A Wednesday livestream hosts a familiar, reflective check‑in about mental health, sharing gentle prompts, a piano interlude, and readings about light and reflection to invite resettling, reframing, and connecting with the Cadre community.
Every Wednesday morning I pop into a live stream and I say hey. On Wednesdays, most of the time we talk about the big bucket of mental health stuff. We often try to create well worn pathways. To remember that even if you've been here a million times, you've never done this day before.
Maria Chevre: Light is shared in two ways. From the candle and then from the mirror. Today I had nothing to share with you, but I could reflect. There's a song called the Secret of Happiness. Maybe that says something to you today.
Hey there Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope you are doing good. We'll let people walk on in for a little bit. Rather than playing some Spotify, I'll go ahead and play some piano. Still a few seconds before 30 past the hour. Amar, how are you doing my friend? We'll give it one more second. Chris Sportman Good morning. Good morning, Newfie lover Sue, it is officially 8:30 Central Standard Time. It's time for a little Cadre today. How are we doing my friends? Shannon, nice to see you. I'm glad that I'm here.
I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Amar. Shannon, Chris Fortman Newfie Lover. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. That's the spell, that's the formula, that's the engineering of how we work to help you feel better. Every day I bop on in to go ahead and be that consistent face. Whether this is your first time in the Cadre sphere, to say howdy, how you doing? Or whether you've been here a million times. Cafe Marisa, how are you my friend?
To remember that even if you've been here a million times, you've never done this day before. So you have the opportunity to go ahead and reprocess, to resettle, to reconfigure, to reframe, to re all the things. On Wednesdays, most of the time we talk about the big bucket of mental health stuff. We often try to create well worn pathways. So if you're walking through the Cadre sphere, you can see a little dirt path. That and that dirt path may be a certain community that you can join a community around an idea or a community that's fostered by one of the contributors.
In the Cadre sphere you may find a well worn path within the community feed where when you click into Cadre you go into scroll mode for a moment. As Anila would say, a little bit of hope scrolling rather than a little bit of doom scrolling. Or you may go on. Every Wednesday morning I pop into a live stream and I say hey. That's what you can do right now. You can literally say hey and I can say hey right back. Amar, I'm doing good, how are you doing? Shannon, I'm glad you're here too. Marisa. It is so glad to know that I am in your space as well.
Sometimes the things that we want to share are not things that come from our own mind or our own heart or our own voice, but from us, reflecting the things that we see or the things that we hear or the things that we can point to or touch or give. One of my favorite quotes, Edith Wharton says, oh, Maria Chevre, nice to see you. My friend Edith Wharton says, light is shared in two ways. From the candle and then from the mirror. Sometimes read the candle, sometimes we go, I have something to say. I have something to share.
I have something to give. And other times we can go, you see that? Hey, someone just told me that. Hey, I just heard that. This is a song that came on my mix this morning and I want to share it with you. It's not mine. It's not my message. I'm the mirror to this song. Let me be the mirror to this candle that I found today. It's a song by Paul Gordon, who's kind of a musical theater story song composer. It's a song called the Secret of Happiness and I like it. I've discovered secret of happiness is learning how to glide.
I've discovered the secret of happiness is just enjoy the ride don't let the journey be tainted by pride. And I've discovered the secret of happiness is not to mourn the past. I've discovered the secret of happiness is not to run too fast. You can still beat them by coming in last. And the secret, the secret of happiness is living in the time it takes to blink. I think is how we're meant to be living. I like throwing the curveball. We think that our pathway is to get faster, stronger, harder, deeper.
I love to say, well, what would you get if you did the opposite of all those things? I love coming in last. I love not trying to be better. I love quitting. I love giving up. I love following. I love on taking things that are really special off the high shelf and putting them into people's hands and letting them be get muddy and dirty and to use them. All those things may seem as counter cultural or counter progressive things, yet I have found more joy in those things than in what may be the cultural normative.
So today I had nothing to share with you, but I could reflect. Something was shared with me. There's that song, y' all. You can still beat him by coming in last. Maybe that says something to you today. Maybe it's challenging. Maybe it makes you frustrated or angry, or maybe it makes you go, it's exactly what I needed. Y' all check out the lineup today. It is a wonderful one per usual, but if the schedule doesn't work, today. Maybe when you're laying in bed tonight, you open up and you find a live stream to replay.
Or maybe right now before you log, off you go, I'm going to join this community around this idea or around this person that I've really connected with in the content that they share. All of a sudden that will reflect back to you later. Be the candle when you're the candle. Be the mirror when you're the mirror. Talk to you later by it.
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