The Thin Space

Hey there, Cadre. Happy Sunday morning from another parking lot somewhere in Minnesota. My name is JC and this is the kickoff to self care. Self care Sunday here in the Cadre sphere. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right here in the here and now. I hope you're good. But if you're not good, that's okay too. No matter how you're doing, no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, this is always a great place to be.

That's kind of the cool thing about Cadre. Every Sunday I'm in commute around the 08:00 hour when I jump into my live stream. So I always have to pull over and find a parking lot where I can do my live stream. Hey Amy. Nice to see you my friend. I hope you are well. Beezovits. Jules. As the seasons change, I always have to find a different parking lot because I'm in a different place, but also the world's in a different place. So I've been in that parking lot over there before, but the sun was literally smacking me in the face, so I had to come over to this parking lot and all of a sudden I have this, like, sidelight going on.

I talk about thin space on Sunday mornings. The space in between everything that has been and everything that will be. It's in that space that we can focus and rest and calibrate and do all the things we need to do to live the life that we have the opportunity to live. You know, at any moment, on any given day, we could say there's so much going on and it's so easy to get overwhelmed. We could say that at any moment, on any day in the history of the world. We could say that on any moment of any day in the history of the world.

So the importance of the thin space is always equitable. But I tell you, if you need proof of that, look at me attempting to find a place to do this live stream. It's like, oh, it's always at the same time. I'm always driving, so all I have to do is pull over. No, because the world is always changing. And if I'm 1 minute behind or 1 minute ahead or if there's a car in front of me or whatever, I'm always in a slightly different place. So I have to find a place where I can connect with the thoughts in my head and the people who are on the other side of this screen.

That's what the thin space is we are now in the heart of fall. A couple weeks ago, we were talking about the change of the seasons. The sun is shining in where I am in Minnesota. It is hot and summery again, but there's elements of our being that are going, ooh, I want to burrow in. I want to see. I saw 79 squirrels this morning, and guess what? They're all working so hard with, like, one part joy and one part anxiety to put into the ground their sustenance for the days to come. We always have to calibrate into the moment at hand if we want to be in the moment at hand, and if we want to be in the moment at hand.

Like, if we want to understand what the opportunity is here, that's what we have to do. That's so much the world would say, it's just that simple. I go, no, it's not simple. It's hard. It's super hard because humans aren't designed that way. The squirrels will work endlessly to put the nuts into the ground. They're designed that way. We aren't designed that way. We're intelligently designed. But we're pretty stupid. And I say that lovingly. Like, we aren't set up to automatically do the things that would be really, really naturally sustainable for us.

And that's not a critique. That's an observation. It's commentary. We have the opportunity to do a lot of different pathways, so it's not simple to come into the thin space, but it is worthwhile. So maybe all you have to do is go, huh? I'm gonna place myself in the moment that I am around the same time and go, oh, I'll tell you right now, it feels really good to have the sun shining on the side of my face, but in front of me, I see closed down JC Penney's. I remember 20 years ago when I used to direct theater in this city that this was.

This was like a hoppin place. I remember when that golden corral used to be an old country buffet. And I'm missing that chapter. Like, I'm looking back, and I'm also looking ahead to going, like, oh, my gosh, and I have to be at work in 23 minutes. Then I have so much coming up the rest of the day, and then I have so much coming up the week ahead. But right now, to be here with you, I don't want to be like, oh, my gosh, it's so good. It is good, but it also is. It is what is. It is what is true.

It is what is in this moment and to be here with that, that is where there is power. That, my friends, is the thin space. You want to know what else is happening in this moment? Our friend Gene Nichols literally just finished the Berlin marathon in Berlin, Germany. Yeah, literally, right before I signed on, I was like, gosh, I feel. I felt it. I felt it in my bones. Like, I need to go on instagram. And I said, threw it. And all of a sudden, Jean was, like, biting her Berlin mussel in front of the Brandenburg gate.

So you go, Gene. So I don't know if we're gonna see Gene on the cadres fear later on today, but, you know, you will see the splattering of contributors throughout the rest of the day. And, like, a really good rash, I'm gonna be keep coming on back every single day, y'all. m. central standard time, right here in the Cadre sphere. Until then, find yourself in the moment that you can, because what else are you going to do? Peace.