Cadre Today

My old friend lives up in the mountains. He flew up there to paint the world, he says, even though interpretation's what I count on. Man, this little picture to me seems blurred. Hard lines and the shadows come easy. Hey, Emily. See it all just as clear as a bell. I just can't seem to set my easel to please me. I paint my heaven, but it looks like h*** dead. I'm gonna hit pause. The next lines are. Your blue might be gray. Your less might be more. Your window to the world might be your own front door.

Your shiniest day might come in the middle of the night. That's just about right. This is an old song by a country band named Blackhawk from Gosh. 95, 98. Sometime around there. But I love this story of this man who left his life to go up. And I'm glad that you're here. And I know the things that I know else here, including Emily 8770. Thank you for being a part of this Cadre sphere. So I'd love for you to do something. Take your piece of fingers and then go, whoop. Make a little square. Look through that little square, see what you see.

You can only look in the square. So I can see my scissors. I can see my little circle light. I can see my laptop. I can see you. But so much of me wants to go ahead and, like, look outside of this little box. But right now, the exercise is to look in the box. Even if I move the box further away, like, okay, now I can see the box. But now I can see less. So if I want to see more, I need to, like, squeeze my head into the box. Okay, step two of this exercise. Look at everything that's outside of the box.

There's a lot more outside the box than there is inside the box. The whole world is outside of that box. Here's the deal. Your life is seeing what's inside the box. That's what you have. That's. That's your perspective. That's your life. That's your privilege. That's your responsibilities. That's your reality. That's. This box is created by you and your hard work, but it's also created by the rest of the world. So I'll tell you what. If you have anybody who starts going, here's the answer. Here's the big picture of the whole world.

I invite you to invite them to slow down. I invite you to ask them questions. I invite you to help them see that they are wanting to have this perspective. But in reality, this is the perspective they own, you know, whether you believe in higher powers or divine things or nature or God or what. What. Whatever the power is or not. I like speaking about that higher power thing in this context because at the end of the day, there are a lot of people who are trying to sell you the here's the right answer.

Here's the seven things that if you do, all of a sudden your life will be better. If all of a sudden you start using this lip balm, then all of a sudden life will be great. All of a sudden you start. You start walking backwards and all of a, everybody will love you more. And it'll sound really good because it'll sound really clear. Now here's the deal. The things that. That are outside your perspective, that make you go, huh? Yeah, that makes sense to me. Do those things not because it's the magical right answer, but because it's another thing that you find along your pathway that you go, yeah, but here's my invitation.

Rather than thinking that that thing is magical, see that thing as being adjacent to the magic. That thing isn't magical. This lip balm isn't magical. C. i remember when you took time and connected with me and you talked and you shared your lip balm. That lip balm reminded me that I'm not alone in the world. So every time I use this lip balm, I feel a little less alone. And when I feel a little less alone, I feel a little bit more courageous and curious and happy and free. And all of a sudden you realize, wasn't lip balm, it was connection with other humans.

If all of a sudden you start going, oh my gosh, I started cooking eggplant every night. And then all of a sudden, everything in life just started getting better. You may go, oh my gosh, eggplant is magic. And I go, no, eggplant is adjacent to the magic. The magic probably is that you slowed down, that you took time to say, I am worthy of creating something special for maybe cooking the eggplant brought you closer to spending time with your partner or your kids or the house that you. That you get to live in.

And your appreciation for that thing went up and all of a sudden you realized the eggplant wasn't magical, but as if it was time it was. Careful. The things that actually possess magic. Two things I love saying, feeling like s*** is bad for your health and doing little things for yourself often are really good. 99% of the time, the wellness world is going to sell you the idea that there are magical things to do and that there is innately bad things in this world. You are more resilient than that.

Here's what's true Being around other people who are creating a world for you with resources and ideas and time and emotion and laughter and love. Showing you that you have the opportunity to live your life, which is going to look very different than everybody living theirs. Yeah, there's something magical there. Guess what? That's Cadre. Your blue might be gray? Your less might be more? Your window to the world might be your own front door? Your shiniest day? It might come in the middle of the night?

That is just about right? Have a good day, everybody. Your less might be more? Your window to the world might be your own front door? Your shiniest day might come in the middle of the night? That's just about right? That's just about right.