Cadre invites listeners to share what gives them pause or joy this morning. From St. Louis Park, Minnesota, to Shell Lake, Wisconsin, contributors share their stories. There's a lot of freedom that's found within loss. Jason is doing a show at the Minnesota Fringe Festival.
Cadre invites listeners to share what gives them pause or joy this morning. From St. Louis Park, Minnesota, to Shell Lake, Wisconsin, contributors share their stories. There's a lot of freedom that's found within loss.
Jason is doing a show at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. It's his 10th Fringe show and it's all about his 50th year on Earth. No one prepares you for grief or loss. This life is not about arriving at the place where we move past grief. We move forward with it.
Witness says sometimes you have to grieve people who are still living. The things we grieve are not things that have left but things or things that we've needed to walk away from sometimes. I'll see y' all tomorrow morning. Have a great day.
I'm trying to tell you something about my life. Get me inside. Between black and white. And the best thing you ever done for me is to help you take my life less seriously. Good morning, honey. Speak. Wonder how you doing? Amar, Nice to see you. We'll take verse two here. We need a little harmony, don't we? Marisa? Nice to see you, my friend. Ah, the witness. How you doing? Chorus. Everybody, let's sing. Let me hear you. I went to the doctor I went to the mountains I looked to the children I drank from the fountains need to play it off.
Closer I am to fine, y'. All. Every time I pop on into the Cadre sphere, I'm a little bit closer to fine. Like we always say, Cadre is a space where we are inviting you to see that there's many ways, many pathways to being well. And we know we're doing what we intend to do here. If you go. Ah, those couple of minutes brought me a little bit closer to fine. My name's jc if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you. One of my favorite things is to remember that we get to be close here, right?
We're all on the same screen, but we're all coming from different places. So where are you calling in from this morning? Not only, like, city, state, but. But what's one thing that you're seeing that's given you a little bit of pause or joy or exhale or calm? I will start. I'm coming to you from St. Louis Park, Minnesota, and something that always gives me calm. If you ever wonder what I'm doing with my hands, because I'm always twiddling with something. I have these little metallic, kind of like little metallic balls, little magnets, and you can kind of pull them apart, but it's super, super cathartic for me.
So this is bringing me a little bit of pause and joy as I chat with you. Where are you? And what's bringing you a little pause or joy this morning with that? I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you are here. I know what I know and. And I care about you. On Fridays, you end up seeing a lot of people chatting about grief and loss and the journey towards change. You know, this whole month of July, which is almost done, by golly, freedom has been kind of the big idea that a lot of people who are contributors are pouring from.
And it may be a weird way to think about it, but there's a lot of freedom that's found within loss. If you saw the title of today's livestream for Cadre today, it says dancing on his grave. I'll talk about that in a second. We have people who are tuning in with coffee and sunrise. The beauty of community. More coffee and some birds. Finding fossils and rocks and remnants from the past and finding knowledge and inquisitiveness as we research them coming from the east coast. And then we got some water, got some more birds.
There's lots of birds tuning into Cadre today. We need to go ahead and get them their own accounts, don't we? Yeah, I was gonna say t North. I agree. Like a good beach is something that, that, that I'm craving right now. I will be in Shell Lake, Wis. Shell Lake Arts center next week as a teaching artist there. So I'll get to be on the beach of Shell Lake next week. So I'll do at least a live stream from, from the dock and from the beach out there. Okay. So I have a newer friend. His name is Jason.
He is a storyteller and a comedian. He is a recently turned 51 year old individual. Previous lives had him working with Rosie o' Donnell and opening up for the great Louis Anderson in their shared comedy space. Anyways, Jason is, is doing a show at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. The Fringe Festival is a, an opportunity for, for storytellers and theater creators to, for this 10 day period create their own shows. And all the theaters in the Twin Cities kind of open their doors to allow them to, to do their, to do their shows.
So lots of shows going on. This is gonna be Jason's 10th Fringe show and it's all about his 50th year on Earth. So it's looking back over this last year and like I say, he's a comedian, he's a wonderful storyteller, but there's always a little bit of chuckle in the things that, that, that, that he shares. And this whole show is him talking about how life growing up as a Gen X individual did not prepare him for real life stuff. You know, being a Gen Xer, he jokes, it's like, well, I learned how to get ready if I'm ever attacked by a swarm of killer bees.
I know how to get out of quicksand. I know how to stop, drop and roll. I know how to go ahead and get into the nuclear fallout shelter in school, but I don't know how to deal with grief or loss or, or being ghosted or yada yada, yada, yada, yada. And he asked me to go ahead and do. To do the music for. For. For the show. So I'll get to be. Be in the space with Jason over the next couple of weeks here. But here's the story that he told me that really hit me on his 50th birthday. It was the 20th anniversary of his mother passing away.
And he. He went on his birthday to go and clean up his. His mother's grave. And he told the story that, you know, as a. As a person who he didn't know if he was ever going to, you know, find a. A mate, if he was ever going to be buried next to. He bought the plot next to his mom's grave when she died. So as he's cleaning up his. His, his mom's grave and visiting his mom's grave site on his birthday, he was listening to music and he all of a sudden found himself dancing on his grave site. And the song that was playing was Indigo Girls closer to fine.
And he spoke about. It's like, is this weird? Why does it feel nice? It feels right. Do other people do this? And that's how this show opens him going. No one prepares you, especially if you're a Gen Xer, where you were more focused on, oh, my gosh, when am I going to find myself in quicksand? Which, if you're like me, I also had that fear. And I still have never found the quicksand to the point. Grief is something that we may see how other people experience it and how people move through life on the other side of having.
In the moments of have not. And. And in those moments, we see joy and confusion and clarity and darkness and. And we. We laugh through the tears and we. And when we cry through the good times and we go, oh, yeah, that's right, we move towards. We move closer to fine. This life is not about arriving at the place where, as my great friend Nora McInerney says, We don't move past grief. We move forward with it. We learn how to pick up the thing and to dance forward with it. So I wanted to share that because all of a sudden, now every time I hear Closer to Fine, I'm going to think about my new friend Jason dancing around on his grave with joy, with clarity, with the remembrance of his mother.
And I'm going to go, this song now has a whole different perspective for me. Let's go look back on the comments. So lots of shared energy on the beach and the digging and the finding. The witness says fossils are all over beaches and lakes. Don't overlook the Rocks. I found a meteorite. Yeah, right. It's like the remnants of the memories that are existing in nature. When we start looking for them, we see them SM Sitting on Lake Vermilion up northern Minnesota. Just watched two Cardinals on my deck.
I saw a, a a cardinal yesterday and I had to stare at it because it was not who are the. Who are the non colorful one or the are the females. The, the ones who are not red, red, red but are a little bit more speckled and gray and brown and red. It was sitting so still on the fence and it was just sitting there staring in my backyard yesterday. Smzab says one year anniversary since dad died. Five month anniversary since mom and their 66th wedding anniversary. Smzob's I love that, right? I love how our people show up in moments through energies and beings.
And like today in the Cardinals. Send me some love. Smzabs. The witness sending Willie Nelson. Oh my gosh. I'm gonna be seeing Willie Nelson next month at Farm A in Minnesota. I. Willie is one of two people on my list of artists that I really, really want to see that I haven't seen yet. So I get to check off Willy next, next next month. And yes, always appropriate the witness to go ahead and send and share the things that, that, that result or that resonate in moments. Witness says sometimes you have to grieve people who are still living.
Yes, yes, yes you do. The things we grieve are not things that have. That have left but things or things that have left us or that we've needed to walk away from sometimes. We're the, we're the one who leaves. Right. With great purpose. Yes. Thank you. The more diversely colored and, and unique female Cardinals was sitting with me yesterday. Yes. The witness Willie is amazing and he's going to have like his, his lineup of artists is, is pretty amazing. So I'm excited to see him outside at the football stadium where the Minnesota Gophers play.
Okay everybody, I'll go ahead and go back to the chorus one more time of, of closer to fine as we play out. I'll see y' all tomorrow morning. Have a great day, y'. All. We'll talk to you soon. To the children that drink from the fountains to these questions Point me in a crooked line everybody.
