The Thin Space

Hey there Cadre. Happy, happy Sunday morning. And if it's not happy Sunday morning, that is a okay as well. Even if it doesn't feel like it. How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? Well, I hope you are great. I think you all just got the notification saying, hey, ThinSpace is going live in the Cadre sphere. So now, yep, it's nice to see you all shuffling on in Anila first in the room. Good, good Sunday morning, my friend. As per usual, I am in a big empty parking lot on this Sunday morning taking a pause in my commute to work, to say hello and to hold space for you for a little bit right here.

Sundays is our self care day, right? And I think culturally, especially in the west, we often. Hey Becky. Hey Jules. On Sundays, we often, as a macro culture, really look at Sundays as you know, the weekend has begun. The weekend, at least on a Sunday morning, is far away from ending. It's not all the way until tomorrow that the week will begin. So Sunday often seems to have the most softness or pliability to to do something for yourself. And I shied away from saying do something good for yourself because a lot of times self care doesn't feel good.

It feels hard, it feels unsatisfying. Speak Wonder, how are you, my friend? Hey, a quick shout out tomorrow morning, 7:30am Central Standard Time, 8:30am Eastern Standard Time. Speak Wonder is going to be my guest on Cop Cadre today interviews. So right here you'll see me. Right here you'll see Speak Wonder right there and we'll have a great conversation. Around the world that Speak Wonder creates in their livestream harbor pilots, right, A wonderful array of analogies that uses the open sea or the open lake to go ahead and settle on in.

So I'm driving this morning up to my job and you know, it's kind of the end of the year. No, it's absolutely the end of the year. And this year has felt different. You know, someone messaged me earlier saying, hey, how you doing? I'm like, I'm navigating the world fine. I just don't know if the world I'm navigating is one that I, that I understand or that I feel in versus maybe above. You know, I kind of feel like now I'm a guest at the party of the world rather than, you know, someone who lives there.

And, you know, so all of a sudden I look around and I, you know, put on an album that should make me feel like it's this time of year. You know, I stop and I get a snack that should make me feel like it's kind of this time of year. And I still feel like what I said, that I'm kind of struggling to pinpoint. Even though I feel the changes that have happened, I struggle to pinpoint. It's like, here's what's different, here's what's different, here's why. Here's why. Da da da da. And this exercise of nuzzling into the thin space is one that, although sometimes unsatisfying, can help you move into a space of being where you are with what you have and honoring that.

You know, I say things like that and people go, it's like, oh, rose colored glens or rose colored lens guy. And I go, no, like being where you are with what you have and honoring it quite often leaves you with not a lot of things to honor or things that aren't nourishing while you're honoring them. But there's one moment of time that we have power, that we have control, that we have influence that we can be nourished by, and that's right now. So that journey into the thin space, that moment of going, yeah, you know, things may have been different back then.

You know, we may have hope or resolution or desire or plans or vision boards for what will come. Both of those things can provide us energy and, you know, kind of collateral in the bank for, for other times. Or they may even make us feel warm right now. But taking the moment to be where you are with what you have is the opportunity really go, so now what do I do with it? So my invitation for you this morning is the same as every Sunday morning. Think about all the times you think about everything that has been.

Think about all the time you spend thinking about what will be. Then lay those things aside for a moment and consider everything that is right now. I bought this coat sometime in the summer. It was on sale and it's like one of those like inside out coats. So I could wear it this way or I go this way. I kind of like it. And I kind of forgot that I bought it because it was like in the middle of summer. But it's kind of warm today. It's 20. 20 degrees. Feels like 12. Say you're from Minnesota without saying you're from Minnesota.

Yeah, I said 20 degrees is warm. But wearing this coat and having it be open feels kind of good. That's an example of being in the space that you are. It's like, wait, so your coat is the, is the golden ticket towards a brighter future. Yeah, for right now, it'll change, may change in the next 30 seconds. That's the reality of our species. That's reality of any species. The moment we are in is the moment that we are in. To all y'all, I hope you have a great, great, great, great Sunday. And even if you don't know that, that's okay, too.

You're still playing this game. Keep going. I will see you tomorrow morning, 7:30am Central Standard Time with the one and only Speak Wonder as we talk about Harbor Pilots. Y'all have a good.