The Thin Space

Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you doing? I hope you are great. And if you're not, I think that is okay as well. May not feel okay like I'm telling you, hey, it's okay that you're not great. But what I am saying is that sometimes we go, if we don't feel great, we feel like we have to hide or we feel like we have to dissociate or run away from other people. Marisa, nice to see you, my friend. Oh my gosh, you just made my day. So, yeah, I do hope you're great. But if you're not, I hope you know that your worth hasn't been dimmed and your capacity to do really great things, Jules, has not changed one bit.

Speak wonder. I feel like I look like Mr. Rogers right now. Got on my sweater. I'm sitting in a rocking chair. Actually, normally my Sundays, I live stream from my car as I'm in commute on my way to work, a long commute to work, but it is currently about 38 below zero wind chill up in the far, far reaches of the burbs. So I didn't feel like it was the best idea to turn my car off to sit in my car to do my live stream. So I got all the way up to to work where I'm sitting in the nursery. How are you doing?

Yeah, I'll take off my shoes and flip them and say, won't you be my neighbor, Jules? I'm a Minnesotan, so it's always the first thing I'm curious about. What's the wind chill up north today, Jules? Well, hey, Sundays, we talk about thin space. That space in between everything that has been and everything that will be. And I always like providing different ways of arriving there, different ways to think about how most often we don't place ourselves consciously in the space in between everything that has been and everything that will be.

It's a fancy way of saying presence or maybe mindfulness or awareness or whatever, right? Here's something. So I have a lot going on and a lot of stress and anxiety about all of it. So, so often when I'm in this state, what do I do? I always look ahead at all the stuff that is going to go wrong and how there's too much and how I'm kind of in my last days before the world blows up. So I go into my calendar. You know, I used to be a paper calendar person, but over the past year, a lot of my work has encouraged me, slash forced me to go into having an online Calendar.

And you know, there's something really great about being able to go boop, boop, boop. And knowing that it's, it's on that online calendar now again, I have nine different online calendars that gladly that I've figured out how to kind of get all to live in one space most of the time. Sometimes I forget, but I've noticed the way that I look at my calendar tells me a lot about how I perceive and how I actualize the thin space. You know, to try to calm myself, I look ahead in my schedule. So like today, I guarantee you I'll look at my calendar 10 times at the week ahead and I'll look and I'll go, okay, here's a little bit of free space or, or here's gonna be one of the hard days.

And then on the other side, then I can go, huh? I always look ahead in my calendar. Sometimes I look at the current day and I go, okay, like today, after I finish work in the morning, I don't have a lot else going on, so I'll sit and I'll fester. Actually, I'll do some preparing for tomorrow. So again, now and future. You want to know what I never do? I realized this this morning. I never look back. I never look back at the past week or weeks and go, huh? Yeah, all of that happened. All of that happened and I'm still here.

And a lot of cool things happened back then. I like using, you know, so often we go, oh. We look at the past to learn. We look at the future to plan, and we exist in the present. I like to think of it this way. We look at the past to see that we can. To see that we have. We look at the future to go ahead and go, huh? We are going to again. But in this present moment, what are we doing? So that's my invitation for you today, right? Take a look at your last week's calendar. Whether it be on paper, whether it be online, wherever you keep your calendar, maybe it's hanging on the wall or on the fridge, look back, go, huh?

All of that happened. And maybe there was some muckiness, some non success, some non nourishment, but I bet there was something where you're like, wow, amidst all of this stuff, that was a really cool moment. And then look ahead and go, huh? There's going to be some cool moments here. I don't know where they are exactly, but I know they're going to show up and then look at right now and go. Knowing that the past, everything didn't burn down trusting that the future is probably going to be a space where not everything's going to burn down.

So why not be in the right now so you can nourish for whatever is to come with the fuel of what has been? Because yeah, if you're like me next week, there's a lot of within my own world, a lot of stuff. And also within the big world, it's a weird, scary, potentially life altering week. And guess what? We're probably going to figure out how to survive through it or how to navigate it or how to have a perspective that nourishes us in the moment that we're in. So whether it's 38 below, 24 below, whether you're sitting in sunny, warm, tropical Lake Erie or anywhere else on this planet, be where you are with what you have and honor it.

Y'all enjoy the rest of the day. I'll be back tomorrow morning. Peace.