Cadre Today and Family Ties

Well, hey there, Cadre. Good. Good morning to you. How are you? I hope you are great, I really do. And if you're not great, that is just fine as well. Being great is great. But what if the other moments are just as palpable, just as capable of being life changing? Beezobits. Nice to see you, my friend. How are you? What if every moment there was something there that you could do something with? Speak, wonder. Nice to see you. That's what we're kind of creating in the Cadre sphere, right? A space where you always meet the bar of acceptance, Jules, no matter how you're doing.

Good day, bad day. And you don't have to downplay the bad day. You can say, I'm not doing that. I'm not doing good. Here's the stress, here's the complexity, here's the muck. You know, I'm going to say that every single time I log on. And if we've never shared time and space together before, my name is jc thanks for letting me spend some time with you. It is a gift. You see my face every single morning right here to kick things off in the live stream world as a little reminder, right, of the things that bring us together.

But also as that welcome that every day you show up, you are different. What you need is different. What people need from you is different. I am currently sitting in my mother's minivan. I picked it up early, early this morning because. Okay, ready? We're going to my brother's house outside of Vegas. And by we, I mean me, all my siblings, and we're going to be down there for a handful of days. My parents live in Minnesota, where I live, so I went over to my parents to pick up their van so then I can park it at the airport.

So then when we get home on Sunday evening, they have a comfortable, recognizable vehicle to go. Huh? We're getting home and all the little things, right? I have to now go to a meeting for a few hours and then I'll meet my parents at the airport. And it's the whole rigamaral. It's the Caregiving ballet, but maybe even more so. It's the Caregiving Free Movement dance party. It's always changing, always shifting. I know that as the caregiver of my parents, as we get together with more family, that what my parents are going to need from moment to moment is only slightly planable.

So that's what I do. I slightly plan. This morning I found out that one of my siblings isn't coming to this reunion. Because they got stressed and anxious and now they don't feel safe coming and hanging out with everybody. Everybody slightly planning things and creating space for as Shannon Stauff, who you'll see later on today, who says it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. Again and again and again, now, again, saying it's okay doesn't make the reaction or the energy, the emotion not have value, but it says that we can exist with that and, and also say and the story is going to continue to write itself.

So right now I'm parked on the side of the road after picking up my parents minivan to head to a meeting and then to meet them at the airport and then to get ready to unpack their family trees with their offspring away from their home. We can only slightly plan the future and slightly planning bears a lot of fruit. But also giving yourself permission as and now I see Shannon just popped on in. Who will say it's okay. That it's okay is our reminder that life is happening to us. And if we choose to, life can also happen through us at the same time.

So send some good well wishes for me and family for four days together in, in one house. As my sister pointed out yesterday, this is the first time that everybody will be sleeping under the same roof since 1988. And there's an itinerary and I bet it'll be followed slightly and I bet there will be wonderful, wonderful fruit to pick from this experience throughout, afterwards through that slight planning that we've moved through. So your invitation today. Caregivers understand that what you are doing and what you're planning is good.

And also understand that when all of that shifts or blows up or somewhere in the middle of those two things, it's okay too. You are still present with the magic that you bring. And that is your love, your care, your discipline, your willingness, all of that. So signing off from the minivan, you will see my face tomorrow morning. But before that, Steph Irwin from Savannah, Shannon Stout from the Twin Cities, you'll see Speak Wonder coming from Lake Erie, Pennsylvania, and then Ms. Shannon Paul wrapping up the day with a little bit of comedy through the chaos.

The cool thing is if live stream isn't your thing today, or if livestream isn't your thing in a live version, check it out later or scroll through all of the options here for moments for you to go, huh? I am giving myself an opportunity to see that there are many ways to do this life. That's what we're offering you right here. That's what you are offering each other right here. We'll talk to you later. Have a good one.