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Well, hey there. Good morning, Cadre. Happy, happy Wednesday, I believe. How are you doing? How are you doing? I hope you're doing great. You can see I have a cardboard box. In the era of cardboard boxes, coming to our front doors more and more often. But I built a new filing cabinet. I know I. Here, take it. Take a walk around my office, y' all, so you'll see T. North. That's the new. That's the new filing cabinet I built last night. Rick, nice to see you, my friend. Just taking a tour around my office since I had to explain the cardboard box back there that's just sitting up now, the cameras all wiggly, waggly.

This is. This is live television, y' all. This is how it goes. But one of the things I love about Cadre is that you get to see us in our real worlds doing our real stuff, because that's where we all are. Each of us are in our real world doing our real stuff. My name's JC if we've never shared time and space together before, I'm here seven days a week as the host of Cadre Today to be that friendly, familiar voice, as if you're walking in your home or walking into your favorite restaurant or that favorite little spot where you go out.

Here's where everybody knows me. And as we know you, we have a hope for you, and that is we hope you're doing great. But if you're not doing great, we want to ensure you that that's okay, too. On Wednesdays, we talk about the big bucket of mental health stuff. You may be like, oh, I thought Kaji was a mental health app. So why is Wednesday that specific day? Well, as you know, mental health is like a Venn diagram. Our mental health affects how we develop personally and professionally. It influences how we form relationships with one another.

Our mental health is impacted by those people that we care for and those people and things that we lose and grieve. Our mental health is impacted by how we take care of ourselves. But at the middle of that, is this all the intangibles of who we are? So look at the lineup today, because there is a parade of live streams. If you're a live stream fan, get ready. If you're not a live stream fan, go ahead and look at the communities that we have and go. These are the things that I really am interested in or that I really care about or I'm really being impacted by.

So you can cater and create your calibrated Cadre experience. Look at me alliterating. You might Wonder why can I alliterate so well? I'm a musical theater person. I've been a musical theater educator and director for a long time. And yesterday we lost. We lost a gentleman by the name of William Finn. Bill. Finn. Bill is a composer, and he passed away at the age of 73 yesterday. Bill is one of my favorite, favorite, favorite humans. And I want to share a song that. That. That Bill wrote. Carlette, Nice to see you, my friend.

You're just in time to hear a little ditty goes like this. I feel so much spring within me Blow, winds, blow Spring has just begun as. And something's taken wing within me what was dark so long had felt like winter finally there's sun and so I sing that I feel so much spring. And the song goes on and on about people singing about being on the other side of the dark or the other side of the hard. The main character in this show, which the show's called the New Brain, if you like listening to soundtracks, it's a beautiful, fun, rich, emotional soundtrack from the late 90s.

But it starred Malcolm Getz and Norm Lewis. Kristin Chenoweth. The cast was just lovely. But the main character gets rushed off to the emergency room with something that's wrong in his brain. And all of a sudden he goes, oh, my gosh. I have this thing in my brain. They don't know what's going on, and there's a good chance I'm gonna die. So then he's stuck with this fork in the road. And he goes, do I try to write the song that I've been trying to write my whole life, or do I spend time with the people who I care about in my life?

In other words, he's going, is my worth? Is my legacy the thing that I've done or the people that I've impacted? The story goes on that he gets kind of more confident and more broken down. And he realizes. And he's a very stubborn character. He realizes that there's power in both. He tries writing the song, and he says, no, go home. Don't stay with me tonight Partner in the hospital. I need to work on my song. He says to mother, mother, go. And then he tries to write the song, and the song again doesn't.

Doesn't work. It doesn't hit. It doesn't resonate. And all of a sudden, he finds out he's going to live. And he sings this song. I feel so much spring within me Blow, winds, blow Spring has just begun and something's taken wing within me what was dark so long had felt like winter finally there's sun. And so I sing that I feel so much spring. And I think what he's singing about is the expectations that he and we put on ourselves to have everything figured out, to do things in the right way often separate us from the thing we're trying to accomplish.

This is one of my favorite songs ever. Bill wrote, like, three or four of my favorite songs ever. And I think it's because Bill, as a human, was just this, like, brash, Speak the truth quickly, express quickly, feel quickly, fight quickly. I love people like that. I always say one of the recommendations I have for people in their life is to speak the truth quickly and to be critical because you're invested. And I try to do those things. So my invitation for you today, y' all, is to feel spring in you.

Not because all of a sudden all the bad stuff stopped, but because you go, you know what? I'm gonna throw my hands in the air and let life happen now. I'm gonna dance on it. I'm gonna dance through it. I'm gonna react to it. I'm gonna get ugly and messy and beautiful and rich and profound and irrational. Because y' all, that's what life is. So, hey, our next Cadre Today interview is going to be me and Luke doing a little Friday, 5pm happy hour interview on the idea of values. But in the meantime, if you have any questions, hopes, worries, fears, concerns, desires, check on in with me with anybody else in your Cadre sphere.

Cadre is a special group of people with a special intention. That's what Cadre means. You're a part of it. Y' all have a good one. We'll see you later.