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Hey, good morning, Cadre. Good morning from the wonderful plastic flower basket that we've been sitting next to all week with the yellows and the oranges and the. I guess that's a fuchsia. How are we doing? How are we doing on this? It is Friday. I hope you're doing great. Mafy, Andy Mack. I hope you guys are well. But if you're not, that is okay too. And that's not me saying, hey, it's okay that you're not great. Meh, no. But it's me saying it's okay that you're not great because you still have worth.

You still have capacity. You still can do things. Do things that fill your cup. Do things that change the world. So settle in, settle in for this Friday. The sun is shining. I can't figure out if there's like a. I feel like I have a, like, stained glass, like, shining on my skin because I'm, like, colorful. But hey, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. Just rolling out of bed. You know better, Jules. Know just about it. You are rolling out of bed. Chris Fortman.

Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. What's going on today? I'll tell you one thing that's going on in my head, kind of laughing and rolling my eyes because my team, the team that I believe in, the team that's been a part of my heart and soul since the day I was born, the Minnesota Twins went through a rather tumultuous week. Hey, Marchie. Nice to see you. Yesterday was the trade deadline for Major League Baseball. And the twins made 7. 7 trades. Plus earlier this week had another 3 trades.

So 10 people from our 26 person roster are all traded. Normally a team may go ahead and trade one or two players maybe, but we traded 10. You know, when I say I believe that, like, the Twins are my team, My educational background is in sociological theology. So in other words, we. We as beings, we as. As people on this planet, innately believe in stuff, whether that be, you know, God or food or fitness or nature or family or love or. Or music. Right? We. We innately believe in things. And the Twins are one of those entities that.

That. That I always believe in for a couple big reasons. Number one, the Twins always teach me that winning is not a prerequisite for joy. Meaning if the Twins are playing great, that's awesome. If the Twins are not playing great, that's awesome. If they're winning, cool. If they're Losing, that's fine. My joy that comes from this team does not change based on their performance. And I think that's part of the reason why I have the disposition that I have. I'm a pretty durable human being. I can move forward with, with a, with a perspective that's real, but also a perspective that, that, that, that doesn't stop me from enjoying life or living life.

But also because the twins are very important to me. The players and the coaches are all, are all family ish. They're all a part of my belief structure. So whenever anybody retires or gets traded or, or, or leaves the team, there's that little bit of like, oh, and not like, woe is me, but like, ah. Change is happening. On Fridays, we often talk about loss and grief, which innately are byproducts of two things, love and change. Loss and grief are byproducts of love and change. You have to love something in order to grieve it.

So as my friend, you know, Kelly Gross Clogs says, grief is evidence of love, but it's the change element that makes the grief or loss activate, right? So if someone or something dies or leaves or moves closer or further, that change activates the love into a loss or grief response. And sometimes in life we experience lots of it. And when we do know that there's going to be response, more change creates more stuff. And I'll tell you, like, I, my first response at the end of the day when I'm like, oh my gosh, okay, now it's done, was, huh, you know what?

There's probably going to be a Minnesota twin who wins the World Series this year because we now have twins on like eight of the top 10 contenders, minus the Yankees. So it's just kind of funny to go, sweet. We're going to get to watch one of our people who is now existing in a different way experience something different. And there's something cool about that. But all that comes back to the fact that the things we feel that fit in the grief and loss buckets are evidence of love. And on the other side of things moving and changing, there's no gold lining or silver lining or bronze lining or like, oh, there's the, there's the aha.

But I think sometimes when we name what is the pathway to our feeling, it helps us go, okay, now this makes sense. As I love to say, things don't happen to us, they happen through us. It's a way to take a little bit of power in a situation. Now again, there's things that happen, too. Good morning, bird. There are things that happen to us, but if all of a sudden we go, okay, how do I make this something that I can be aware of, that I can put to use, put to perspective? All of a sudden our relationship changes from it being a to us thing to a through us thing.

So if you are a Minnesota Twins fan, a lot happened to us yesterday, yet now we get to go, huh? So what do we do with this, Mel Myers? What do we do with change and the grief and the loss that it creates? Play with it. I will be heading back down to the cities from Shell Lake this evening after our musical theater camp showcase happens this afternoon. And I'll be heading right to the Strike Theater in northeast Minneapolis to premiere a new show with my friend Jason schomer. It's called 50 and it's Jason talking about the life of a Gen Xer entering a new decade, humor and stories and grief and loss.

And I'll be at the piano singing 80s and 90s sitcom theme songs as remnants of Jason's past and story. So if you're looking for something to do tonight and you're in the Minneapolis St. Paul area, go ahead and shoot me a message and I'd love to see you there. Otherwise, I will see you tomorrow morning right back here on Cadre, 8:00am Central Standard Time. Have a good one.