Sail on in for encouragement during this voyage called Caregiving.
Hello cadre. Let's see, my friend Randy is on here. Hello. Although I'm Kathy joy. Um, my cadre handle is speak. Wonder. Because I like to take words. And mold them into poetry and pithy phrases that are meaningful. For you. My, um, favorite topic. On the cadre is Harbor pilots. And I talk about them on Thursday. Caregiver day. You are a Harbor pilot. Whether you are landlocked. Or next to a Harbor. I happen to be next to one. I live in Erie, Penn. Pennsylvania. If you look at a map of Pennsylvania, there's a chimney to the upper.
Left and I live in that chimney next to the peninsula. On lake Erie, we have 11 beaches. You guys. 11 beaches and a gorgeous Harbor. Where in the summer you'll find a regatta. Or pleasure ships like there is the scallywag, which is a pirate trip. There is princess Victoria, which is a paddle boat. And, uh, there is the lady Kate. Which is a tour boat and gives you the history. Of Erie Harbor. And lake Erie and all things. You are the pilot. To me. You show up here for my lives and for my replay.
I appreciate you Harbor pilot. By definition. Is a sailing vessel. Vessels out to help the incoming vessel. Navigate troubled waters. Waters and come in to safe Harbor. Andy joys in the house. I am in parked in front of my favorite. Coffee shop the buzz cafe. My notes are inside and. Breakfast is waiting for me. So. I'm going to make this short. Because I wanna eat my omelet while it's hot. And, um, oh, what kind you say it's smoke Kabai with mushrooms and onions. And eggs and Ry toast and home fries.
Ooh. Yeah. Breakfast of champions. Champions, ah, that breakfast is waiting for me. Inside the coffee shop are all my notes. All my thoughts, my wanderings. Wanderings my ideas to share with you. And so they're over there across the parking lot and I'm in here. In my car because their wifi is down. I didn't know till I opened my phone. And wanted to go live that this was a problem. So just put my phone on, do not. Disturb am I still on? Yes, I am. (laugh). Multitasking, not really. My thing. So this will be a short broadcast.
And, um, the only thing that's foremost on my mind is. To give yourself. Um, permission to rest to be at rest. To, uh, curl up under a Fort blanket, if you need to, or blanket Fort, whatever. Uh, to hunker down. Hunker down. Uh, curl up and give yourself some solace. If you need it. Um, your body keeps the score and your body knows what you need. My body went into, um, illness two days ago and I'm still getting over it. You can probably see it in my eyes. I have a head cold and today two days in it's much better.
But my body is telling me to rest. And so I am. I cancelled everything yesterday and today. Um, I showed up for you. (laugh). Because, you know, I'm not carrying germs into the cadre. Uh, just a gentle reminder. That as a caregiver in whatever capacity you're filling. Give yourself respite and hunker down. When you need to listen to your body. It's telling you that your immune system needs a restart. That you need to bolster up with. Fruit juice and vitamin C and lots of rest. Don't let yourself get run down.
How can you be of service to others when you're not, um, ministering to yourself? It's healthy to do so. Um, you might detect a little sadness in my demeanor today, I just found out that a friend. Passed away and go miss her. Yeah. It's hard to to get that news kind of from left field, if you will not expecting it. Um, so my body is telling me to give myself space for grieving. For remembering and I wanna end on a good note. I wanna tell you that. Um, Ms. Shannon, Paul will be on. At three Eastern, uh, comedy through the chaos.
She's always a treat. Make sure you tune in or do the replay. I want to, um, talk about the things that are in my notes, in the coffee shop, but I can't. Can't do them justice by trying to remember them. And I really wanna get to my omelet. (laugh) so that's about all I have today. Um, I'll leave you with a funny poem that my mom likes to say. Uh, she's, (laugh), it's really a nonsensical poem. In one of the shortest pieces of poetry. I know. And it's about ketchup. Ketchup ketchup in the bottle.
None will come. And then a lot. Lotto. That's my content today. (laugh) squeeze the ketchup, ketchup on your wrist. And, uh, be the strongest you for the people you're serving. See you next week here in the cadres sphere.
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