Harbor Pilots

Okay, the live has started. Hello, Cadre. It's two minutes before my normal time. I'm a little bit early on purpose because I'm trying to get everything all set up. So I'm gonna turn my camera so you can see my little walkway. This is my three year old granddaughter's little play playhouse, and I have this lovely yard that borders my apartment, and I feed my wild birds. Yeah, you're gonna see some of me in this because I've got it upside down and sideways. The whole purpose of today's Cadre presentation is to show you how to make a paper boat.

And so I'm going to mount this on my camera, and you will cease to see my face for a little bit. Okay. It is still two minutes before the hour, so I am going to actually begin folding in now. 1 minute. So be patient while I mount this camera, and hopefully it'll pick up what I'm doing in the folding here. Don't mind my hand. I just got to put this on here. Okay. There should be an anchor in your view. There it is. Yep. Okay. Looks like everything will be. Whoa. Will be available to see as I fold the boat.

Come up here. Okay, folks, 1 minute to go time. I would be talking to you, but those who join on time or at the appointed time would miss out. Don't want that. It is 11:00 welcome to the cadres. I'm Kathy Joy. My Cadre handle is speak wonder, and I am your harbor pilot on caregiver day. I really enjoy connecting with you in community, in solidarity, in empathy and understanding as we caregive those we love. Sometimes it's difficult. Sometimes we feel a little fragile, and sometimes we need a playful spirit.

Cue the boats. You ready? I didn't give you a lot of lead time, but in the community chat, I did ask you to grab an eight and a half by eleven sheet of paper copy. Paper works great. We're just going to do the basics today. If you don't have it with you, you can always do this on the replay. Grab a kiddo if you have one nearby. Children love to do this. Ready? Okay. I'm gonna put my phone down toward my work table here in the garden. I'm coming to you live from Erie, Pa. Where beautiful boats are still harbored near the lake and people are still boating for a couple months yet before the harsh weather comes in.

Here's my eight and a half by eleven paper. First thing we do, fold it this way. Make a nice crease. You could call this an origami boat. Paper boat. Just check your crease. Now turn it this way with your loose ends down here on the bottom. And fold it across this way. Okay. You want to make sure these two sides can flap open. How am I doing here? Looks like everything's in the view finder here. So then you fold these beautiful triangles, very simple, make a nice crease, come to the middle and form an alignment.

This is going to become your sail or your master. And you take these loose ends, fold one flap up. These little buggers, you want to tuck them in. So I would suggest turning the whole thing over to face you and put the corners flush with the sides like so. Now you're already have this flipped over. So fold the other flap up again with the corners. You want to tuck them in. Make the creases nice and even. Nice and flat. Remember those fold up notes we used to do in school? All right, now, after you've done this and you now have a diamond shape, you're going to come up about a little more than halfway up.

You don't want to come completely up. Leave some border right here. Flip it over, do the same thing about halfway to three quarters up, leaving a border. And we are almost to boat float your boat time. Just do this. And you pull these gently pull these ends out, and you have a paper boat. It's your basic floating boat. There you go. See? Now I'm going to remove my desk and demonstrate the floatability of these boats. This is my birdbath. I don't think the birds will be too perplexed if I sail a few boats here.

Here's a little one. Here's a little tiny one made. I can't get in the finder. This is made by a five and a half, by three and a half paper. And it's a map. Something I've tried lately is taking road maps, cutting them up and making them into boats because to me that's a terrific symbol of a harbor pilot. Now you'll see these larger boats are already waterlogged. If I left them in here, you know, for another 510 minutes, they'd probably list and seek. But for now, they're great. I can remember taking my kiddos out after a good rain when we lived out in Colorado.

And the rain would fill the gutters in the little streams and we would fold aluminum boats. So you can take the same idea, measure an eight and a half by eleven piece of aluminum. And those are pretty sturdy. They'll hold up in the water for a little while. So I'm going to turn this around and address you. And not seeing any comments. I sure hope I'm on the live. All I see is debug and stop. So I hope it took, because, you guys, I set up this garden for this event. Here's my little garden frog. Hey, froggy.

Froggy. He's overseeing the floating of the boats, if you're catching me on the replay. Thank you. And the reason? Several reasons. One was we just needed to play today. It's been, you know, it's been rough this week. You know, the news is not great. It's just been kind of a tough week, at least in my corner of the world, in Erie, Pennsylvania. And yet there are rivulets of joy and there are streams where we can float our boats and be playful. I have a friend who interviewed for a really high, high profile job in county government.

Her name is Wendy. She's a hoot. Wendy had a hunch that the staff where she was interviewing the whole board of directors interviewed her, mind you, not one individual, but like twelve people at a staff meeting. This was her cold interview. And she decided rather than doing a formal presentation, she would teach them how to fold paper in origami. And she chose jumping frogs, which I'm no master at that, but origami frogs. And she had them jumping them across the table. She was hired because the boss of that staff realized they needed a worker with a sense of playfulness.

Professionalism, yes, but playful also. Introduce play into your caregiving. It will pivot the day into more positive light and it'll delight those that are needing to have a playful time. That is the simplicity of today's Cadre. Have some fun, take a break, do something creative, something you enjoy. And I'll see you next time here on the cadres fear. Next week we're going to pull boats again, but there'll be other stuff, too. See you then. It's.