Hidden Gems

Okay, we're live, and you're looking straight up at a pomegranate that I just cut. I'll reveal the contents pretty soon. Here. And a pine cone and some seed pods from milkweed. All of which I'm going to explain. Let me get my camera turned around. There's junk food. Hi. I can't get my camera to turn around. What is happening? Whenever I go live, some of the. Good morning. Good morning. All right. I was so sure I'd be able to turn my camera around for you. Now you're seeing parts of the kitchen area of my tiny home.

You guys, I might have to stop and come back. Junk food, will you stand by and come right in because I want to demonstrate some things today. Okay, I'm going to stop the live stream. Come back in. All right. Junk food, check to make sure the flip camera isn't locked. The flip for the camera, you know it is not. Anyway, could you give me junk food, a thumbs up or a heart to tell me that I'm back? Because truly, I don't know if I'm supposed to reschedule and come back in. I think I'm okay. Just a heart or a thumbs up or sunshine.

Something to tell me that I'm back. Streaming live. This is probably the first, maybe the second time I've had to come back in. And honestly, I can't remember if I had to actually go on the Cadre and reschedule and then come in again. But according to this, the little word debug is on there, which means we're live. And I'm going to proceed because also, the fact that I have little red stop button means that we're streaming live, because how would we not unless that stop button was there. Okay, good morning.

This is one time when I wish that my little corgi had opposing thumbs so she could hold the camera and turn it when I'm doing a demo. See, like, I don't even know. I don't even know what you can see. Can you see the pomegranate? Because that's really part of my display today on the Cadre. Welcome in. Welcome in. I'm Speakwonder, also known as Kathy. And I'm not a coach per se, but I'm a contributor on Cadre. And it's because we are all coming in to speak about our life situations and see how things work in the mental health arena, emotional health, spiritual health, and physical well being.

Thursdays, typically here on Cadre are caregiver day. I'm a caregiver to my mom. She lives in a nursing home. However, as her administrator and as her daughter and the person who loves on her reads to her over the phone and goes in to see her, I am in fact a caregiver. So I'm not seeing hearts or thumbs up or sunshines, but I'm gonna plow through. I am see what happens. If I come back and discover it did not air, then I will reschedule a live stream because this one, you guys, this is. This is a really fun demo that I wanted to demonstrate as advertised.

I went in and did a promo for Cadre and I said I would be presenting about hidden gems and treasures we cannot see. So it is a metaphor. I love metaphors. I love hands on real life situations and examples in nature that also give us strength and resilience for the days of our lives. That was a soap opera, you know? But I digress. All right, so there's something beautiful about a pomegranate. I am a lover of pomegranates. Junk food. Are you there? Is anybody there? Oh, I think I had to have rescheduled.

This is crazy. Okay, if I'm live, I'm live. Super. If I'm not, I'll consider this a dress rehearsal and I'll come back later. For now, I'm going to continue. No one's joining. Oh, man. Hello. I'm going to make it brief. Brevity is the soul of wit. So I love pomegranates. I love picking them up at the grocery. And they come into season about this time of year, and they're available in the produce sections here in northwest Pennsylvania. So I love to harvest them. Some people will say to me, why don't you just get the seeds that are already harvested?

They come in these nice little clear containers in the produce section. But no, I'd rather harvest the thing. And they're big. Look how big, you guys. Look how large that thing is. All right, so we're gonna do the unveiling. Look at those seeds. Aren't they just a thing of beauty? You're going to learn in just a minute or so how mathematically correct this is. So I take this little tiny fork with little tiny prongs and I pull out the seeds. There are many methods. I've seen them online on tutorials on how to harvest a pomegranate.

One is to smash the thing against your sink and all the seeds pop out. I find that to be a bit chaotic. I like to just pull them out, maybe have the radio going or my Pandora or YouTube or a Cadre speaker and just work away at those and the result is worth the effort. I put them in a bowl, a large bowl with a lid, stick them in the fridge, and then I eat them like a treat. I call it nature's pop Rocks. Pomegranate. Super hydrating, anti inflammatory antioxidant. Wonderful for you. And they. The pomegranate seeds have often found their way to my Thanksgiving table as well as a garnish similar to cranberry sauce.

So I wanted to show you the pomegranate, which I just did. And then behold the pine cone. We collected these yesterday. My granddaughter Tilly and I had what we're calling now a golden day where we traipsed about in the woods here on the farm where I live, and we picked up pine cones. We picked up these lovelies. These are, of course, milk. Milk. Milkweed. And thank you. I had to remember they're called milkweed. I really don't think I'm live speaking into the abyss. Okay, so she loves. Tilly loves releasing the milkweed into the air.

She calls them soft clouds. Oh, my. Can we get the soft clouds? Can we get the soft clouds? I think for a kiddo or for a grown up child, it's very much like the blowing bubbles. You. You just kind of release them up and watch them float and maybe try to catch them. And we were able to do that. Hidden gems. So when we open the pod, here's these gems inside that are unseen until we look and discover and explore. And I do love how Tilly interprets our woods and trail experiences. She calls the trees that line each side of the pathway.

She calls it a tree tunnel. And when we're out in the field where the deer have been nestling down, when it's nighttime, she calls that the bumpy grass. And she wants to go walk on the bumpy grass. And then we go look in the barn, which is empty now. No livestock, no animals, no hay. Just equipment stuff to keep the place up, which is none of my responsibility because I rent. But my landlords have farmed this for generations. So here is the Reader's digest version. Because honestly, I don't think I'm on here if you're replaying this.

God love you. All right. There's something hidden in every pine cone. I'm reading this verbatim. A friend sent this from an online link and I just absolutely loved it. So there was not a word I wanted to edit in the transcription. So I'm going to read it. To you, there's something hidden in every pine cone. It's a pattern. And this pattern is called the Fibonacci sequence. Look closely at any pine cone and you'll see spirals going in two different directions. So when you're looking right at it, you'll see the spirals.

This is going to appeal to the mathematicians and the physicists in the group and the common Joe like me, who's just plain curious. Fibonacci numbers. And nature cannot stop repeating these numbers. It's very intentional in nature, like the number 8, 13 or 21, and each one is the sum of the two numbers before it. It's a pattern that forms a spiral found in everything from pine cones to hurricanes. This is how plants grow without colliding and how seeds fit perfectly inside a flower and how galaxies find their rhythm.

You guys, this is pure poetry right here. Pine cones use this pattern to space out their seed bearing scales so that everyone gets enough air and enough light. Nature doesn't do random. It displays efficient, elegant and intelligent design. It's both mathematically beautiful and universally connected. Nature doesn't do random. Let's look for those hidden gems, those pomegranate seeds lurking inside the casing. And we discover something that is life giving, nurturing and healthy. What hidden treasures will you find today in the universe around you?

I invite you to join Michael at 1. I don't know how to pronounce your last name. Michael, is it? Laverdier? Laverdier. I'm probably not saying it correctly. Michael is going to talk to us at 1 o' clock Eastern about easing challenges associated associated with changes. Easing challenges associated with change. And then at 3:00 clock Eastern, Ms. Shannon Paul comes along with her beautiful smile and she talks about comedy through the chaos. On today caregiver day, I invite you to sail into safe harbor.

Don't forget your harbor pilots. Those are your friends who help you mind the shoals and the objects under the water, the people familiar with the territory who will guide you safely. Take care.