JC leads a Friday conversation about loss and memory, sharing his work as music director of Alive and Kickin, a senior rock ensemble, and mentioning today's concert. He reflects on friends who have died and a fix for the disappearing chat.
JC is the music director of a senior citizen rock ensemble. Alive and Kickin was started 15 years ago to give voices back to generations. People die in alive and kickin quite often. The disappearing chat is going to stop disappearing.
Impersonation is the greatest sign of respect. St. Croix hospice will be signing on this afternoon. Our memories of those who have passed away keeps them alive for a few moments when we need them.
Well, hey, hey. Hey there, Cadre. How are you? By golly, I hope you are good. Hey, even if you're not, that's okay, too. If you're good, that's great. If you're not good, it's great. Eh, I feel great. But it's great that you're here for a couple reasons. Number one, we love seeing you. You make our days better. And number two, it's great that you're giving yourself something. You're giving yourself tools and toys and energy and stimuli to go ahead and go. Ooh. So now where do I go? My name is JC.
If we've never shared time and space together before, it's nice to see you, Jules. Good morning, sunshine. Speak, wonder. Hello from your harbor life. Nice to see you. Speak wonder. I am sitting in my mazda in a parking lot. I think I win the award for the least exciting places where I do my live streams from. I'm normally in my dirty mazda in a grocery store parking lot, or in my. My dirty office, or in a hotel or an airport sitting on the floor. And that's wonderful. But it's always in those moments of, ah, in transition, in between.
That's. Again, I love that about Cadre. We can say, hey, you know what? I have a couple minutes. How about we take that moment and connect? Change each other's lives. Nice to see you, Luke. So, hey, on Fridays, we talk about a real human thing. The reality that everything we have is not permanent, that we will lose stuff. And because we will lose stuff, we will grieve the act of losing. I don't know if I ever shared this part of my life, but I am the music director of a senior citizen rock ensemble.
Yeah, it's a non profit group called Alive and Kickin. It started 15 years ago. Junk food junkie. Guess what? The disappearing chat is going to stop disappearing. It's being refixed, and I'm glad I was able to see it before it disappeared. Your comment. So thank you for saying that. The disappearing chat will be undisappearing again very soon. You won't have to grieve the loss of the chat soon. So live and Kickin was started about 15 years ago to give voices back to generations that are kind of told.
It's like, hey, you're old now. Retire and be quiet by using rock music to say, hey, you know, like Mick Jagger, we think of as a rock star. But your grandparents we think of as your grandparents. No matter how old Mick Jagger is, he will always be a rock star. Your grandparents, once they hit that age. It's like, oh, now you're my grandparent. Stop. Stop. Simply be old. So alive and kicking senior citizen rock ensemble. We sing rock music. We sing zeppelin. We sing death leopard. We sing queen.
Anyways, we have a concert today. People die in alive and kickin quite often. And by quite often, I mean, I've been a part of this group for about two and a half years, and I've had seven friends pass away. One of them, his name's Bruce. I love Bruce. Bruce always found my jokes funny. And even if he didn't, he understood when I was telling a joke. So Bruce would be the one, you know, when I'd be leading rehearsal, whenever I would tell a joke, he'd go like this. Yes, junk food junkie. Steven Tyler.
Another one, right? No matter how old rock stars get, we go, they're a rock star. And again, even if they are a grandparent, even if they are, it's that shift. So, yeah, look up. Alive and kicking. But Bruce passed away. Time is always fleeting in my mind within the past year, but it's so funny. And I know it may be funny that I'm using the word funny on grief and loss day, but there are so many times that one of Bruce's songs comes on the radio and I just start chuckling. Or when we're in rehearsal and I tell a joke, and someone in the room's like, oh, Bruce would I be.
Bruce would be throwing up a finger right now. And the grief and loss is shared through the acknowledgement of going, that's a moment that we are thinking about Bruce. And it's hilarious because Bruce was a spirit that it was so easy to go, Bruce moment. Bruce moment. So I'll be heading to the gig today. I'll be sitting down at the piano, and if ever I attempt to be funny, someone in the room will roll their eyes. Bruce wouldn't have. But as that person's rolling their eyes, they will honor Bruce by going, j seat.
I'll throw up the finger for Bruce. So who are you grieving? Who have you lost? And how can you remember them? By going, ah, this is how they did their. Did their deal. That's how we do the thing. What do they say? Impersonation is the greatest sign of respect. Yeah, it's true. Whenever we quote somebody, whenever we mimic somebody, whenever we remember somebody, it is us saying, ah, you are sticky forever on me, with me. No matter where I go, y'all, you are sticky with me always, wherever I go.
So even though this moment is now going to be done. We got many more to come. St. Croix hospice is going to be signing on this afternoon, and you'll see me like you do every single day. Junk food junkie says our memories of those who have passed away keeps them alive for a few moments when we need them. Yeah, right. It's like that, that little fire that comes back again and again and again and again. So if you hear any Huey Lewis in the news today, think of Bruce. Think of Bruce. Bruce saying hip to be square.
So if you want to go ahead and get a good giggle in today, turn on hip to be square by Huey Lewis in the news. Y'all, we'll talk to you later. And remember to wear your seat belt.
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