Cadre Today

Nobody can tell you there's only one song worth singing they may try and sell you. Cause it hangs them up to see someone like you. But you gotta make your own kind of music Sing your own stuff make your own kind of music Nobody else is along Ah, you gotta make your own kind of music Even if nobody else sings along. Anila T. North Good morning, y'. All. That's a little Cass Elliott, a little Mama Cass. Sing you in today. Make your own kind of music. Why? Because you don't really have a choice. Jules, nice to see you.

Right. There's some. Some, some challenge and charge and hard truth to that reality. If we sing someone else's song, it's always going to be slightly undernourishing. Mel. We have to find our music, even if nobody else sings with us. But I'll tell you, when we sing our music, we teach other people how to do the same thing, right? For them to sing their music and then for all of the cacophony of musics in the world to mix into that wonderful buzz known as support, known as creation, known as creativity, known as potential, known as all those things.

C. if we haven't spent time together before, or if it's been a little while, it's nice to see you and thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you. I'm really glad that I'm here. I'm really glad that you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Those 17 words. Well, 19, because I added two reallys in there is something that is not my own song. I heard it from a mentor of mine when I was in Chicago for a few days, months and months ago now, but all of a sudden I wove it into our song here, our song in Cadre today, which we've been doing now.

I've been. I've been a voice in the Cadre sphere for over two years and on this daily kick for, I don't know, over a year. And every single time when we come into this space, y' all help write a really beautiful song. And that happens because we look out at the world rather than looking in at ourselves. That's the outward facing click, right? When you go ahead and look at the world and say, you know what? The longer I'm a part of the things I care about, the less it is about me and the more that it's about the people who have yet to be here.

There is life and excitement in that type of lens, looking at the world through that type of lens. So often on Tuesdays, you have the Betsy Hodges and the doctor Leslie's. The people who really talk about how do we form relationships with one another? And the thing that I appreciate about both of them and everybody else here as well. Is that we're always going, who's new? Who are the people who don't know the inside joke, who don't know the why, the what, the where, the how, the when. And how do we make sure we're speaking to them?

Because if we're speaking to them, we're speaking to everybody. And that's the invitation today for Mama Cass to the Cadre sphere. What's the song that only you can sing? Because it's coming from your eyes, your hands, your hearts, your heads and when you share with the world others you know. Again, the last line of Mama Cass's chorus. You gotta make your own kind of music Sing your own special song make your own kind of music Even if nobody else sings along. That last line sounds maybe a little bit dire, like, and you may be lonely.

But no, I think Mama is saying that that may be the case. But more so. What Mama Cass is saying is that the success indicator of your song is not, does everybody become you? But do you open the space for everybody to become more of themselves? That's the opportunity that you have. By golly, it's really good for our mental health. When we see other people doing things that are really good for their mental health. And y' all right here right now are doing really good things for your mental health.

Thanks for that. It's helping me do the same thing for me. I will see y' all tomorrow. But in the meantime, special song. Make your own kind of music Even if nobody else sings along Funky, y'. All. Talk to you later. You're gonna be nowhere.