Harbor Pilots

Well, hello friends. It's your girl Speak wonder from the lakeshore of beautiful Erie, Pennsylvania. A little bit of rain today, not terribly warm, but that is spring in northwest Pennsylvania. It's so good to see you. I'm glad you're here and I'm glad to be here on Thursday, caregiver day as you pop in and come into my live. Or perhaps you're on replay and even on replay, if you would kindly in the comments, put something related to space and you'll see why I'm wearing a vest that's kind of blingy and it has little sparkly studs on it.

It reminds me of the galaxy. So you could type in something with the galaxy, maybe comet or star or planet or moon. But I'm going to let you do the thinking while I continue with my live today. Hey, Jules. Junk food junkie, dream big. Good morning. Good morning. And again, if you're just joining, I'm asking you to write in one or two words describing something about outer space, galaxy, planet. So what I'm getting at is I have some wonderful things to share that are collections of words that have gone into the Cadre Galaxy and I've preserved them in my journals and there are so many that this might be part one.

And part two is next week. As a radio broadcaster myself, way back in, I'm going to say the 80s and 90s when I was doing radio in Denver, Colorado, I remember asking a colleague, it could have been my general manager. I did ask somebody, where do our words go when we lodge them into the air, when we do the weather, the traffic report, when we play a song, does it just vanish? And I think I got a cryptic answer, maybe even a humorous one. You know, they just go out in the airwaves, which is somewhat true.

So I googled it and I wanted to read this part to you. Radio broadcasts go into space as radio waves, but they only get this mind blowing. They've only covered a small portion of the Milky Way. Ever since we've been lodging words into the air via radio waves, they've only taken up a small part of space. Amazing. That means the universe can hold more words, more music, more truth, more encouragement. And I think my coffee's done. Oh, now I got a voice. So despite over a century of broadcasting signals, human made radio waves have barely scratched the surface of the galaxy.

These waves are broadcast by land based radio stations or satellites and the Earth orbit. Now, I'm not a scientist and I don't usually do a deep dive like this, but I'm fascinated by broadcast radio waves and the fact that we lodged them out. I mean, how many radio stations? Or, I don't know, think of Pandora. Anything that's communicated via satellite into your house, your car, your office. It's. It's not dissolving or diminishing. It's finding a place in the galaxy, in the Milky Way, and there's plenty of room for more every day.

That is just, to me, astonishing. And it also means that just like the galaxy can hold all those radio waves, your heart can hold the words that have gone out into the cadosphere. And my heart holds many words that have been spoken. And so I would like to draw out pieces of truth that have lodged into my heart and my awareness, similar to how a radio airwave lodges in the galaxy and in the Milky Way. Now, it doesn't particularly matter who said them, but if I have a name assigned, I'm going to mention it.

The emphasis today, Caregiver Day, is not so much on who said it, but what was said, why it's important. And these are all Cadre truths that are on different days of the Cadre lives. Here's one. You know Nick, take a walk with Nick. He said we are all metaphorical mayors of our hometowns. Yeah, love that. It was part of a poem that Nick wrote and read to us on the Cadre. As I gleaned some more nuggets of truth, I found this one from Betsy Hodges, Rules of Engagement. She was talking about seeing through time.

That's all I wrote, seeing through time. But I can go back and find that live. Let me see here. I have these little tabs to mark some of these truth bombs that have dropped into our awareness on the Cadre. Of course, my theme is harbor pilots. So I love seeing you in the harbor and I love all of us getting out of the sea, which is sometimes choppy and often smooth and calm, and making our way safely into port. And some of the ways we do that is by leaning into the words that are spoken by our Cadre offerings.

This One is from Dr. Charisse, and she mentioned seven ways to challenge your inner critic. I'll just mention a few of them for time's sake. Number one, disengage from unrealistic self judgment. How often do we pose harsh judgment on ourselves and it's not even realistic? And she says, stop setting unattainably high standards for yourself. You're enough today. You've done enough. You're enough. And another one she mentioned in that Cadre was repeatedly, forgive Yourself for where you've made mistakes.

So much truth. Thank you, Dr. Charryse. And then we have. I don't even have dates assigned to these. These are Cadre nuggets. Over the years. Okay. Like over the last two years that I've been a contributor, Kristen Grimes did a talk on intuitive eating. We see Kristen on Saturdays, and she talked about the heartfelt response, the pivot, and the full stop. All of this was related to checking your emotional capacity as regards to eating. Alrighty. And then I wrote this one from. It's probably jc. This sounds like a jcism.

If someone's breathing, they need encouragement. So encourage. If someone's breathing, they need encouragement, encourage. This is my Cadre notebook. Yeah, this one is. I don't know why I did that page. Let me keep going. Okay. Here's the jc, as in, it's the follower who blazes new trails and therefore leads the leader. I love how he turns a standard upside down, re examines it, jiggles it up, puts a few bubbles in it and makes us think differently. It's the follower who blazes new trails and therefore leads the leader.

And I could give that an amen. Bold followership. Followership, I think, is the name of some of his talks. Dr. Charisse, again. She talks about collecting evidence from your life to correct negative thinking. Isn't that a great idea when you're having a down day? Have collections of evidence that yours is a good life and refer to those. Look laterally. Find and savor moments of joy. And then she says, learn to accept and give yourself compliments. Say thank you and let it land. Is it hard for you to receive compliments?

Is it hard to simply say thank you? Is it even more difficult to just let it land? Dr. Charisse also talked about pra. Practicing stillness in our in order to protect our energy. Galaxies of truth dropped into the Cadre. I love it. Orion. Orion the hunter and Orion's belt. Thank you, junk food junkie. If someone is breathing, they need encouragement. Thank you for that echo, Rachel. Expansive curiosity. These are lovely words. As connected to the galaxy, the non existent planet. Now Pluto. Yeah.

Massive. So descriptive words for the galaxy is what I'm asking you to drop in today's live and today's replay. Enoughness. Enoughness is a turbo booster to growth. Turbo booster to growth. The physicality of enoughness. And that's from one of JC's. You'll see a lot of his in my recollections because we get to see his face on the Cadre every morning. Puyab. She Said silence and rest will bring clarity and wisdom. It is so important to hear those words and to know that they're lodging into the galaxy of your own heart for safekeeping.

Somebody I don't know who to assign this one to. Failure is fertilizer for success. Yeah, speak, wonder. Don't forget there's lots of Tuesday's food for thought that I post on the Cotter sphere. You sure do. I've been going in there and pushing the like button. And my friends, I encourage you to go into this the conversation stream and see what people are providing there. Appreciate that failure is fertilizer for success. I wrote down something here from Shannon Paul who says leave space for yourself to decide on what wins you're going to focus on.

So it's almost like leaving white space in your frame of reference. That would be my corgi. She's very opinionated about noises outdoors. And then she says, and I love that she went on to say that Shannon said leave space for yourself to decide on what wins you're going to focus on. And they don't have to be giant wins. They can be little points of light in your day. And she reminds us that we can still feel joy in those so called small moments. Somebody said, change your hat. H A T Habits, associations and thoughts.

Very good formula for life. Jean Nichell's leading with authenticity. She talks about journaling and paper and that's my language. Then she talks about self doubt as well. When you hit that wall of self doubt, move through it. Ask someone who knows you to remind you how you got through it before. Find a trusted safe friend who can remind you how you got through this before. Nick Hansen. Take a walk with Nick. He talked about this was back in July of last summer. He says I'm a constant creation of who I am and so are you.

And he talked about cosmic whimsy, which really comes into play here as we talk about the cosmos and the Milky Way where radio waves go to rest after the word is spoken and how the chondrosphere lodges in the galaxy of our hearts as well. Yeah, look at all these. Dr. Charisse. Knowledge is not power without application. Wow. I don't know of another way to say it except to break it down and just say you can know the stuff, but if you don't apply it, the stuff you know isn't applicable. It doesn't have help you.

So in her crisp succinct words, knowledge is not power without application. We have Dr. Leslie, Dr. D. I like to put little coffee emojis in her lives because she's usually sipping coffee. Situational awareness. And I found out that day that she's all of 4 foot 11. I'm taller than Dr. D. Imagine that junk food junkie. One that sticks with me. Luke said each morning, challenge yourself to accomplish three things, small or big, to complete. I remember that live. I went back and listened junk food to the replay.

Always lots of content. Now she wants to play with her toys. Of course. Situational awareness with Dr. D. Be mindful of what you see. Body language around you, for instance. Be mindful of what you hear. There are groans and sighs that come from people, but also there's non audible stuff coming from the ones you love. Silence. Silence. And then also in that live, she said to speak up, especially if you feel fear. Go ahead and use your voice. Trust your instincts. And we have this one. How are we doing?

We're doing okay for time. The Caregiving Ballet. This is oh so poetic with JC he talks about. And this was on a caregiver day, Thursday. It was last October. He was sitting in his mom's minivan and he says, the caregiving Ballet. The caregiving free movement dance party. Always changing, always shifting, always adapting. I'll be experiencing that today, friends, as I go to mom's care home and celebrate her 94th birthday today with her. I have a cupcake tree in the freezer. Maybe I'll post a picture of it before it's consumed.

The only reason it's in the freezer, just a little life hack, is the frosting is less likely to start melting immediately if you serve it straight out of the freezer and then let it come to room temperature. And then. Anyway. But I digress. Mom's 94th birthday and I'll be doing the caregiver ballet. I'll see if she remembers she has some cognitive slippage. Not. Not terrible, but some dementia has come into play. And we'll have some of her friends. One of my friends is. Is riding over with me to the home and we're gonna have balloons, confetti, and beautiful sparkly plates and napkins for a party.

Happy birthday, June. I'm gonna pass that along. Thank you, Jules. June. Thank you for remembering her name. She goes by Junebug. And for those who are old enough to remember, and I'm not old enough to even remember, there was an actress called Gina Lollobrigida. And mom June often likes to claim that as her name just for fun. Oh, thank you, junk food. Happy birthday to her from all of us at Cadre Pass along the warm greetings to finalize today's spatial dive into the Cadre and how words lodge into our heart and stay there.

I've written a haiku. Remember that? 17 syllables. 5, then 7, then 5. Celestial vaulting words bounce into our hearts. Galaxies to fill. I have to reread that because I forgot the word vast. Celestial vaulting. No. Words bounce into our vast hearts. Galaxies to fill. Just think, my friends, our hearts are galaxies and they're stretching to receive light and truth and encouragement and wellness. And that is the centerpiece of Cadre. And like the radio waves that bounce and eventually land in the Milky Way and make room for more truth, we can hold on to the broadcast.

It doesn't get lost. It lands and holds space for more sparks of light every day. You're the best. Thank you for joining and I'll see you again in the Cadmosphere as Speak Wonder is a harbor pilot, as a contributor and also as a recipient of so much truth that's bouncing around the beautiful galactic Cadmere. Go and speak truth and receive truth and I'll see you in the harbor.