Cadre Today and The Outward Facing Clique

Good morning, Cadre. How are you? I hope you are great and I'm okay being a broken record every time I say that. I really do hope that you are doing well. But even if you're not, even if this is a stressful week, a challenging week, a week because maybe the schedule is a little bit different, maybe you're finding yourself a little bit off. Shelley, Michelle, Speak, Wonder, Jules. Hey. Hey, Bezobits. Wow. Crew is showing up today. How are y'all doing? How's your week looking? Who are you welcoming into your week this week that maybe isn't regularly?

Diane, nice to see you. Who else is joining your week that maybe isn't part of your every week? And I know for a lot of people it's a holiday week, so maybe your welcoming family or friends, maybe you're doing some community work and you're going to be running into people you don't know yet. Oh, it is early in Colorado. Speak, Wonder. And I'm in. I have officially got my parents moved to Florida. I fly back to Minnesota later on today. But if you hear the water in the background, that's the pool.

I'm not one to go in the pool, but I love listening to it. Well, hey, this is Cadre today, and if you've tuned in before, you probably noticed that everything is always changing, but everything always remains the same. Anila, nice to see you, my friend. Everything's always changing and yet everything always stays the same. Dr. Teresa, nice to see you. Is that, does that resonate with anybody that everything's always changing and it seems like everything always stays the same. Everything has a parallel.

Everything has a. Well, this is like the time that or, well, it comes back to I need to show up in this consistent way or I need to do these simple. Not simple meaning easy, but simple meaning few moving part things that allow me to move forward. Well, Tuesday is my favorite day of the week in terms of how we talk about kind of different thematics in the live streams. Tuesdays we talk about building community. Now, again, always the one who's going to break those terms down and dilute them a little bit.

What do we mean when we say building community? I like to think that that is anytime we're doing anything with any other person. So that may be one on one community, that may be one on many community, that may be many on many community or any other way that you see people knitting together, coming together, seeing one another. And that's kind of something that I really love. And even if I don't always Love it. That I feel very called to do. C. like you. You know, everybody. And I go, no, but I. But I would really like to.

Or they go, wow, like, how do you. How do you. I was at auditions for Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus at Sage's Theatre Company in Hopkins, Minnesota, coming up in January, and I'm working with a new director. I'm the music director. I'm working with a new director, and he hasn't been at this theater company for quite some time, about 15 years. So he doesn't know any of the young people walking in anymore. And every single kid who walked in. I didn't realize this till after, you know, a day or two later, a kid would walk in.

I'd be like, hey, how's it going? And the director would be like, oh, so apparently, kid, you. You already know some people in the room. What he was saying was, oh, by the way, that JC is greeting this young person. JC and this young person obviously already know each other. And then I sent. I sent the director a message. I'm like, hey, you made me aware of a spiritual gift that I have, and that is greeting people as if I already know them. I really like that I have that. Because there's something really special about being greeted in a way that makes you feel as if you are already known.

So my invitation for you this week is that run into someone and make them feel known, make them be seen. Give them the opportunity to be a part of rather than to be on the outside of. Because if we did more of that, how liberating or disarming or any other really good thing could present. So you will see me every day of the week, whether it's a holiday or whether it's a weekend or whenever. But I'm more excited about all the other people you get to see maybe once or twice a week, or those people who pop up in the community feed or in a.

In a chat like this, like all y'all are doing right now, be seen and invite others to be seen as well, y'all. Dr. Leslie is coming up top of the midday central standard time, noon. So for all y'all out in Colorado, 11am and if you're out on the east coast like I am right now, 1pm but y'all have a good one. I see you. I appreciate you. I need you. Talk to you later. Bye.