Like a sitcom from the 80s and 90s, every person is innately tied to their family members in the best and most difficult of ways. JC, a millennial with 6 Gen X siblings, a boomer mother and a greatest generation dad talks about taking care of the ties that bind.
JC Lippold: Happy Thursday. It's been one of those days. I think Thursdays here have really, have really matured in a beautiful way in the Cadre sphere. Check out Shannon, who kicked off this morning and then clean and then speak wonder. Miss Shannon and I'll wrap up our caregiver day here.
MacGyver talks about family ties, the ties that bind us to either our biological family or our chosen family. It's those people who are closest to us who we can often get loudest with. Like a good rerun, sometimes there's humor, there's jokes and there's things that stick with you.
This isn't a song from a sitcom, but it's kind of from the sitcom of my life. What are those things in your life that can get you to that place? Where you remember something. You are impacting the US as much as the US is impacting the you.
Well, hey. Hey there, Cadre. Happy Thursday. I hope you're doing all right. And even if you're not, that's all right, too. It's kind of my favorite thing about this space, about Cadre, right. The prerequisite for being here is you being a human who is living this life and understand that there's many, many ways of wellness. As moments go on today, I've had little moments of time. I got to jump in and watch Chummerberry. We've never met before, but chummerberry, I love your name, Chummerberry. You just made my day with your name.
Hi, Rhonda. Hey, Miss Shannon. I was just gonna say it's been one of those days. Hi, Amy. Nice to see you. I haven't seen you since me, you and Miss Shannon, we're all in the same room together at I heart for our respect event. It's nice to see you. Pop on in. Can you see how my energy just kind of changed? It's kind of a gloomy day. I take my glasses off because you can see, if I don't take my glasses off, then you can see my. My gloomy day ring light here. Kind of get. Get all alien eyed. But it's been one of those days, and I haven't had the most amount of time to do a little inward facing care.
But I got to jump on and watch the replay of Miss Shannon's live stream from, I think, a couple hours ago. I watched it just a little bit ago. Now Miss Shannon is bopped on here, and we get to influence one another's days. So before I jump in, I simply want to share my appreciation. I think Thursdays here have really, have really matured in a beautiful way in the Cadre sphere. So if you're looking for a little extra scoop of connection today, check out Shannon, who kicked off this morning and then clean and then speak wonder.
Miss Shannon and I'll go and wrap up our caregiver day here in the Cadre sphere. But no. Right. You have resources here. Scroll, click, wander, and see what you find. My name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you. It is a gift to spend time with you. And like a broken record, I will remind you of that every single time I jump into live here. At the end of caregiver day, I spend a little bit of time here with you talking about family ties, the ties that bind us to either our biological family or our chosen family.
It is the weekend coming up here, where we celebrate pride in the Minneapolis St. Paul area where I live. And as we know, a lot of people have to choose their families. We think about all of you who've maybe had to do that wonderful work of going, who are my people? In this family ties livestream? We talk about that, the ties that bind us to the people who are in that sphere of influence, of impact, those people who can get to us in the best and sometimes the worst of ways. Family ties is also the title of a wonderful sitcom from the late eighties.
And quite often when I jump on here, I bring out the piano a little bit to tap into, whether it be theme song from sitcom or songs from my past and maybe from your past, that tie us again to those energies of those people that color our stories in the way that are very uniquely us. So I am the one millennial in my family with six gen x siblings, with a baby boomer mother and a greatest generation father. And I am, in a lot of ways, the caretaker of my parents and my older three siblings, as they are still wonderfully so, living relatively independent lives.
But as we know, we never know when those roles are going to change and shift. And I have the wonderful honor of every six months moving my parents down to Florida, where the weather is better suited for their current physical and mental states. And then every six months, I move them back up here to Minnesota, right down the road. And I take it to heart to have the opportunity to, to be in that space of care when they need it. Well, like a good sitcom, actually, both my mother and my father. But my mother comes to mind this past week, there's been a lot of times where it feels like I've been watching a rerun with my mom, where the same pathways of requests or conversations or arguments come to the forefront.
And I go, I feel like I've been here, here before. I feel like we've had this conversation, and as we know, let me know if this resonates. It's those people who are closest to us who we can often get loudest with. We can get most frustrated with, we can get most colorful with in the way that we express what we want to express. And like a good rerun, sometimes there's, there's humor, there's jokes, there's, there's things that stick with you. Well, last week I got a call frantic from my mother saying that her Facebook was, something was up with her Facebook.
And even though technology is often reserved for maybe the younger generations in the capacity to be confident with it, I'll tell you, my mom is one of the most tech savvy people I know, especially when it comes to social media. But my mom had someone sneak into her Facebook in one way or another and was attempting to hack it. And this person spoke German. I'd love to say this was the first time that I've gotten to do the frantic attempting to macgyver and save my mother's family, which is really important to her.
It's the way she connects with friends that she doesn't get to see often or ever. But it was the first time I had to do it with my Google translate open to translate German into English, to try to figure out how to quickly change and regrasp the Facebook from whoever was trying to steal it. And it's so interesting because I find myself, in moments, wanting to get frustrated, and I'm like, oh, mom, of course this is happening because you did this or you did this, and all of a sudden, people can sneak in and they can steal your information.
And I find myself on the edge and sometimes going over the edge of getting frustrated. And then I go, ah, what's really happening here? Someone that I care about is in the a reactionary place where something's happening. And in that moment, the reaction is to go, who are my people? Who can be with me in this thing? That's the basis of so much situational comedy. Little things that become big things. Little things that cycle again and again and again and again and can create those moments of conflict or however they presented.
Because, of course, we can show so much of our real selves with those people who know quite a bit of our real selves. Well, as the moment went on, Facebook was saved from the German. We lived to Facebook for another day. This morning, all of a sudden, my mom's like, ah, my contacts are gone from my cell phone, and I'm in that moment. You're a multilingual MacGyver. I. Oh, what was. Okay, what's MacGyver's name? It's three names. I have Neil Patrick Harris in my head, but that's doogie Howser. It's something like that, though, right?
Someone help me out. If you remember the gentleman who played MacGyver. Something. Something is his last name Harris? Is that why my brain's going there? I'm back this morning, my mom. The contacts disappeared from her phone. And again, I was just in this moment where I'm like. And it felt like I was watching that rerun again. Richard Dean Anderson. Thank you. Oh, Miss Shannon. Paul. What is it about people with three names? Miss Shannon? Paul. Neil Patrick Harris. Richard Dean Anderson. The trifecta.
The triune deity of all things good in this world. Think about those people who you are, maybe in those relationships with. Maybe it is caregiver, maybe it's not caregiver yet, as we always say. How many people never sign up to be one of the 55 million unpaid caregivers in the United States? It happens. And I think there's a little bit of glimmer, a little bit of preciousness to. To tap into within these moments where we go. Marisa. Thank you. See, everybody remembers MacGyver's name. Irene. See, but I am the one.
Millennial, I guarantee you at least. So one of my sisters, big Richard Dean Anderson. Like, crush, like. Still to this day. It's in these moments where the frustration can happen, where we feel like we're living that rerun again and again and again and again and again. Something special is happening when those people who can get into us, can get under our skin, even if it's not their intention. What is that? Going around that circle again and again and again. There's safety, there's love. There's someone knowing that they can do it with you.
They may not be able to do with other people. So as music often provides us the space to think about those things. This isn't a song from a sitcom, but it's kind of from the sitcom of my life. Growing up, one of my favorite artists that we had listened to on cassette tape as we would drive around was Harry Chapin. Harry Chapin would always say, I have trouble getting my songs on the radio because my songs are too long. But there's so many great songs that the cat's cradle Harry Chapin has, and this is actually not a super long one.
It's called circle. So it goes around again and again and again. And while this is from the sitcom of my life, listen to the message. All my life's a circle, sunrise and sundown the moon rolls through the night time till the daybreak comes round all my life's a circle but I can't tell you why the season's spinning round again years keep rolling bye. I found you a thousand times I guess you've done the same but then we lose each other it's just like a children's game but as I find you here again the thought rolls through my mind our love is like a circle let's go around one more time.
What are those things in your life that can get you to that place? Where you remember something. And in that moment, no matter what comes out, whether it's the frustration, the anger, the thing you regret, or the moment that you hold on to forever and ever, there's a little bit of a gift and the fact that we get to be in that circle again and again and again. So tonight I'll probably put on some reruns and go, hmm, something comfortable here. There's something special here. Familiar here. Whether it be that d*** German who broke into my mom's Facebook or apple doing an update that made my mom's contacts go away.
What a gift. Annoying. Frustrating. Beautiful, familiar gift. Yeah. I'll be back here again on Saturday on personal growth and Development Day. The great thing is, there's always someone here. You are included in that, someone. You are impacting the US as much as the US is impacting the you. Never forget that, y'all. Oh, Amy, believe me, I know. Family ties. Jiminy Cricket. Such a good show. I think next week we'll rerun and I'll go ahead and sing a little family ties theme song for us next week.
Y'all have a great rest of your day. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on. We'll see you in the Cadre sphere again. Peace.
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