JC opens the session, thanks the audience for joining, and expresses gratitude and care to establish a supportive space for the message. The speaker acknowledges that people may feel ready or depleted, but emphasizes that changing capacity doesn't reduce intrinsic worth or capability.
JC opens the session, thanks the audience for joining, and expresses gratitude and care to establish a supportive space for the message.
The speaker acknowledges that people may feel ready or depleted, but emphasizes that changing capacity doesn't reduce intrinsic worth or capability.
He recounts playing catch on stage, the show's ending, and deciding to keep a baseball signed by a colleague as a tangible memento of the experience.
The talk broadens into how life events leave us with 'tchotchkes'—small items and lessons—explaining that context makes those memories more valuable and describing the baseball as a symbol of relationship and memory.
JC invites listeners to consider what they carry in mind, heart, and hands, reiterates the unchanging value of those things, and signs off with a friendly goodbye.
Good morning, Update. And we'll hit the pause before we hit the chorus. That's how we'll end our cadre today. Hey everybody, my name is JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thanks for the opportunity to spend some time with you here and now. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know the things I know, Steph Irwin, and I care about you. your weekly reminder, your daily reminder that you may be ready to hit this week hard and with everything you got and your expertise and the things you've picked up along the way, or you may be feeling like you should crawl back into bed.
And here's the deal, even though your capacity, even though your capabilities may shift and change, your energy level may change, your value does not. You are still incredibly capable and worthy, Dr. Cherise. You are still incredibly ready to do things that you may not know until the moment presents. And because you're taking time like this to go ahead and open mind and open heart and to share and to do the little things that start to do the big things, you're in a great place. So this is a baseball.
This baseball, hey Mike, nice to see you my friend. This baseball and I have spent a lot of time together over the last 10 weeks. I wrapped up a play yesterday and in that play I play catch with my buddy Baron in the middle of the show. So on stage we play catch while we talk about the life that we've lived. When we were getting ready to leave yesterday and say, hey, see you never. And I say that with a lot of heart and a lot of care, but it's a beautiful thing about theater because once a show closes, it's gone.
The whole world is torn apart and it never exists again. So as we were saying, all right, the show's done, goodbye forever. Because if we see each other again, it'll be in a different space, a different context, a different story, a different time, all those things. As we were leaving, I told Baron, Hey Baron, I'm keeping the ball. And then I had him sign it. This ball is going to be with me forever. I'm going to carry it with me as a great reminder of the things that this experience provided me.
Because the interesting thing is experiences that we have, like stopping at the gas station, or going on a walk, or brushing our teeth, or going back to school and getting a PhD, or getting married, or getting divorced, or falling in love, or losing somebody, or saying goodbye to your childhood pet, or making that big mistake that you wish you didn't make. All these things provide us tchotchkes, little things that we carry with us. And those things have great value. It was a couple of days ago I did a cadre today on context and laundry and how Context makes the information to carry on 73% greater than if we don't have context.
So knowing what you're doing and why you're doing it and what you are swimming with is a really important thing. I read that in my first lesson, in my first class in my PhD program. And I was like, this is something I'm going to carry with me. This makes so much sense to me on how important context is. This baseball isn't just a baseball. It's a representation of a relationship that I have with someone who I've known for five years because I directed Baron's first show five years ago. And now I got to play his dad on stage and we got to play catch 87 times over 10 weeks.
I'm going to carry this baseball with me because it represents a lot of things that I carry alongside with the baseball. My invitation for you today is this. Consider the experiences you have and consider what you carry on with you. Because I like to think that part of the value of our life, which does not change, our capacity and capabilities do, but our value does not. Part of our value are those things that we carry with us in head, in heart, and sure, in hands. Y'all have a good one and I will see you tomorrow.
