The Thin Space

Well, hi everybody. Happy Sunday. JC here, I'm taking Colleen's lead. I saw Colleen on her live stream on Thursday this week. Sign in like a minute early. As long as you could say hello to everybody, people could have some time to show up before we started talking about the thing. So I figured I would do the same thing today. This also allows me a moment to take a bite of my Sunday donut before we start talking. So. Oh my gosh. Colleen, did you hear what I just said? I literally just referenced you, Cleen.

I sense. I sensed you here. Steph, good morning. Good morning, my savannah friend. As I mentioned, I'm taking a moment to sign in before so I could say hello to people like Steph and Luke and clean before we start with thin space on Sunday morning. Oh my gosh. It is now officially the top of the hour. m.. Yes. See you later for a little bit of sauna and cold plunge, mister Luke. On Sunday we talk about self care. So you're going to see later on today, you see, my friend Jean, you're probably going to see some wonderful people hopping on in the later part of the day.

Daryl, Jason, Evan. Sunday is all about risking to take care of yourself in a world that says the noble thing to do is to grind yourself into the ground. Grinding is good when you need to grind. Kindness is good when you have the opportunity to kind. So you get a little bit of encouragement to go, what are you doing to actually make sure that you are ready to do the wonderful things you can do in this world. Again, my name is JC Lippold. Thanks for the opportunity to share space with you. It truly is a pleasure to share space with you, whether you know that or not, whether that makes you uncomfortable or not.

To know that you change the world for the better. Deal with it, my friends. So I talk about thin space, the space between things that have happened and the things that will happen in that space. In between. There's power. So Sundays kind of the end of the weekend, maybe you go, gosh, I wish it was Friday again, or I wish I had more time to rest before I started thinking about that week ahead. At the same time, the week ahead hadn't started yet. So I'm coming to you as I often do for my automobile, my Mazda three hatchback, because I'm often in the thin space of being in one place and another place on Sunday mornings.

I am a church musician. I have had a job in a church since I was eight. I am 42 years old. You can do the math. So every Sunday I've had to get up and either go be an altar person or a youth director or a musician sitting at the piano bench today, I want you to think about what are the things that accompany you in the thin space? Donuts from cub foods. That's a big one for me. On Sunday morning. Quite often, one of the things I look most forward to is this friendly little donut from the neighborhood grocery store.

It's something that I find within the space where all of a sudden, for example, when I have to, or when I get to engage within the church space, when it's taking some time from the weekend when my mind is going, oh my gosh, what do I have tomorrow and Monday? And I'm also mourning what I still wish was maybe happening from a time of peace or rest or joy on the weekend. I find this donut here. What accompanies you in your thin space moments? I was reminded of another one yesterday, so I was recording some podcasts with my friends Jodie Farr and Leslie Bonsi and Jaton White.

I've known of Jody for a long time, but we finally just met this weekend. All of a sudden we're getting to know each other, and I'm talking about being a polish catholic kid from northeast Minneapolis. And all of a sudden Jody goes, wait, is that the church where they make the. She starts making the kind of the shape of a dumpling with her hand. I'm like, podogi? She's like, yeah, yeah. Is that the church that would make the podogi a couple times a year? And I go, yes, my family. So growing up, my family two times a year would make a thousand dozen pudogi and sell them to the community.

As a child, I made over 1 million pierogi as a part of this fundraiser. I hadn't thought about it in years. Jodi reminded me of the smells, the tastes, the relationships, the way that the light would come through the church windows. And twice a year as a polish Catholic kid, we would make pinogee and sell them to the community. Me and Jody had already crossed paths decades ago. I was reminded of the joy of the thin space. What accompanies your journey in the thin spaces? I'm a person who loves going to the airport.

I'm a person who loves doing tour groups whenever I'm on a vacation. I love sitting in tour buses and subways. I love being in the space to go. And like, right now, I get to look out the window right now. I get to sit in this chair and charge my phone and wait. Because in that moment, in the thin space, we think different thoughts. In the thin space, we have a different perspective because our relationship, our agency is different. The things we have control over is different. In the thin space, there are certain songs that come to mind in my head when I'm in the thin space, there's a band.

Their name is Balmora. B a l m o r h e a. Balmora. Balmora is my thin space jam music. Every time I hear it, I go, mmm. Right now, I have the opportunity to be in a space where I see and think about things differently, whether it be this donut, whether it be me being in my automobile as I drive halfway to church, stop at the grocery store to get my donut, to do this live stream, to spend time with you, Steph, and you, Jules, and you, Colleen, and you, Luke, and everyone who tunes in here, because I'll let you know, too.

Cadre accompanies you in the thin space. When you find yourself in a space in between you losing control and finding it again. When you find yourself in a space of not knowing the answer and struggling with that and finding a little bit of nourishment to continue on, on that journey, Cadre finds you in that. When you find yourself in between things that have happened and things that have not happened yet, being able to have this right here is a really powerful tool to help you see the opportunity at hand.

So, everybody, whether it's right now or 3 hours from now or three days from now, I invite you to type into the chat here. What are the things that accompany you in the thin space? What song? What consumable goodness. What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel? What accompanies you? Or what do you find when you enter the space in between things that have happened and things that have not happened yet? As you write that here, other people are going to go, oh, that helps me think about mine.

That helps me consider things that I have not considered yet. That in itself is a gift of the thin space. Say hey to my friends later on today on self care Sunday, and I will see you again tomorrow on professional development Monday with people like my friend Luke right here. Everybody. Thank you for being in the thin space with me. Thank you for being a part of the Cadre sphere, because, by golly, I certainly benefit from it. I hope you do, too. Talk to you soon. Bye.