A host reflects on a Cadre gathering after a Pentatonix concert, describes the Cadre sphere as a mix of professionals and peers, and introduces a three-day series sharing their three favorite quotes about light, community, and personal discernment.
The music make you lose your soul. Happy Friday, y'all. Just clap your hands and stomp your feet. She hurt you so say get up and dance.
Pentatonix was in town last night here in the Twin Cities. A big bunch of Cadre peeps went to see that concert together. It was fun to see faces that often exist simply through screen names here.
The Cadre sphere is a place where you can come and find people who are in certain ways professionals and in other ways peers. All these people are weaving together resources and offering opportunities like this of conversation to show you that there's lots of ways of being well.
Over the next three days, I'm going to share with you my three favorite quotes. Edith Wharton says, light is shared in two ways. From the candle and from the mirror. This Friday, y', all of the traditional Friday activities.
It doesn't matter it doesn't matter Just clap your hands and stomp your feet it doesn't matter it doesn't matter she hurt you so say get up and dance Just feel that. Morning, Mel. The music make you lose your soul. Happy Friday, y'. All. Carrie, Anna, how we doing? T. North. Hello? Hello? Speak Wonder. I'll hit the pause button. That was sing by Pentatonix who was in town last night here in the Twin Cities where I call home. A big bunch of Cadre peeps went to see that concert together last night.
It was fun to see faces that often exist simply through screen names here. Getting to go ahead and spend time together in seats next to one another there. So what'd you do last night? What was your Thursday night like? Thursday, November 20th. Were you by yourself? Was it a time of music, of celebration, of joy, of rest, of pastime? Was it a night of rest, A night of work, A night of loneliness, a night of restlessness? No matter what that wonderful long list of things that your night was, know that that's all part of the story.
It's all part of the. The game that we play within this, this human life where a lot of things have been created for, for our enjoyment, our enrichment, our distraction, our detriment, right? This, this human existence is one that is laden with a lot of things that as a being, right the way that we're created, as the cells come together, all of a sudden we go, huh? We have to navigate something that we weren't designed to do. That's live this so called human life. Speak Wonder went to a 70s concert last night.
I love it. Carrie. Yes, you did spend time with your Cadre peeps and it was a joy to see you, my friend. Hey, I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know the things that I know and I care about you. All those little elements, those little building blocks are what makes the Cadre sphere, what the Cadre sphere is. That's a place where you can come and find people who are in certain ways professionals and in other ways peers. People who've, who've lived experiences so they may have some answers or maybe are walking in fresh with open eyes and they have some questions.
But all these people are weaving together resources and offering opportunities like this of conversation to show you that there's lots of ways of being well, lots of ways to journey towards that more well, space. Over the next three days, I'm going to share with you my three favorite quotes Something to know about me is I often refrain from doing a lot of quoting of other people, blindly quoting of other people, or looking to other people for all of the answers. Now, obviously, if you also know me, I'm a huge student of all the things.
I'm always listening and watching everybody and everything. But we live in a world where we often are told that we aren't enough and that all of the answers exist outside of ourselves. So I spend a lot of time making up my own stuff, discerning and deciphering and forging in the fire of existence, my own truth, and then weaving, and it's like. And these are the things that simply make sense to me from outside. So I'm going to share three of those things over the next three days. The first one is one I've already shared.
I think it was even this week. It was early this week. And it's an Edith Wharton quote. And Edith Wharton says, light is shared in two ways. From the candle and from the mirror. Especially on Fridays, near the end of the week, we can feel depleted. We can feel like we don't have the thing that maybe we had at the beginning or that we had when we had a little bit more energy. So then often we go, I don't have the thing. Thinking that we are always supposed to be the light or that we are always supposed to be the one who is the source for ourselves and for others.
We'll call it the candle. The beautiful thing about this quote, Edith says, hey, light is shared in two ways. Candle and mirror. A lot of our work is humans. If you've ever heard, like, de centering work or, you know, the. The acknowledging our own stance, our own privilege, our own power work, and going, oh, yeah, you know what? Maybe I need to listen more. Maybe my perspective is exactly that. My perspective. Maybe there's other perspectives that are needed in the room. And we may go, yeah, but I don't have other people's perspectives.
No, but you can reflect them. You can go, I'm going to maybe rather than being loud with my mouth, I'm gonna be loud with my eyes. I'm gonna be loud with my reactions. I'm gonna be loud with my appreciation. I'm gonna be loud with all the things that help people go, whoa. Well, let's see what JC thinks. And people look at jc and then all of a sudden, JC sends their energy towards someone else or towards some other thing. So, as I said earlier, I often focus on coming up with my own pathways, my own thoughts, my own stories, my own words, my own quotes.
Today, what am I doing? I'm being the mirror, and I'm saying, hey, Edith Wharton. Edith Wharton said, light is shared in two ways. From the candle and from the mirror. Today, are you the candle? You need the mirror. T. North says, lots of window time in dense fog. Last couple of days driving. Yeah. The headlights being the candle, the world reflecting back through other mirrors, through drops of rain, through puddles and reflections on signs and windows and mirrors as you drive by. We are constantly reminded that light is reflected, refracted in lots of ways.
And that's a little moment today. So if you got time last night, you had time with friends and loved ones at, like, a Pentatonix concert, you may be feeling a little bit more like you got some candle to shine today. If you are maybe alone and driving and looking through the fog and feeling like the whole world is kind of watercolored today, maybe a good day for you to be the mirror. But no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, just raise your voice and bring some noise and do whatever you got to do.
This Friday, y', all, it is the end of the traditional work week. So even if you still got a lot going on, you're gonna feel a lot of other people going, huh? You find a ha in your own life as well. Have a good one. Bye. Let them bring it down.
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