The Thin Space

Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you on this Sunday morning? I hope you are doing swell. I like that word. Hope you're doing swell. I hope that whatever's going on is making your energy and your presence grow swell as opposed to kind of shrink and hide. It is a crisp, crisp Sunday morning. Where I am, you can probably see the. The crispy's on the window. Good morning, Shannon. How's everybody doing out there today? I hope the answer is great. If the answer isn't great, I will always remind you that that is a okay as well.

Jules. It is a okay if you're not doing great. Jules, I have to ask, what's the temp up there this morning? Jules is. Jules is. Is is always my perspective shifter because Jules sits on top of the world and I live just south of the top of the world. So if I think it's cold here, all I have to do is ask Jules what the temp is. And by golly, all of a sudden I'm in the tropics. So it is Sunday. And on Sunday we spend a lot of time as a species thinking about how we can care about ourselves. It's quite often one of those days of rest for people.

And in those moments, it's a great thing to have a thing like Cadre to go ahead and get some ideas on how you too can take care of yourself in maybe ways you haven't considered. Speak wonder who's not doing great. They say cold and flu, by golly, it's going around, but it doesn't make it easier when it ends up becoming your reality. So speak Wonder, we are sending you all the good vibes today on Self Care Sunday. I always talk about the idea of thin space. The space in between everything that has been and everything that will be.

With that, I want to ask you something. If this resonates with you. Have you ever been the person or heard another person go, oh my gosh, time is flying. Like, wow, Feels like this month has gone on for a year. Have you ever heard people talk about the malleability time? As if time sometimes goes fast and if other times time goes slow, are you that person? I think we all are to a certain extent. But especially if you live in a portion of the world where kind of the outside is often changing. So if the weather changes a lot, or if you're very north or very south to where you have drastic swings and how long days are versus how long nights are, I've gathered, I've sensed, I've observed that it's in those parts of the world where there are more people who talk about time getting faster or getting slower.

One of my favorite musicians, Harry Chapin, he's the Cats in the Cradle guy, he wrote a song a long, long time ago. He's singing to a person and he's saying, you know, when I'm doing my job or when I'm with strangers, or when I'm in commute, time can fly by, or time can slow down, or time, time moves fast whenever I'm in other places. But when I'm with you, time moves slowly. And I've always loved that song because there is something about when you find the right people or the right space for the right moment, it seems like time slows down.

And I like to talk about why. For a moment headline time never speeds up and time never slows down. Just in case you were wondering, you may be like, haha, JC but no, it's true. Time always moves at the exact same speed. So why do humans experience faster time and slower time? Here's why. When we're living in the past or when we're living in the future, we're not living in reality, right? No matter how much we plan out the future and feel like it's giving us calm and, and confidence, seven times out of 10 things change when we're living in the past.

We may find truth or hindsight or enlightenment, all of these things. But in reality, it's purely within our mind where we're finding that time moves differently when we look ahead and when we look back. But in the moment that we are in, time is an opportunity. There's the click of the clock. There's the space in between the click of the clock. And when we exist in that moment, we realize that there are moments to be in, rather than moments to dream about the future or moments to reflect on the past.

So if you ever feel like time is running away or if time is stuck and standing still, I invite you to ask yourself this question. Are you in the thin space right now? Are you in the present? Or are you somewhere that actually doesn't exist anymore? Or not yet? It's a really powerful tool. Speak, Wonder says. That's great, Jules. Out here we're still in the grip of ice and snow, fog and gray. Yeah. Speak, Wonder. We just got. We haven't gotten a lot of snow in Minnesota, but we did get some yesterday, and it is, by golly, the fluffiest snow I've seen in my life.

Most meteorologists were saying there wasn't going to be able to be any snow to fall because the air has been so dry. But the dry air just made the snow go. Shannon. That song gets me, too. It calls time. Time goes slowly. Harry Chapin and his brother sings it. And his brother's got this really sweet soprano y high, flutey voice. It's just a really easy song to listen to. Harry's voice. Harry's voice sounds like this, so you wouldn't want to hear him sing it. That's why I always brought his brothers.

His brothers were different. Different crayons in the box, y'all. I hope you have a really great day. I do. I know I say it a lot, but more and more, as the world continues to spin, I hope nothing less than for you to be able to find those moments where you are with what you have and honoring that and stretch that time out. What did we learn today? The way we stretch out time is we exist. And when that time is happening, y'all have a good one. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye. Oh, and our interview this week.

Gene Mitchells is coming back for an encore Wednesday morning, 7:30am and Gene is getting ready to run the Tokyo Marathon. So maybe that'll come up in conversation as well. I got to run Tokyo last year. And by golly, what a memory it was. Y'all have a good one. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye.