Cadre Today: Bubbles

[music] Good morning, Nanny Mac. [music] One of my favorite songs. [music] [music] [music] [music] Kelsey, how's everybody doing? Good morning, Jules. Nikki! [music] Oh, Shiloh, speak wonder. [music] [music] And the name of it? Oh, that was Shiloh, a Neil Diamond song. But that was the version from the Neil Diamond musical, a beautiful noise that came out a couple of years ago. If you're in the Twin Cities, it's going to be here at the beginning of October , but it's touring around the United States.

So if you're in the States, check out a beautiful noise. Shiloh is this wonderful song about Neil's imaginary friend from when he was a kid. Good morning, cadre. How are we doing? I hope you're doing great. But if you're not doing great, please know that that is A-OK as well. You don't need someone on the other side of a screen to tell you that that it's OK to not be OK. But it is really nice sometimes to be reminded that if you're doing great, you have so much capacity. If you're not doing great, here's what I got for you.

You still have capacity. The world may say you need to have your stuff together for you to be impactful, but that just isn't true. Cadre is inviting you into a space where you can be safe, surely. But maybe you don't have the access or the agency or the autonomy to be safe. Maybe you need to be brave instead. This is a safe space. It's a brave space. It's whatever kind of space you need it to be. And it may be something different for the person sitting right next to you. So as you say, good morning to all of each other.

Consider the differences. Consider how you all fit right here. m. Central Standard Time. You got a little Harbor Pilots coming at you. Another wonderful live stream here, right here in the cadre sphere. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you are here. I know what I know and I care about you. Let's dive in. So Shiloh. The song about Neil's imaginary friend growing up. Neil always had Shiloh no matter what else was going on. Yesterday, when I was walking Jefferson in Willow, my two pups, there was a kid, even though it was kind of chilly out, was playing with bubbles.

And it was like old school. It wasn't like one of the bubble guns. But it was like that stick in the bubble stuff and then wave it around and bubbles went flying. And we stopped. We stopped and Jefferson and Willow started the bubbles. And I watched. Then there was one bubble left. And that bubble came floating on over and I watched it. And it was kind of chasing me or moving towards me. It was making eye contact with its bubble eyes and saying, "Hey, you." And then I got kind of feely for a moment.

I didn't want to pop the bubble because if I popped the bubble, the bubble would be gone. And it being the last bubble, the moment the chapter of bubbles would be over. And then think about it at the time as to why that hit me. And then I had a dream last night. So I've had three pups for two different chapters of my life. In my about 12 years ago chapter, I had Sawyer and Stella, who were brother and sister. And then Samuel joined the puppy pack because he needed a home otherwise he was going to be put down.

So we brought him in. So I had those three pups and now they've all passed. And now we've had Hamilton, Jefferson and Willow. And then 11 days ago, Hamilton went over the Rainbow Bridge. And we've been in that state of grief, of missing now our imaginary friend, like Shiloh. So last night I had a dream. There were bubbles by Golly. And I realized what my brain was doing. Sometimes we look at chapters as being here until they're gone. And then they exist in the past. But just like all good things like memories and just like all bad things like trauma.

Nothing is ever really gone. Shiloh, Neil's friend, imaginary from childhood is still around. Neil now is struggling with dementia. Not struggling but is very much fighting a losing battle with dementia. And at the end of a long career, a long life, there were less bubbles floating around. I didn't want to pop that bubble yesterday because when that bubble would be popped, I was worried that it was the end. But in reality, when that bubble popped, that was the end of the freneticness, the craziness, the game, that is life.

And all of a sudden, all that spirit that was in each of those bubbles was finally free. So when that last bubble popped yesterday, I was a little Hamilton reminder that it's like, "Hey, now I don't have to be trapped in this bubble anymore. Now I'm anywhere, now I'm everywhere, now I'm nowhere, and I'm anytime. He need me to be." So no matter where you are, no matter where you are at within your journey of having or losing or remembering or looking back or looking forward, sometimes that bubble pop is not the end, but it's the end of the thing existing within the confine and now existing within the everything, within the ether.

So every time I see a bubble, I know that's going to be Hamilton saying, "Let me go." Anytime I hear Shiloh, I go back to being that little lonely kid. What are the things at any time you see or any time you hear you go? Hmm, because sometimes all we need is that safety of mind and sometimes when we have the safety of mind, it's not enough. We need the bravery of spirit to come into play as well. As we leave for today from the cadre today, I'll go ahead and play the original Shiloh by the one and only Neil Diamond himself.

Have a good day, we'll see you tomorrow. Oh, that voice. Dreaming each frame on your way. See you later, y'all. ♪ Sounds like you end up alone. ♪