Kristen Grimes and Dr. Christina discuss Lady Gaga's new album and urge listening to the Speak Wonders livestream. They reflect on grief, loss and storytelling after seeing the stage adaptation of Life of Pi and its retold narratives.
Kristen Grimes: Lady Gaga released a new album today. Christina: Once we tell truth out loud, it becomes a story. The way that we tell our stories is important. Listen to Speak Wonders live stream from yesterday.
How are we doing, Cadre? I hope you are doing great if you're a Lady Gaga fan. Well, by golly, Lady Gaga released a new album today. So check it out. A little abracadabra to play us in. Hello, Kristen Grimes. We'll let the chorus play itself out. T North 66. I hope you're having a good Friday here, bezo bits. Oh, we just have to play the chorus. We just need to. It's fun. It's Gaga. One, two, three. And we'll fade out the Gaga. Yeah, so check out Mayhem, Gaga's new album. Kristen is obsessed with Gaga so much she typed obsessed with Gaga with a lower G and then had to again type it again with a capital G.
That's how much Kristin Grimes is obsessed with the Gaga. Dr. Christina hey there. How are you doing, my friend? As well. Speak Wonder. It is another day starting right now. Hey, if you didn't get a chance to listen to Speak Wonders live stream yesterday, it's amazing. It's, it's touching, it's, it's, it's important. Listen to Speak Wonders livestream from yesterday. But hey, happy Friday everybody. I hope you're doing great. And if you're not doing great, please remember that that's okay too. You are capable of maybe even more in your current state than you are when you are great.
When we're feeling the things, when we're going through the stuff, this body that we have, this spirit that we have, this intellect that we have goes into a different state. We are on our own sides. So in times of trouble and strife, it's amazing what we can do. You know, on Fridays we often talk about grief and loss and that side of, of this journey we get to live. And last night I saw a play that got its start in West End in London and then bumped over to Broadway in 2023. But it's stage version of the book that was turned into a musical called Life of PI.
Life of PI is the story of a 17 year old boy who with his family had to move from India to, to Canada and they ran a zoo and they had to move their zoo to Canada. Well, the ship that they were on sank and. And most, most life on that ship died. And the story is PI, who's the main character's name, his journey of survival for 300 days in the ocean before he was found as the only survivor. And it's this, this really real story of struggle and strife and survival and relationship and loss and, and love and all of this stuff.
But it's Interesting. PI tells the story as animals from the zoo join him on the. The lifeboat that he's on. So there's the. There's the orangutan, and then there's the hyena, and then there is the. The tiger. And how he journeys with these animals and the people listening to him tell a story. It's like, that story is not true. Tell us the true story. So now all of a sudden, he retells the story, but rather than them being animals, he. He implants people from the ship, including his mother and a chef and another person.
He tells the exact same story and the exact same things that happened, but rather than it being to animals or through animals, it's through these humans. And then all of a sudden, the people listening go, okay, now that's. That's the true story, you know? And then PI at the end goes, as they're leaving, it's like, so what was the better story? The one with the animals or the one or the one without? And they say, the one with animals. And then that's how the show ends. The way that we tell our stories is important.
You know, PI has a line, and I'm not quoting it directly, that, you know, once. Once we tell truth out loud, it becomes a story. And. And I love that. You know, my. My friend Kelly Grosclogs always says, you know, grief is. Is the evidence of love. Kelly says grief lasts a lifetime, but love lasts forever. And I think the way that we share these stories of. Of our loss, of our strife, of our life, the good, the bad, the here, the there. The way that we tell these stories is important, and I encourage you to tell your stories in the way that you see the stories not only resembling the truth, but also resembling your placement in this life that you're living, because that's what makes, you know, we only live our life through our eyes, through our heart, through our experience, through our placement, through our privilege, through our inadequacies, through the way that we are treated good, the ways that we are treated bad.
So if we ever want people to understand us, we need to go ahead and live in that way. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. Thank you. Speak. Wonder. So wherever you are, whatever's going on, whatever you are holding on to, whatever you have lost, tell your stories. Tell your stories in the way that makes sense to you. And all of a sudden, you invite other people into your sphere, into your heart, into your experience. Tell your stories. You'll see me every single day, but you'll see Kristen Grimes tomorrow right here on the Cadre Sphere.
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