Cadre Today: Thin Space

Well, hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? How are you? It is Sunday. And is tomorrow July? No, I think I'm flying to London night. So my brain is already six hours in the future. Today's the 29th. Okay. So happy still June, everybody. P. Roberts, 55, how are ya? I hope you're doing great. If you're not, remember that. That's okay, too. Hey, I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. I haven't spoken about that formula for a while. Sandra, Virginia, nice to see y' all.

Those 17 words are how we kick off Cadre today. Every day. I'm glad that I'm here, and I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. We think about that. That's a really great way to ensure that something good is bound to happen, right? Us being glad that we're getting to spend time together, us risking to think that what we know and what we've experienced has value, and us saying, you know what? And I care about you, Alana Banana. I care about connecting within this space to go ahead and be together and consider how we can be, well, in many different ways.

So thin space on Sundays, where we most often speak about self care, the practice, the idea. I always kick off the day with this idea of existing in the space in between, you know, how much of your time do you spend unpacking the past? How much of your time do you spend planning for the future? And how much of your time do you actually spend being where you are with what you got? Here's a really great example of a really great moment that the world kind of set up. And for those of you in the Twin Cities, this may resonate.

Who was in the Twin Cities last night and got an alert on their phone saying, hey, there's a tornado head down to the basement. We did about, I think it was 12:40 in the morning, 12:30 in the morning. Phone started buzzing. So the dogs and us went down to the basement and sat on the couch. And I'll tell you, dogs always kind of teach you the best of things, I think. So alarms are going off, and dogs obviously don't know what's going on, but they know that they hear the storms outside and. And so, you know, they want to stay close to us.

So we head down to the basement and they literally hop on up. Boom, boom, boom, right in between us to go, okay, this is where we're supposed to be right now, you know, didn't turn on the tv, didn't turn on the weather, you know, didn't look at the phone. Just. Just sat and that. Just act, you know. You know, I often talk about the words just and only being minimizers, but I think in this situation, all we had to do was sit, and we were in the midst of the thin space. The weather was happening. There was no other task to do.

And the animals are like, ooh, this is nice. This is nice to be where we are, to know that in this moment, we are cognizant of the things going on around us. We are safe. And then that moment ended, and we went back upstairs and we sleep on the top floor of a little bungalow. So we're very close to the weather. So even though the tornado had passed, there was still thunderstorm and rain, and you could see the dogs going, okay, is this. Do we need to go downstairs again? Are we going to need to go downstairs again?

I remember when we went downstairs. See what I just did? Are we going to have to go downstairs again? The future. I remember when we went downstairs, the past, and I was staying in that space of going, it's so nice to have everybody just being where they are again. Just. That's what the thin space looks and feels like. Now, you may be like, yeah, but I can't go ahead and stir up a tornado every single time. I want to nuzzle into the space. But know what you can do? Place yourself in the space that you're in.

On Sundays most often, I do my live stream from this parking lot, from this quick trip, and I look at the world changing in front of me. I'll show you what I see. I see this. So you can imagine. You know, some days I see snow. Some days I see grass growing. Some days I see leaves falling. These. These plants that are growing up right in front of my car right now, they weren't here a week or two ago. I get to go ahead and sit here and be in the thin space with you because simply, I'm aware of what is right now.

So I ask you, before you get on with your Sunday, take some time to look around and go, huh? This is what is. I'm in between two red cars. There's green grass in front of me. The wind is not blowing a lot because literally, even the grasses in front of me are staying still. I can hear that white semi truck driving by. These are ways to place yourself in the moment that you're in. And you may be like, why would I want to do that? Because that's the only moment that you have any power. Y' all be where you are with what you got today and make the most out of it.

I will see you. Not tomorrow morning at the same time, because I will be flying. I'll be over the ocean on my way to London. But sometime tomorrow, I will go ahead and get scheduled and we'll see you then. But until then, have a good one. Talk to you later. Bye.