Natalie Audelo
@natalieaudelo
yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling
Natalie Audelo
It’s easy, I think, to understand how patriarchy feeds on apathy, and jealousy, and white women protecting their small spheres of power. It’s harder, or at the very least sadder, to think about just how much of it runs on women’s deep, abiding sorrow.
Culture Study Meets 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders'
an anecdote for dark times and a gentle reminder about our ability to create a better future by finding joy and acting compassionately in small, present moments ✨
instagram.comthis was such a fun & easy watch to catch up with friends I hadn’t seen in 6+ months! It was the perfect conversation starter & I highly recommend anyone to try this with friends. 👯✨🫶🏼🤍💻🌈😂 Also, having Popeyes chicken for Friendsgiving instead of turkey is such a win 💋🤌🏼🤤 Let me know down below how you are spending your Thanksgiving break ⬇️🫶🏼 #friendsgiving #powerpointnight #thanksgiving #thankful #friends #girlsnight #medicalschool #gradstudents #realworld #fyp
instagram.comToo many businesses don’t really understand that the core of their business is making people feel good. Whether it’s walking into a store or a restaurant, or being on an airplane, most people go through life hoping that good things will happen to them, and they return to businesses that make those things happen.
Alison Beard • Life’s Work: An Interview with Ruth Reichl
Write little phrases that will “open a door to a scene”: Often, we can’t see our entire project in its full form, but we can see little pieces of it. A curtain moving in the morning light, for example. A man sneaking around a house. Jotting down these little hints “open a door” for your future writer-self.
Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved
The purpose of education is to develop agency within a child. Purposeful work and achieving mastery are tools to getting there. They aren’t the results of learning and imagination, it’s the other way around—learning is simply the consequence of doing. To understand this is to understand the ecology that fosters genius and talent.
Simon Sarris • School Is Not Enough
Our lives are bereft of ways to see people in the low-effort, regular, and repeating ways our brains were designed to connect through.
Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem
It’s clear why snakes are a symbol of regeneration: their capacity to shed their skin. In humans, our old or damaged cells are constantly being replaced by new ones. In snakes, all of their cells are replaced on the same timeline, as one unit rather than independent parts. When this occurs, the snake’s outermost cuticle—its old skin—becomes a dange... See more
The Overview: Year of the Wood Snake
she had the same bald enthusiasm for life