Natalie Audelo
@natalieaudelo
yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling. civic optimist based in SF
Natalie Audelo
We create our own reason to live, not a meaning to life. If life has no meaning, it is entirely up to us to determine how we want to live, what purpose we want to fulfill. As Jean Paul Sartre would put it, we define our existence by determining our own essence, or the things that make us us. It is also up to us to grapple with the terrors that come... See more
Mark Sabino • Camus and Curren$y: Why I Preach Indie
People are too conscious about choosing the ‘right’ thing that signifies their taste level, or who they are as a person.
“And I get it, sometimes I say, ‘What’s the white tee I should buy?’ instead of, ‘This is what I want to spend and here’s what looks good on me.’ Same with ingredients — ‘Here’s what tastes good to me, f**k what anyone else... See more
“And I get it, sometimes I say, ‘What’s the white tee I should buy?’ instead of, ‘This is what I want to spend and here’s what looks good on me.’ Same with ingredients — ‘Here’s what tastes good to me, f**k what anyone else... See more
Blackbird Spyplane • Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting
What Lawrence’s life demonstrates so powerfully is that it actually takes a daily effort to be free. To be free is not the result of a moment’s decisive action but a project to be constantly renewed. More than anything else, freedom requires tenaciousness. There are intervals of repose but there will never come a state of definitive rest where you... See more
It Takes a Daily Effort to Be Free
A crush is a powerful little vial of that pure feeling—the longing, the push and pull. In his poem “The More Loving One,” W. H. Auden compared unrequited love to looking up at the stars, observing their beauty while knowing full well they “do not give a damn.” But he wasn’t mad about it; he saw that that’s how it should be, and anyway, he was more... See more
Faith Hill • A Crush Can Teach You a Lot About Yourself
“The sacred is the effect of a momentary uniting of individuals into a jointly acting collective.” These moments act as liminal spaces where inner experience is externalized, reshaped, and received in a shared field of attention by turning feeling into form, and form into meaning.
the future will be mystical
Expectations try to control life.
Standards allow life to delight you.
Standards allow life to delight you.
Expect Less
instinctual adventurer
Sculpting the wild: Discover A Sculptor's Paradise in South Africa
"Big wins tend to be accompanied by some combination of bigger decisions, more uncertainty, and greater risk.
If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.
You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.
You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."