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Hey there. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing on this Wednesday? It's Wednesday today, y' all. How we doing? I hope you're doing good. I really, really do. But as my old sign in message was, hey, hope you're doing good, but if you're not, that's okay too. I want to remind you that even though I hope that you're doing good, if you're not, that's okay too. There are things you can do to help remind you that a, you're on your side, Alana, and number two, that you have some influence on your not on what's going on around you, but on your state.

Beezobit's, nice to see you. Speak Wonder. Good morning. A lot of throwing in the double exclamation point. Yee haw. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. Now, I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. There's been quite a few messages flying around in a lot of mediums from Cadre to you recently. You probably got and if you didn't, go ahead and check your, your junk file.

Cadre's monthly newsletter, which has a wonderful announcement, a couple wonderful announcements. First of all, you get to meet all the people who are helping advise Cadre's direction and mission and fulfillment on that mission. So check out those people. It's a wonderful crew that, that, that, that I get to spend some time with. The second thing that you'll see in that email is that this month we're focusing a lot on the idea of balance. So you're gonna see pre recorded content, live streams, community feed messages.

You can see Luke talking about that community feed right now or you can just type in Luke and you'll go ahead and find it there. This idea of balance is going to be interspersed throughout the month and then everything else stays the same but nothing really ever does, right? So whenever you need a little bit of Cadre love, open up your app, say hey, we're here for you. On Wednesdays in Live Stream world, we often talk. You see a lot of people who have mental health professions or vocations. Many also always got me talking from my perspective on that big kind of idea for the day.

So you look at that big bucket of mental health today, I want you to think about do you always love when all of a sudden there's like a something in your Mouth which can never find. It's like, is it a dog hair? Is it a piece of lettuce? What is that? I just got it. Don't know what it is, but I got it. We keep it real here at Cadre, but I want to throw out the idea for a moment on the impact of creativity on mental health, on aging, on our lives. You know, you've maybe heard me speak before, that I spend a certain chunk of my life with a group of people called Alive and Kickin.

Alive and Kicking is Minnesota's premier senior rock ensemble. They use rock music to knock down barriers of what it means to age. You know, if you see Mick Jagger walking down the street, you go, dude, there's Mick Jagger. If you see your grandparent walking down the street, you go, oh, there's my grandparent. Why do we never see our grandparents? I'm not gonna change that. Why do we often see our grandparents as retired people or old people or our grandparents, rather than people who have ideas and passions and projects and missions in their life?

Culturally, in the west, we often look at that. Here's the age where you stop doing the things you do, and now you just kick back all of a sudden. When we look at these types of activities and elements that we love until we retire, until we get to a certain age, and we may think we're supposed to stop doing those things, we end up losing a really big element in our mental health support system, and that is passion and positive stress and creativity. Here's the thing I want you to think about today.

Speak wonder. Some grandparents are rock stars. Other grandparents are are writers. Other grandparents are gardeners. Other grandparents are activists. Other grandparents are parents. Other grandparents retire and stop doing the things they used to do. But literally no rock star, meaning not like you, rock star, but no rockstar, meaning I'm literally going to stand on stage in leather pants and sing some Janis Joplin. Those are the rock stars I'm talking about today. So what does being creative do for our mental health?

What does being creative do for our aging process? It kind of ties into how I speak about enoughness, right? If we look at how we. How we operate in most elements of our life, there are right ways and wrong ways in the creative process. There are many ways, and we get to tell the story on how we do those things. Yes, you are speak Wonder and yes, you are speak wonder to the yes, you are grandparent, and yes, you are amazing. And the cool thing is, everybody else is amazing too. And we are a very good species on Telling some people they are more amazing than other people.

So the creative process invites us into a space that has stress, has anxiety for people who like to do things right. The creative process invites us to go, let's throw that in the air and see what exists when we do things differently, when we do things wrong, when we do things loud or soft or right or left or up or down. And I'll tell you, this week, I'm in the thick of it. We have our big show, we have four big sold out performances. The end of this week when rehearsals, 12, 13, 14 hours a day up till then.

The other thing I'll say about the creative process is that you don't have to go, I'm in it, I'm in it. I'm in it 14 hours a day. I tell you, we have some individuals who 14 hour days are not healthy for them, which is why we don't have them do 14 hour days. We have them do 2 hour days or 3 hour days or we have them go, nope, you know what, stay home today because you're not feeling great. Creativity invites us to break down the things that we think are rules and to ask the questions, what actually matters here?

So today I invite you to find something in your day that has some creative leaning to it and to ask yourself, huh, how can this thing make me see the world through brand new eyes today? Is it the way that you cut your grass? You'll laugh at me. Maybe my backyard, I literally have these big long chunks of grass and then the dogs can run around them. So my backyard does not look like a well catered yard. It looks like someone went at it with a, you know, with a hedge clipper and a blindfold. But it's been kind of fun the last couple of weeks to go, gosh, how do the dogs love running around this?

And where do they go if there's grass here and not here? So my backyard doesn't look like the American front yard, but it looks like something else. It's almost as if you're looking at it with brand new eyes. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, I hope you're doing well and I hope you come back tomorrow morning to hang out with me. Once again. 7:30 right here at Cadre. Today T North throws another great reminder. This coming Sunday morning, there's a wonderful gathering if you are located in Minneapolis for a little bit of sound bath, a little bit of connectivity in person, in face, a little bit of coffee over St.

Anthony, Maine. So actually in downtown Minneapolis. But you can find information on that as well in the newsletter, which I referenced before. Have a good one. We'll talk to you later. When you're looking at the world with brand new eyes.