” that Alexis de Tocqueville said was the key to the vibrancy of American democracy; he also argued that its loss posed “a serious threat to liberal societies.” A generation prevented from learning these social skills, Horwitz w... See more
from Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid by The Atlantic
building a new world
on the importance of play
Cabana Magazine N21
cabanamagazine.com
taste & style
Letting go is not difficult—processing loss is.

from Simplify Simplify Simplify

in my (not so fun) feels

Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in w

from Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova by Anna Quindlen

loving the process

I think this is probably an experience that many, many, particularly women but probably others feel, is the sense of loss of who we essentially are because of the requirements of what we do. And so I think a lot of people were really funny, and I think a lot of people were really silly, and I think a lot of people were really playful.

from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238

Women In Business

In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don't have much time? Scale it down. Don't have much energy? Do the easy version. Find different ways to show up depending on the circumstances. Let your habits change shape to meet the demands of the day.

Adaptability is the way of consistency.

from 3-2-1: How to be consistent, the value of beauty, and designing for relaxation

good advice

Writer and activist James Baldwin on what love looks like:

"The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light."

from 3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like

Love

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

from I posted 300+ Threads in 3 days by Alex Dobrenko`

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

from Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid by The Atlantic

Cabana Magazine N21

from Simplify Simplify Simplify

from Anna Quindlen's Commencement Address at Villanova by Anna Quindlen

from We Can Do Hard Things Ep 238

from 3-2-1: How to be consistent, the value of beauty, and designing for relaxation

from 3-2-1: On saving money, controlling your anger, and what love looks like