A Friday check-in that reflects on love, grief, and noticing surroundings as tethers to the world; the host offers perspective, invites viewers to name their environment, and frames small observations as ways to find connection.
Jules Bezel Bits Crew. How are we doing on this Friday? I hope you are doing great. And if you're not, okay, if you's not doing great, that's why we're here to help you wherever you are.
Friday is a day that is set up to remind us about the idea, the act, the energy of love. What world are you sitting in right now? Think about the cozy, the creative, the ability to sip rather than consume. What's the opposite of losing something? Finding something.
Cadre is one of your tethers. Like the cold air, like the smell of the chicken fries coming from the steamed burger place behind me. I will be back tomorrow, 8am on the weekends. I'll see you tomorrow.
Well, hey there, Cadre. How are we doing on this Friday? I hope you are doing great. I really, really do. And if you're not, okay, if you're not doing great, that's why we're here to help you wherever you are. If you're great, we can offer perspective and celebrate with you. If you're not great, we can offer perspective and support you and move with you and sit in the muck with you. Jules Bezel Bits Crew. Kelly, how are. Nice to see everybody coming in this morning. Wayne, nice to see you, my friend.
What a crew. What a crew. Well, hey, it is Friday, February 14, which is a day that is set up to remind us about the idea, the act, the energy of love. So, hey, I love y'all. Those of you who I don't know yet, that's what the world may call strangers. I like calling you someone I don't know yet. I love you. And those of you who I do know, I love you too. I'm sitting in the parking lot of a 24 hour White Castle, y'all. Where are you? What are you doing? What's your, what's your environment this morning?
Go ahead and throw into chat as you look around. What world are you sitting in right now? I'm sitting in a parking lot where people can find sustenance literally 24 hours a day that if they have a craving, they can come here. I'm sitting in the midst of a chilly morning, but with the anticipation that it's going to raise 20 degrees today. So I'm sitting in that space. Where are you? And I asked the question for a reason. You know, on Fridays, so often we talk about the idea of, of grief and loss and losing things that are near and dear to us or things that we count on and the journey of being on the other side of having those things.
In the same way, I think whenever we lose something or someone, part of the grieving process is the world that we knew doesn't feel the same anymore, right? The. The world around us almost seems to be pulled away from what was nourishing in it. Kelly says that they are in St. Pete, Florida, hot and cloudy, driving kids to school. Hey, kids, hope you're having a good drive to school. I don't know if I'm on the Bluetooth. Joel says, Sitting in my head, lost in thoughts. Yeah, how often is that where we go?
You know, one of my buddies, St. Augustine hippo from a few thousand years ago, always talked about when the world would be volatile around them, that they would close in on themselves, and they wouldn't be able to see the outside. Right. They could only see the inside. And quite often, as Jules says, that they would be lost in that. And that's why this exercise of going, I have a white castle behind me. I have a Walgreens in front of me. I have a highway over there. I got a smoke shop and a really good Mexican restaurant over that way.
When I become aware of the world that I'm in, then all of a sudden I start seeing places and opportunities to maybe find some perspectives, some joy, or even simply a tether to the world in which I'm in. Grief and loss are signs of the opposite of those things. Maybe the opposite of grief is having. Having the thing that we love versus not having the thing that we love and loss. What's the opposite of losing something? Finding something. So often we think these things are not connected, but we can only lose what we've had.
We can only grieve what we love. Speakwander says I'm in my cozy, creatively messy apartment, sipping coffee. Yeah. Think about not only the where, but the energy of the where. The cozy, the creative, the ability to sip rather than consume. So what are your tethers today, everybody? I hope your tethers are things that when you forget that they're there, they sometimes remind you. Like the cold air, like the smell of the chicken fries coming from the steamed burger place behind me. No matter where you are and what's going on, Cadre is one of your tethers.
So come on back, y'all. I will be back tomorrow, 8am on the weekends. We'll be talking a little bit of enoughness on Saturday, a little bit of thin space on Sunday. Hello, beautiful onion. Oh. So many wonderful ideas that come out of this world. Oh, my. Miss Golly and Miss Shayna Paul shows on up, y'all. We have quite a motley crew here of people who care about you, and as we've spoken about today, tether you to the world that you're in and the opportunities that it possesses, y'all. I'll see you tomorrow.
Peace. I'm gonna go get me some steamed burgers. Steamed burgers. Numerous.
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