Natalie Audelo

I am grieving a life I’ve been disloyal to; too busy auditioning for all the ones I could have instead.

satisficing: abandoning the quest for the ideal in favor of the good-enough

Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:

"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.

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Overheard on the Socials

The older I get, the more I realize that the most luxurious thing is being able to live in a walkable city. Wearing a nice little outfit and walking 15 mins to buy just enough groceries for a single dinner will make you feel like Mrs. Dalloway going to the market.

– @dieworkwear

I don’t care if I’m popular, I’m just going to do this. I’m a lifer in this. I’m going to do this forever.

In choosing how we are in the world, we shape our experience of that world, our contribution to it. We shape our world, our inner world, our outer world, which is really the only one we’ll ever know. And to me, that’s the substance of the spiritual journey. That’s not an exasperating idea but an infinitely emboldening one.