Cadre Today and Family Ties

Hey, hey. Good morning. Good morning, Cadre. A little Robert plant, Allison Krause to get your day started. Well, if you're listening in the morning, if you're listening some other time, it's a good little tune. Good morning, everybody. Nice to see you. Coming on into the room, a little music in the background as you come on in. Find your proverbial seat, your proverbial cup of coffee for a little. Hey, hey. Nice to see you. All right, a little fade out. Well, nice to see you, everybody. This is Cadre today, and my name is JC.

If we've never shared time and space together before, it's nice to see you. I hope you're okay, and if you're not, that's okay, too. The cool thing about Cadre is no matter how you are, no matter what's going on, this is a great place to be, eh, Cadre? You have a space with people who you know and people who you don't know yet. That's what I like to call strangers that are here to remind you that the way that you're attempting to navigate and dance through the world is noble and beautiful and right.

And if you're going like, ah, something's off, you can recalibrate, you can learn, you can. You can find different pathways, different things to try right here. On Thursdays, you have a lot of really wonderful humans who talk to you about different perspectives on caring for other people. It's always really easy to remember who you're gonna see throughout the day. You got double s in the morning, double s in the afternoon, and you got c in the middle, so you got Steph and Shannon in the morning.

You got Colleen in the middle. And the cool thing is, Colleen talks about being in the sandwich generation. So Colleen takes care of her children and her parents, and then you got another double s in the afternoon with speak wonder. You see harbor pilot who messaged a little bit earlier, a wonderful author storyteller spirit, who uses the analogy of being on the banks of Lake Erie to go, how do we navigate the world as we look at one of the 25 largest lakes on our planet? I know that because social media told me that recently.

And then we wrap it up with none other than miss Shannon Paul, who, funny enough, I will be getting to see this evening on stage, lead live auctions and tell some comedy at an event. Because the cool thing, all these people, all these people that we see here are people who are out in the world. Well, hey, like I say, we talk about caregiving here on Thursdays, and the cool thing is, you're like, oh, I'm not a caregiver. I'm like, yeah, you are. You always have the opportunity. You always have the opportunity to go ahead and influence someone else's existence and to offer a little bit of care if you were here at the top of the live stream, I was playing a little Alison Krause and Robert plant.

Allison Krause is my dad's family favorite voice on this planet. And I got to take my dad to his first concert ever, and it was Allison Krause and Robert plant earlier on this, well, I guess it's not summer anymore, but this past summer, and last night, I got to take my dad to his first women's basketball game. Go links. But the cool thing is, my dad is someone who has lived through the world, continuing to change. And as we get older, the world that we know changes. My dad's been told that the city that he worked in, Minneapolis, is different and a place that.

That he shouldn't go anymore and that it's not safe and that he's not gonna recognize it. Last night, on purpose, so I'm called to be the one who watches over my parents. And I was like, hey, dad, do you wanna go to play f game? Do you wanna go to sports ball? Do you want to do something with your kid? Like, checking all the boxes of, like, oh, this sounds great, but also, you can sense it's like, ah, you don't go. You don't go downtown at night because the news station says it's the bad place. And all of a sudden, we went early, and we went to a beautiful rooftop and.

And had a beverage and took pictures and walked the old streets and walked past his old building where he used to work and then took the long way to walk after the game finished. And we're walking back at 11:00 at night, and it's peaceful. And it's in these moments where we have the opportunity to invite those people that we care for to walk through this world, to walk alongside them and to go, hey, what do you need to see? What do you need to learn? Because so often, the world won't walk alongside them.

Shannon, I think of, you know, stories you talk about with people that you care give and the way that you go. Okay, okay. You know, and the things that they offer back to you when they have their moments, to have their realizations and their experiences. And that's what we do. We have the opportunity to walk alongside our people as they experience life and go, oh, because my dad's like, I wouldn't have had this experience if we hadn't. And I go, I took my dad to his first concert this summer. I took my dad to his first women's basketball game.

I took my dad back into his city. I took my dadadadada. And is that me being this amazing person? It's like I'm doing what I would hope I could do for my dad. But also, it's not a heavy lift. It's doing the walking alongside. So I invite you today to walk alongside. Walk alongside those people. Listen to them. What do they want to do? Where do they want to go? What experiences do they want to have? Be there. Celebrate with them. Listen and watch. All right, y'all, the SSC ss sandwich is coming up today.

You'll see Steph in just a little bit, and I'll be back tomorrow morning. Have a good one, everybody.