Cadre Today

Foreign. Hey Cadre, do you remember this song? Like this has to be a one hit wonder. I'm not sure though. Oh yeah, they're a one hit wonder. Amar, nice to see you my friend. Name this tune, anybody? The pre chorus is almost as good as the chorus. Here it is. You don't know me, you don't even care. Maffy, do you remember this song? You don't know me, you don't wear my chains. All right, we'll hit pause there. That is Augustana is the band name and the song is called Boston. A really good one hit wonder.

I guess everyone hit wonder is good, right? To go and be like, ah, you're those people. So how are we doing everybody? I hope you're doing great. Chris Fortman Smzobbs. Nice to see y'. All. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. So yesterday I had the opportunity to drive out to Afton, Minnesota for the non Minnesotans in the in the room this morning. Afton is one of those places that's nearby but far away. There's a big state park there, there's an apple orchard.

It's about a 45 minute drive that makes you feel like you just drove three or four hours out of where you normally are. I was asked to lead some kind of off the high shelf meditation and movement for a community of people celebrating, reminiscing, remembering the first year in their their purpose and work together. I got out to the yurts and I led the time and all of a sudden I noticed I was wearing this shirt. I had to put it on again today because I'm in a remin, a remembering phase today. That's the topic.

And this is the shirt that I bought after I finished the last world major marathon last April. So about 15 months ago I ran Boston Marathon and and that was the last day that I had ran that I've ran a mile. I haven't ran a mile in the last 15 months. And there were runners in the group and a lot of the analogies that came up were how we see ourselves and what does success and failure look like? What does it look like to be kind and to train and to push and to attach our movement to our mission and purpose in the world.

And I started reminiscing and I told the story that when I was running Boston Marathon, it was already probably about six months into my chronic illness chapter of life. I didn't really know that yet, but it was So I was not incredibly able bodied when I did the marathon in Boston. But I had this story on the day of the marathon bombing, what, 13 years ago now, I got a phone call from the COO of a company that I worked for saying, hey, do you want to move to Boston and open up the region? It's just this really weird call because Boston was in the midst of this trauma, tragedy, hurt, shock, and all of a sudden, this Minnesota boy who's never going to leave Minnesota is getting a call to say, hey, move to Boston.

And I did. 100 days from that day, I opened up the first arm of this business in Boston. And 364 days after I moved to Boston, I moved back to Minnesota as my home address as I then traveled for the next few years. So then fast forward to Boston Marathon 2024, when my body is not great, but I was like, there's no way I'm not going to finish this race. Not because I had to, but because I had this beautiful story of remembering and reminiscing of my time spent in Boston that was going to fuel my way.

So then yesterday, all of a sudden, I'm wearing a shirt that reminds me and more remembering and reminiscing. And it was a really beautiful reminder to myself of the power of remembering and reminiscing. On Fridays, So often we talk about grief, loss, the realities of being someone in this world who connects with other people and other things in this world. As my friend Kelly Grossflogs says, we love for eternity and we grieve for a segment of eternity, right? Love transcends everything. Love continues on even though grief enters the story.

That's the beautiful thing, right? If you love, you're going to grieve. If you have, you're going to lose. But there's a big difference between remembering and reminiscing, right? To remember is to have that thing. To reminisce is to dance with that thing. My last day in Boston before I moved back to Minnesota. So I was a. I am, but I was more so at the time, a yoga teacher. And the last song that I played in my last class in Boston was Augustana's Boston. Which, of course, if you live in Boston, playing the song called Boston, they're like, oh, gosh.

But for a Minnesota boy, it made a lot of sense, you know? And in this song, there's a part where it goes, I think I'll move to Boston. I think I'll start a new life. And that's what I did. I listened to this song before I moved to Boston. I listened to this song the last day I left Boston. And I listened to this song when I ran the marathon. And then I listened to the song again yesterday. Reminiscing is the dancing with the. Dancing with the grief, the loss, the reality of this life that we get to live.

And notice I'm not saying the beautiful this and the beautiful that, because sometimes it's not beautiful. This song is a pretty sad drama, you know, emo type of. Type of tune in a really beautiful, rich way that makes you feel things. Maffy, I asked you, do you remember this song? Maffy's response? Oh, yeah, it's funny. Oh, it's not like. Yeah, yes, I remember the song, period. It's. Oh, yeah, we can hear that. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, I hope you're well. But if you're not, that's okay, too.

I'm gonna hit fast forward here, see if I can find that place where the song kicks in. But have a good day. I'll see you tomor. You don't even care. No. Yeah.