The speaker explores the thin space—the present between past and future—using personal Cadre stories, sensory details from a Florida conference and a friend’s performance, and invites listeners to notice and stay in the present moment.
The host opens with warm Sunday greetings, checks in on viewers, and shares that he is in Florida for a conference. He offers reassurance that the Cadre community is a place for support and connection when you need it.
He describes approaching three years in the Cadre Sphere and comments on how time can feel both long and short. The host introduces a friend's performance and their shared history as context for these reflections.
The speaker defines the thin space as the present moment between past and future and illustrates it with immediate, concrete examples of where he is and what he sees. The examples ground the concept and invite listeners to notice the present.
He connects the thin space idea to Sunday as a liminal time between weekend and week, cautioning against worrying about the future or dwelling on the past. The segment concludes with an encouragement to focus on today and a brief sign-off.
Well, hey, good morning, CADRE. How are we doing on this Sunday morning? I hope you are swell. K Barak, how are you, my friend? Nice to see you on this Sunday. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on, I hope you are well. I am down in Florida for a conference. It is sunny, it is warm. And I hope where you are, it is at least theoretically sunny inside your head and your heart and warm with the love and the support that you have around you. But a reminder that even if you're not in a space like that, hey, hey, ball game, nice to see you, my friend.
Even if you're not in a sunny and warm place, that's one of the reasons sometimes why we bop into the cadre sphere. You know, you can find support, connection, resource, conversation, all of those things right here whenever you need it. You know, I'm coming up on three years being a part of this lovely, lovely Cadre Sphere community. And like many things, time, Time is malleable, right? There's times where three years feels like 30 and there's times where three years feels like 15 minutes. And it's been so great to be in this space with you.
Emily, nice to see you, my friend. Two days ago, so on Friday, I got to go to a performance that was crafted and created and conducted by one of my nearest and dearest friends. She was in my wedding party, that good of a friend. And we met back in 2006. So 20 years ago. She was the high school choir teacher and subsequently the one managing kind of the theatrical activities at a school that I worked at for a long time. Well, she announced about a week and a half ago that she it's time for her to move on.
She's got a new job. She's moving to a new state and it's happening now. So all of a sudden me and other people are like, wait a minute, friend, you like I was I jumped into her system literally right when she was in her first full year. So I was kind of the theater director the ultimate theater director from the start. And then as I moved on about seven years later, then the story continued. But it's interesting because I was thinking and saying, wow, 20 years, where did that go? And as we often talk about on Sundays, that's the thin space idea, right?
Part of the reason why time moves fast and time moves slow is because a lot of times we're living before time. You know, where we're looking in the past, or we're living after time, you know, we're living in the future. Maybe you look at that the other way. Sometimes where we're living before time, meaning like we're living in the future, we're living before it happens, or we're living after time, as in we're looking back to the past. The thin space is that space in between. The space where you go, Huh, right now, this is where I am.
Right now, I'm sitting on a bench next to a garbage can, which is right in front of me. I'm sitting next to these cones behind me where it looks like maybe a water main's busted or something. This is my hotel, and that's the broken water main. I was like, ah, what's happening? Right now, I'm sitting here with you, Emily, and KB Rock, and ball game, right? This is the moment that I'm in. It's amazing because I think about me and my friend and the times where we were literally seeing each other day in and day out.
And then chapters where we wouldn't see each other for months and months and months and months and we go, huh. All of that time is the inconsequential thing. It's the things happening during that time that allow you to go, so what is this? What do we do with this? Thin space is the space in between all that has been and all that will be. Between the good and the bad, the light and the dark, the hard and the easy. The reason why thin space was the Sunday cadre today theme for so long is Sunday is a thin space.
The weekend has not ended yet, y'all, but the week has yet to begin. You could also think of that the other way, right? It's Sunday, the weekend is more behind you than it is in front of you. So maybe you go, I don't have any weekend left. And even though the week has not begun, maybe you're already thinking and worrying and planning all those things that have to happen tomorrow. You can't do tomorrow yet. You can't do yesterday ever again. So how about you do today? I'll talk to you later.
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