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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally uncut because well, we all make mistakes.

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So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow

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unplugged stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's in

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your present place of right now now. To get there

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requires some practice. Just want you to paper. Every day

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ten minutes write about whatever is moving through your presence

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of what is right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream

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thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,

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and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is

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right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from

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July twelve, twenty twenty three. I remember getting into a

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deep conversation in the mid nineteen eighties with fellow announcer

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Hunter Herring about what it's like to live in one

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city for eighteen plus years. He did so in Columbia,

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South Carolina, before moving to Charlotte, North Carolina. That always

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blew me away because as a teen I got married,

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moved to a tiny town, then back to Billings for

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three years before racing to Charlotte, where I was determined

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to be gone. After two years of radio airplay. I

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tried several times to leave Norfolk, Virginia, Phoenix, Charleston, even

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a tiny attempt to reach San Francisco. But I could

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never say yes to the markets that were inviting me

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to become part of their business dream. I've been in

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Charlotte for thirty eight years, and people endlessly ask me,

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why are you still here. It's got to be the forest.

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Somewhere along the line. I must have made a pack

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with this collection of trees and all the other living things.

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What creates that moment where you plant your feet and

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everything else begins to grow around you. And the reason

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why I bring this up is because the nation is

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changing right now. People who once had their entire life

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in California, New York, Ohio, even as far away as

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Washington State, they're all criss crossing the forty eight lower states.

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They're all moving into newer areas of growth of those

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family traditions left behind. Now I'm guilty of that because

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my family is up in Montana, and now that I've

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lost my sister, my brother, my parents, there's no reason

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for me to return to the state of Montana because

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I feel like I left that behind thirty eight years ago,

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and there's going to come a time where the transitions

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of life will take me from this beautiful forest in

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South Charlotte, North Carolina. I made a pack to protect

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the trees because I know what they look like in

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nineteen ninety two. I know how beautiful they are right

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now because we replenish the forest with seventeen hundred trees

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and we've taken very good care of this forest. But

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you have to ask that question, what's next. And maybe

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it's because I'm sixty one and I'm on the opposite

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side of life now. I'm not the thirty year old

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dreamer who saw visions in this forest, and now I

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want to know how to protect it. And that's what's

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going on with this nation right now. Are we asking

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the questions of the family tradition? Is it worth protecting?

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Or do we pick up and move? Maybe I'll say

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it this way, or do we pick up and migrate?

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That's a big word, that's a hot word. And is

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it okay to leave your family history behind you? Because

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I'm very guilt