A host marks Mental Health Wednesday with reflections on wellbeing, shares memories of a first Neil Diamond concert, and describes the musical A Beautiful Noise staged as a therapy session while singing snippets of songs.
Wednesday is Mental Health Wednesday. In the Cadre sphere, we talk the big bucket of mental health. If there's a specific topic that or a specific need or resource you're looking for, dive in to the search feature.
A Beautiful Noise is a musical that turns Neil Diamond's songs into a therapy scene. The show is a reminder of the power of seeing how we get to where we are and the pathways to getting somewhere else.
Here's the rest of Shiloh. Neil diamond coming at you. Surround yourself with a beautiful noise. One of the best lineups in the week, if you ask me. I'll see you tomorrow.
Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you? How are you this morning? I hope you are great. What do we got? Wednesday. Wednesday. In the Cadre sphere, we talk the big bucket of mental health, of being well, of being in a space where you go, I feel good. In the livestream world, you have a chance to hear people muse, right? You hear people kind of talk through this stuff a little bit. But know that if live streams aren't what's floating your boat at any given time, if there's a specific topic that or a specific need or resource you're looking for, dive in to the search feature.
Look for what you're looking for because, y'all, it is here. And if it's not yet, it will be soon. I really love getting to spend time with you. No matter how you're doing. If you're great, that's awesome. If you're not great, that's okay too. Jules. Double sun. I love it. I don't know if it's snowing up where you are, but we're getting snow down in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, so. Hey, I want to tell you a story about a show I saw a couple of years ago. Well, actually, I tell you a story about the first concert I ever saw when I was five.
And then a show that I saw a couple years ago. But first, a little song. Young child with dreams Dreaming, dream every dream on your own when children play seems like you end up alone Papa says he'd love to be with you if he had the time so you turn to the only friend you can find there in your mind Shiloh when I was young I used to call your name when no one else would come Shiloh, you always came and we'd play. Does anybody know that song? It's a deeper track by relatively popular musician hey, Speak Wonder.
Hi, Bezovitz. Nice to see y'all. I'll sing the second and third verse in a little bit, but that song is by no other than Neil Diamond. Neil Diamond. You don't bring me flowers anymore. Sweet Caroline America. That person, Daydream believer, wrote lots of songs for lots of people. So when I was five, Neil diamond was the first concert I ever went to. It was at the Metrodome, which use the big stadium that isn't in the Twin Cities anymore, but it's where the twins and the Vikings used to play. Well, a couple years ago, they turned all of Neil's music into a musical.
Very popular thing that's been happening the last decade or two on Broadway and the Musical is called A Beautiful Noise. And normally these musicals are pretty, pretty enjoyable when they take an artist's songs and they turn them into a show because you get to listen to an artist that you may enjoy their music being presented in a different way. Well, here's how A Beautiful Noise, the Neil diamond musical goes. The stage is set in a therapy office, and you have the therapist sitting in a chair, and you have this old man sitting in the other chair, and neither of them are talking.
The therapist is attempting to do therapy pish type of things to get the conversation going. And Neil doesn't. Doesn't want any of it. And all of a sudden the therapist was like, hey, I was at Barnes and Noble the other day and I found this book called the Neil Diamond Anthology. And the book had every single song that Neil diamond had ever written in it on each page with the. With kind of the lyrics and all the information about it. And the therapist was like, hey, why don't you open the book to any song and talk about why you wrote that song?
And then the story comes to life. And you watch this, you know, this hyper imaginative, hyper emotional, loner type of. Type of kid growing up in. In New York City, very masculine, very reserved, doesn't talk or feel about things. And this story comes to life because Neil now gets to have a space to talk. Whoa. A white guy who doesn't know how to share his feelings. And I say that with 1% joke and 99% like, yeah, guess what? We have an imbalance in how we train and equip different people with the abilities to be mentally well.
And this show is one of those great reminders to me about the power of seeing how we get to where we get to, but also the pathways to getting somewhere else. So in this song, Neil talks about his imaginary friend growing up whose name was Shiloh. And Neil says, hey, no one else was around. And dream every dream on your own. When children play, seems like you end up alone, right? Children who are imaginative and playful. Neil found that that left him without any friends. Um, the second verse goes on to say, hey, I found a.
A, a friend growing up. Um, but then she left me too. So I went back to the friend that I have in my head named Shiloh. Um, how often do we go, you know what? I don't need anybody. I'm going to live within this little space in my head. That's in the long run, that's never the answer. Notice how I stopped myself from using the ultimate words, the nevers, the always. But no, in the long run, we are not designed to be completely in isolation. We do not exist. Best go to seas. Nope. We do not exist.
Best without external resources or community. So here's a really great place to find that. I'll sing you the rest of the song as we head out into the rest of this day in the Cadre Sphere and beyond. But, y'all, whatever you need, whenever you need it, the Cadre Sphere is the place to find it. Here's the rest of Shiloh. Neil diamond coming at you. Young girl on fire Something said she understood I wanted to fly she made me feel like I could Held my hand out and I let her take me Blind as a child All I saw was the way that she made me smile she made me smile Shiloh, when I was young I used to call your name when no one else would come Shiloh, you always came and you'd stay Had a dream and it filled me with wonder she had other plans Gotta go and I know that you'll understand I understand Shiloh, when I was young I used to call your name when no one else would come Shiloh, you always came Come today when you find yourself going back into saying, All I need is what I have within the things I've created.
Check in. Those are really good times to go, huh? Am I retreating because I need a moment of fight and flight? Because the world has not done did me good? Take those moments. But if you live in that constant space where Neil diamond lived Neil Diamond's whole life, Neil diamond is still trucking in this world. But a Beautiful Noise, the name of that show, also the name of a really beautiful song. Surround yourself with a beautiful noise that static, that cacophony, saying, hey, there's stuff out here for you to nourish you, to empower you, to galvanize and fortify you as you move forward into this world, y'all.
I'll see you tomorrow. But by golly, get ready for a great day. A great lineup right here, featuring one of the best lineups in the week, if you ask me. I'll talk to you later.
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