Cadre Today: Thin Space

Good morning, Cadre. How are you? How are you? How are you? How are ya? I hope you're good. I do. It is Sunday, the last day of August. I do believe this is one of those really, really powerful days when it falls on a Sunday. For this particular live stream. I'll tell you why in a. In a moment. C. if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. Ballgame 22:30. Nice to see you, my friend. You know, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here, Maffy.

I know what I know and I care about you. So let's dive in. Like I said, this is a really powerful day for this live stream. On Sundays, I always bring up this idea of the thin space. The thin space is derived from the Franciscans, the monks, because they would try to place themselves, they still do, within the space in between. The space in between everything that has been and everything that will be. Between beginnings and ends, good and bad, day and night, light and dark. All these things. And today, today is Sunday, right?

So it's that the weekend is almost over, but the week hasn't begun. There's thin space there. It is the end of August, right? August is done, but September hasn't begun. The space in between. In Minnesota, this is the unofficial end of summer. Summer is gone, but fall has not begun. For some of you, you are sending off your young people to college or back to school, but it's Sunday, so it's like they're not sitting in the classroom, but they're also no longer within that blissful summery time where you get to see them more often than not.

This is like a major thin space moment. We are in between so many things right now. And yet, simply because we are in a space where you can access the thin space, we don't automatically go there, you know. It has been a week in my world. I'll take you back to eight days ago. Eight days ago I was on the Dan Patch stage at the Minnesota State Fair performing to a sold out audience with Live and kicking. It was a hoot. Seven days ago. One week ago today I said we'll see you later to my little Hamilton.

Five days ago I was sitting at Roxy's Cabaret playing drag bingo and it was absurd. And we were raising money for live and Kickin. It was a hoot but just weird. Three days ago, four days ago, when Annunciation School got shot up, two of my friends, Jesse and Molly, their little 8 year old Fletcher lost his life. Awful. And other things this week too, like lots of just big weird pull you from side to side things happen this week. So it's really easy to be thinking back. It's really easy to be thinking ahead.

So when I was driving this morning, as I'm always in my car on Sunday mornings for livestream, I don't remember getting to this parking lot, which is a little bit scary, but I was so in my head in the past and in the future that I wasn't where I was. Even though it's the end of summer, unofficially, even though it's the weekend, even though it's the end of a month, even though the air may be changing and all these things happening, there's four places we can be. We can be in the past, we can be in the future.

We can be where we are. Or the less spoken about 4th option, we can be nowhere. We can be in that floating space of going, where am I? What am I? How am I? And the beautiful thing is none of these spaces are innately good or bad. But the one that we have power in is now. The one that we have some control and influence over is now. Like right now. I can give you a high five. I can't give you a high five yesterday, I can't give you a high five tomorrow, even though I could put it in my planner, but who knows if that'll happen.

And I can't give you a high five if I'm wandering and floating without any great attachment to anything that's going on or has or will be going on. The reason why we often seek being in the thin space is because there is power. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on. Shannon, nice to see you, my friend. Remember that fourth space, because so often in the Cadre spear on Sundays during thinspace, we talk about, hey, we spend most of our time in the past and the future, but it's in the presence where we have power.

But there's that little creepy fourth space, and that is the nowhere space, y'. All. It is a prime environment right now. End of summer, end of the things that happen in summer, like maybe your kids are still home, or maybe they have gone the end of the weekend, the end of the month. There's lots of things lining you up to go be here now, but you still have to place yourself there. So no matter what's going on, no matter where you are, we hope that you are swell. But we remind you that even if you're not, that's okay too.

We'll see you tomorrow.