Cadre Today - Thin Space

Hey, Cadre. How are we doing today? Another Sunday. Another middle of a month after it felt like we just started a month. Time keeps marching on. That's a Tracy Lawrence song I think from a long, long time ago. I used to be a country boy. I like country music when country music was not really about anything, which kind of made it about everything. That's kind of my favorite music sometimes. A music that doesn't seem to be about anything. You know, country music in the late 90s, early 2000s was country boys and girls getting down on the farm and singing about the stars and the moons and the trucks and the rivers and wasn't about anything.

So without everybody to find something. Andy Mack, happy Sunday, my friend. I feel like Cadre is kind of like that. It's not about anything. So it can be about everything. You know, fall is the beginning of a lot of school years or a lot of project years or a lot of planning years. You know, a lot of fiscal years start June, July. So all of a sudden, September feels like now we're in it. Hey, Luke, nice to see you my friend. So I spent a lot of time this time of year saying, Hey, if it's about, if this is about anyone, it's about no one.

If any one of us are important, none of us are. I feel like country music at the turn of the century was kind about that. Anyways, that was a long wandering pathway from time marches on to being a Tracy Lawrence theme song title. Yada yada. Anyways, it is Sunday. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know. And I care about you. Sundays, I often bring up this idea of of of thin space. You know, in all September long, you hear contributors waxing and wandering around the idea of safety.

And in a world where there's a lot of people who have power and a lot of people who don't, we often talk about the idea of creating safe space for one another. And I always love offering the reminder. And this is my my my safety PSA all month long. You may not be able to give someone safety. They may not feel safe around you. But you can invite a space that is broad enough where people can be safe or they can be brave. So if all of a sudden the idea of creating safety for something like, no, you can't create safety for me.

Or if you're going, gosh, I just don't feel safe in this moment as as an individual. Maybe bravery is the second ingredient there. Maybe bravery is the precursor or the co-pilot to safety for you. Anyways, often that thin space can feel safe or can feel like a space you need to be really brave in. One of the things that I think is built into our one of the things I think that is built into our world are these moments where we get to be in the thin space without knowing we're in the thin space. And if we can get better at seeing those, you may go, oh, this is what thin space feels like.

Let me share a couple. Maybe when you're getting your hair cut. Maybe when you're cutting your fingernails. Maybe when you're waiting for the elevator door to open or the elevator door to close or the elevator to go up or down and the elevator door to open again. They're all really great moments in time where you can go, huh? Right now, I have the opportunity to be where I am with what I have and to honor that. What about when you're waiting for your table to be ready at a restaurant? What about when you're pumping gas and you're watching the dollars and the gallons go up?

Those are all moments where you can go, huh? Right now, I have the opportunity to be where I am with what I have and to honor that. And also, in those moments, you don't have a choice. You have a person who struggles in those moments or a person who really nuzzles into those moments. I will tell you, I am a person who nuzzles in. I am a person who will volunteer to go do the drive to the store to pick up the thing. I'll go to the kinkos to pick up the copies. I will sit in the car wash, even though my car isn't that dirty.

Right now it is because I was drove to Iowa the last couple of days . I will volunteer to do those things that seem tedious or time sucking because in those moments, I find thin space. My invitation for you today is to find that moment that is a part of the reality of life. I just filled up my gas tank. If I had a few more minutes, I'd go get my car washed. What are those times in the waiting rooms of life where you can go? Find one of those today. Time marches on. Time marches on. Time marches on.

Time marches on. Time marches on. Tracy Lawrence, y'all. Good little tune. Kind of a great song in the midst of a lot of other music that I never really liked, but I like that song. All right, I'll talk to you later.