Give a little bit of my love to me. Give a little bit. I'll give a little bit of my love to you. And I'll hit the pause. Little super tramp to get us in this morning on this Friday, September 4th. I hope you're doing great, Cadre. But even if you're not, guess what? Still incredibly capable, still incredibly worthy, and you're still probably going to do some pretty miraculous things today. You got Steve Martin and John Candy over my right shoulder. You got Kurt Vonnegut and his dog sitting on his bed over my left shoulder.
You got me. I'm JC. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know the things I know and I care about you. So if we've spent time together before, you, good morning Mel Myers, you know that I spent some time in the theater. The theater, I music direct and artistic direct and once every six years I get on stage and be in a show and then I remember that I don't have the energy to be in a show. Anyways, right now I am music directing a production of Come From Away, the story of September 11th, 2001, when 7,000 people got grounded, 38 planes worth of people got grounded in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.
And it's the story of these 7,000 people and the 9,000 people who took care of them for five days and the relationships they made So that's what I'm working on right now. Whenever I music direct, the actors in the show get very used to watching me watch shows like this. I never look at the stage. I never actually watch the show with my eyes. I watch the show with my ears. Because when I invite the the actors to think about is imagine that 50% of your audience is blind and imagine that 50% of your audience is deaf.
And please actors, as well as you possibly can, attempt to give both of those groups of people the same experience. So if people can't see the stage, how do they experience the story? With their ears. And if people can't hear, how do they experience the stage? with what they see. So all of a sudden they need to get facial expression by listening. They need to hear the music by seeing. And I think as we think about how we communicate and share things that we're passionate about and hard conversations and love and humor and teaching and all these things, Sometimes we go, well, I said the right words.
Why didn't they listen to me? Or, well, I'm leading by example. Why don't they just do what I do? It's because someone may need to see what you're saying. Someone may need to hear what you're doing. That's my invitation for you today, to consider How are you communicating those people who may need to see or hear you differently? Imagine half your world is blind and half your audience is deaf, and that goes for your home, for your workplace, for your neighborhood, and for this little planet that we all share.
Y'all, give a little bit today. It is always enough. There's so much that we need to share, so send a smile.
