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Hey there, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope you are doing really, really good. And if you're not, that's okay too. But my new introduction, if you haven't been here in the past week, to Cadre today, is this. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Imagine if we walked into every exchange with other people with that. With that liberating thought or grounding. Hey, Jen. How are you, my friend? Newfie lover Sue. It's been a while since I've seen you, my friend.

I hope you're doing great. But I'll say it again, I'm glad I'm here. Carrie. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. That's my charge every time I share space with you. But it's also my invitation when you share space with other people, to think about the exchange that way. We're glad that we're here. I know what I know, and that makes it enough, because I care about you. And if I can share a perspective and invite you to see yours. It's Wednesday. On Wednesdays, we so often talk about the idea of the big bucket of mental health, right?

And other days it's kind of the offshoots, the streams that come from that ocean. But one thing before I share my thought for the day. Have you checked out communities yet? We always have this Cadre sphere changing and growing and evolving. And a while back we rolled out the these things called communities. Think about if you are at a big, big party and then all of a sudden you get into a conversation with a couple people at a table in the corner. That's in essence what the communities are at Cadre, it's your chance to find the smaller conversation, the more isolated conversation, or the content on something that you're currently craving.

You can join communities or leave communities whenever you like, depending on what you're looking for and what's filling your cup on that day. So when you see the hashtag and then a kind of a title or a topic, join that community if it's interesting to you. And you can also join contributors communities. So you see Jen Varale here, you see Luke here, they both have communities that you can join. If you're like, oh, I really like Jen's content and voice. If you want to see more of it in your feed, click on Jen's community.

And all of a sudden you'll see a little bit more Jen okay, so today's message, public service announcement. Done. Here's what I got today. You see this little piece of rope? When I was growing up, my dad always had one of these in his pocket. I stole this one from his truck a couple years ago. It's a little piece of nylon yellow rope that. You see it like a Menards or Home Depot or Lowe's. And he's carried these things around in his pocket for as long as I've been alive. D. kind of messed with his.

With his mental state, messed with his skin, messed with all the. All the intangibles about humanity. And this is one of those things that he has done since then, when he would be hanging above missiles for 24 hours at a time, not sleeping, sleeping, not eating. This was one of the things that he would do to. To keep. To keep going, to, you know, feed the mind and feed the necessity to move. And he just dropped it. I'll be back. And I'm back. And it's interesting, right? When you're a young person watching your old people in life, by old people in your life, I mean the people who are older than you, right?

That's always changing and shifting. But when you're little and you look at the people who you go as like, wow, these are the old people. These are the people who seemingly have their stuff figured out, their stuff together. They do what they do. And you go, huh? They do that? Why do they do that? And you don't question if they have a clear answer. You assume that they do. My invitation today, you know, we always talk as I shared mental health is the big bucket on Wednesdays. But the assumption that there is an answer, the assumption that there is a clear pathway, that there is, I always say, like a binary.

It's like, oh, it's either this or this. It's not true for most things in this world. I think rather than seeking the answer or seeking the why, it's understanding that something is, you know, I can wrap a lot of things in this little piece of rope, right? I can go. It's like, oh, here's here's the why, or here's the what, or here's what it's accomplishing. A lot of times it's not that easy. I know that there's a lot of trauma wrapped up in this little piece of rope. I know that there's probably some good things that have come out of this rope and also probably some not good Things that have come out of this rope, figuratively, literally, right?

But I know that this is evidence of my dad attempting to figure stuff out, my dad attempting to go, here's the best thing. Here's something that I can say. I'm doing this for me. And that in itself has a lot of worth, you know, if we think that what we're seeking is the clarity and the answer, we're going to be underwhelmed. Quite often if what we seek is to be in a space of curiosity and courage and learning what there is to be learned and not knowing what there is to be not known and going, huh?

Yeah, There may not be a clarity here. There may not be an end to the conversation here. That's why I keep this around. What are those things that remind you that maybe what we're seeking isn't the clarity or the right answer or the finish line, but seeking the space where we can continue to go, huh? Yeah. I may never know what. What the answer is, but being on the journey is probably the best place to be. Y' all, we are glad that your journey has brought you into the Cadre sphere. And we are always here for you, with you, because of you.

I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. Have a great day, y' all. You got a great lineup of live streams coming your way, so tap in when it feels right, tap in when you're hungry, and come on back to find the community feed that you can share on, find the prerecorded content that you can sift through, and find that that's what I needed today or always engage within these wonderful opportunities to be in real conversation with one another. Y' all, thank you for joining today, and I will see you tomorrow.