JC reflects on keeping notebooks and paper calendars as artifacts of lived life, encouraging viewers to revisit handwritten notes and reminders as evidence of growth and stories worth honoring.
The host opens with a warm greeting, asks how viewers are doing, and reassures them that it's okay not to feel fine. He affirms their worth and asks practical reflective questions about current needs and capacity.
The speaker describes Cadre as a supportive space run by everyday people rather than experts and introduces himself as JC. He notes the group's intention, his experience doing these messages for years, and welcomes both new and returning viewers.
JC explains his annual fall cleaning habit of sorting and letting go of items while always keeping notebooks and paper calendars. He sets up the anecdote about why those handwritten items matter to him.
He opens notebooks and notices pages full of scribbles that act as tangible evidence of past thoughts, ideas, and feelings. The segment emphasizes the power of handwritten remembrances alongside photos and mementos.
Using Kurt Vonnegut as an example of authored evidence, the host encourages viewers to look through their notes and to start writing or recording things. He invites people to create their own artifacts of life to look back on later.
A brief farewell that wraps up the message and lets viewers know the series will continue tomorrow.
Triple B, good morning, good afternoon. Put your hand in mind today, Cadre. I hope you're doing great, but if you're not, here's your daily reminder. That is A-OK as well. You are still incredibly capable, still incredibly worthy, and you're probably still going to accomplish some pretty remarkable things today. The prerequisite for life is not to have all your stuff together all the time, but to go, what do I have right now? Where am I right now? What do I need right now? What can I give right now?
Cadre is your space that reminds you that there are many ways to be well, And each contributor, we're not experts, we're not influencers. We're people living life and risking with courage and curiosity to share what we got and what we're experiencing. So hey, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know the things I know and I care about you. My name is JC and I'm your everyday Cadre Today voice right here. It's been over three years since we've been doing this thing together. How fun is that?
So this is your day one. Welcome to the Cadre, this special group of people with a special intention. If you've been here for a while, Welcome back. So fall is normally my spring cleaning time. For some reason in fall, fall is the time I like putting stuff away and sending off in the world things that I no longer need to have in my possession. But I'll tell you, every single year when I open up the boxes and I sort through the things, the one thing that I never, ever, ever get rid of or repurpose are all of the notebooks and paper calendars that I've used over the years.
It's amazing. I open up each one and then I look at all the scribbles and every single page has scribbles on it and I go, I don't remember writing all these things down, all these notes and all these meanings, all these ideas and plans and pictures and things that mean nothing to me now and maybe they meant something to me then. There's something really powerful about seeing the artifacts, the evidence of life lived. Yeah, we see that in photographs, we see that in mementos, but there's something about our handwritten remembrances, the evidence that we have lived.
That's my invitation for you today. Go ahead and look around at the stacks of post-it notes and the schedules I mean, literally, I could literally pick up 90,000 little notebooks that are laying around or individual pieces of paper or legal pads. Oh my gosh. Understand that each of those little words, those little letters, those little characters that you put down are part of your story. Because sometimes we go and say, gosh, I'm not doing anything. I'm not going anywhere. And then we look at the evidence.
We look at the evidence of the life lived, the thoughts thought, the feelings felt. And we go, yeah, there it is. Write things down or type things down or put things into an app on your phone. And every once in a while, look back and go, oh yeah, there I am. It's funny, over my left shoulder here, you can see Kurt Vonnegut sitting on the side of his bed smoking a cigar. Kurt Vonnegut's one of my favorite authors of all time, and it's funny that I just like, oh, there's Kurt. Can you look at some of the stuff that Kurt wrote?
If you've never read any of his books or any of his short stories, do so. Some of them are very weird. But you go, they're evidence. They're evidence of the life lived. So, create some evidence today, y'all. We'll see you tomorrow.
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