Kate Smalley
@katesmalley
Small Business Advisor & Educator.
Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.
Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.
Kate Smalley
katesmalley.com
"To resist in place is to make oneself into a shape that cannot so easily be appropriated by a capitalist value system."
— Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing
Conceiving of something as a gift changes your relationship to it in a profound way, even though the physical makeup of the “thing” has not changed. A wooly knit hat that you purchase at the store will keep you warm regardless of its origin, but if it was hand knit by your favorite auntie, then you are in relationship to that “thing” in a very diff
... See moreRobin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been through hell.
Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
"We cannot hurry the river."
— Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
Words are really honest presences. They always show what’s going on. Show me the words you use and I’ll have a fair ideas of what’s happening or not happening with you.
On Being • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
What qualities in myself have never met? What two qualities in myself have I never put together. What distances could I travel if I actually brought parts of me together that have never spoken?