Cadre Today - Favorite Quote #3

I know it's for the best. Good morning, Cadre. And leave them on your doorstep. I'll tiptoe away so you won't have to say you. You heard me, Leave. You can have Manhattan. I know it's what you want. The bustle and the buildings, the weather in the fall. Hey, Maffy. Hey, junk food junkie. How about a place to save you some space for somebody new? You can have Manhattan. Cause I can't have you. And we'll hit the pause button right there on Sara Bareilles singing the song Manhattan. Hey, happy Sunday morning, everybody.

And if it's not a happy Sunday morning, that's okay. I'm not going to say I wish it was for you. Because even if I do wish all the wonderful things for you, we know that they don't show up in abundance, in consistency, and when we want them to. So for me to wish you good things if you're not having good things right now would kind of make it seem like, gosh, if you don't have the good things and you don't got nothing, you still got something. You got all the things you have. And everything you have is always something you can put to use, put to worth, put to rest, and serves as a reminder that you are here, you are alive, and you are doing this so called life thing.

My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now in the Cadre sphere. What is Cadre? Cadre is a special group of people with a special intention. Hey, Matt Tappy. Happy Sunday morning. And that special intention is to remind each of us that there's lots of ways to do this life. There's lots of ways to be better, to be, well, to be curious and courageous, to be thoughtful and passionate, to go ahead and work harder, to rest better.

All the things that you may deem as important at any moment. So I'm glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. That song I was playing at the beginning, Manhattan by Sara Bareilles, it's a sad song. It's a song about Sarah saying, hey, you know what? You can have Manhattan. I will settle for the beach. I will. I will leave this city that I love because I know you love it too. And it's a song of loss, it's a song of separation. And it's a song that makes me feel all the things for the last couple of days.

I've been sharing my three favorite quotes. As I've said each day, I normally don't quote other people very often. I think in a world where we are often led to go, okay, find the person who is smarter than you, who is better than you, who has the answers, who's done the thing, who's figured out the magical spell. It removes us from the idea that we are also magical beings. We also have perspective. We also have powerful things that other people need from us. So my encouragement is always quote yourself.

Look at the life you live and the things that come out of it. The evidence, the artifacts, the things that make sense to you. And all of a sudden the world will go, huh? Who said that? And you'll go, well, I did. And it's like, oh, yeah, right. You have the ability to have that impact on people. But the last couple of days, I've shared my three favorite quotes from other people. Two days ago, I shared Edith Wharton's quote on where light comes from. And that is light comes from the candle, from the source, but also from the mirror, from those who reflect.

Yesterday I shared Viktor Frankl quote about the power that we have after something happens and before we react to it, right? The space in between the stimulus and the response, that is where our power is. And today, today I would like to share a quote by Bertold Brecht. And Bertold was once asked the question, will there be music in the dark times? And the second half of this quote is, yes, there will be music about the dark times. And I love that quote, because music is one of the ways that. That humans express the things that they can't simply express with words.

And sometimes we go, it's like, oh, are we supposed to be loud when we're sad? Are we supposed to be loud when things are dark? Are we supposed to be loud when we are silent? And the answer is yes. Our art allows us the pathways to express all of the things. I'm gonna hit the pause button for a moment. Junk food junkie says. JC Besides the live contributors, there's also lots of good posts on Cadre. That is good stuff to help everyone. Absolutely. Jugfu Junkie. We have kind of three or four really big avenues for opportunities to find resources, resources here.

One is this being able to connect in live moments with. With each other. Number two, when you open up your Cadre app, you can scroll, scroll, scroll, and you will find the community feed where. Where everybody can go ahead and share resources and thoughts and stories and pictures and videos and links. And number three, you can join communities, right? Communities where it's like, oh, I really want information on X. Hit the three lines up in the corner and you can go and scroll different communities to go and tap into.

But also, as you dig in deeper, you'll see actual resources to other opportunities for therapy, for care, for resource, for things outside of Cadre. And that's the aha. So when I say, what is Cadre's mission and purpose in this world? It is to bring together people who are professionals and peers, who weave together resources and community to show the world that there's lots of ways to be. Well, that's not just here, actually. This is. This is one thread within that tapestry. Thank you, junk food Junkie, for tapping my brain to go ahead and say that out loud once again.

So what are the sad songs? What are the hard songs? What are the songs that you listen to when you're like, gosh, you know, I'm not in a. In a happy song place, or I'm not in a. In a grounded. The sun is shining space. Sometimes in those moments we. We think that. I often love saying, like, when we are feeling so low, the answer most of the time isn't to go so low. So when we're feeling so low S o space lo w when we're feeling down, the correct response a lot of times isn't to go solo S o L O but it's to go ahead and say, hey, how do I amplify what I'm feeling for other people to experience?

I started listening to this Sara Bareilles Manhattan song when I was living in Boston for one day short of one calendar year. I lived in Boston for 364 days. And for a lot of that time there was beautiful work being done. You know, a memorable year. It was a sad, depressing in year for me in a lot of ways. And it was songs like that that I found living in the big city of Boston, knowing that the big city in New York was just right down the road, that I was like, wow. To go ahead and feel something so much that you would give away the biggest city in the world.

That feeling was one that made me that validated what I was feeling. So I invite you today on Sundays, we often talk about thin space. Finding yourself in the exact moment that you are in rather than thinking about the future or learning from the past. Maybe it's that song that you'll listen to today where you go, hmm, yeah, this is exactly where I am. This is helping me feel the feels that I want to feel because I'm feeling them, y'. All. No matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, I hope that you are well.

We'll listen to one more verse of Sara Bareilles, Manhattan, and I'll see you tomorrow. The one we used to share. The one where we were laughing and drunk on just being there. Elton John. Sad songs. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Good song. Junk food junkie. Have a good day. Everybody just too sad, too. You can have Manhattan, cuz I.