Listen now (37 min) | Devotion over busyness, mistakes as growth, and cosmic cheer as practice—Chris and Bee reflect on parenting, purpose, and creative life.
On mistakes, recursion, and reclaiming imperfection:
Good stuff! I would add that—in addition to ways to consider mistakes and imperfection after the fact—I sometimes overwhelm myself with anxiety and paralysis anticipating what *might* happen. I'm very skilled at spinning out 398 permutations of "what can go wrong?" 😹 A prescriptive practice I use is to remember the countless times I went down that road in the past. And also to remember that rarely did anything turn out so bad that I couldn't solve it. And that more often than not, all went well. Really well.
Now to find ways to better harness all that worrying energy!
I think I am starting to better grok the intent of what you are trying to accomplish here. It's about fun, talking about relatable experiences, silliness, and also the hard stuff of being human. The Positive Disintegration podcast is superb in its own right, yet I can see how it may tend toward a more "professional" or academic perception for some... that's fine. Cosmic Cheer Squad seems to be about friends sitting around a table (you've actually done that I believe!) talking about whatever is in the air that day. It's the whole spectrum of lived experiences, yet still with the theory as an underlying guide. This is a beautiful thing. Anything to increase ways to access all the collective wisdom you all bring. There are many roads by which to get to Rome... or Madison! 😸
We are very much figuring it out as we go and building a liminal emergence but themes are certainly (positively) fomenting! It's go time, like the urgency of a furtive scribbled journal entry mixed with reflection and real time recognition. Thanks for hanging with us Eric! Let's plan to get you in for a dirt bag chat! I was doing my own scribbling this morning after an early walk under a free range hazy red egg yolk of a sunrise about my favorite maligned words and thought of you... But not just thanks for hanging with us, thanks for seeing us, hearing us and sharing these reflections 🪩 what a beautiful mosaic we're a part of!
Figuring out as you go… that’s my modus operandi! Ironically, to some, I often find the greatest successes by that method. Or have the most fun, at least. Glad to be a supporter… gotta cheer the cheerers!
On mistakes, recursion, and reclaiming imperfection:
Good stuff! I would add that—in addition to ways to consider mistakes and imperfection after the fact—I sometimes overwhelm myself with anxiety and paralysis anticipating what *might* happen. I'm very skilled at spinning out 398 permutations of "what can go wrong?" 😹 A prescriptive practice I use is to remember the countless times I went down that road in the past. And also to remember that rarely did anything turn out so bad that I couldn't solve it. And that more often than not, all went well. Really well.
Now to find ways to better harness all that worrying energy!
I think I am starting to better grok the intent of what you are trying to accomplish here. It's about fun, talking about relatable experiences, silliness, and also the hard stuff of being human. The Positive Disintegration podcast is superb in its own right, yet I can see how it may tend toward a more "professional" or academic perception for some... that's fine. Cosmic Cheer Squad seems to be about friends sitting around a table (you've actually done that I believe!) talking about whatever is in the air that day. It's the whole spectrum of lived experiences, yet still with the theory as an underlying guide. This is a beautiful thing. Anything to increase ways to access all the collective wisdom you all bring. There are many roads by which to get to Rome... or Madison! 😸
We are very much figuring it out as we go and building a liminal emergence but themes are certainly (positively) fomenting! It's go time, like the urgency of a furtive scribbled journal entry mixed with reflection and real time recognition. Thanks for hanging with us Eric! Let's plan to get you in for a dirt bag chat! I was doing my own scribbling this morning after an early walk under a free range hazy red egg yolk of a sunrise about my favorite maligned words and thought of you... But not just thanks for hanging with us, thanks for seeing us, hearing us and sharing these reflections 🪩 what a beautiful mosaic we're a part of!
Figuring out as you go… that’s my modus operandi! Ironically, to some, I often find the greatest successes by that method. Or have the most fun, at least. Glad to be a supporter… gotta cheer the cheerers!