Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because well, we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow
unplugged stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what's in
your present place of right now now. To get there
requires some practice. Just want you to paper. Every day
ten minutes write about whatever is moving through your presence
of what is right now, with absolutely no judgment. Stream
thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,
and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is
right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from
July twelve, twenty twenty three. I remember getting into a
deep conversation in the mid nineteen eighties with fellow announcer
Hunter Herring about what it's like to live in one
city for eighteen plus years. He did so in Columbia,
South Carolina, before moving to Charlotte, North Carolina. That always
blew me away because as a teen I got married,
moved to a tiny town, then back to Billings for
three years before racing to Charlotte, where I was determined
to be gone. After two years of radio airplay. I
tried several times to leave Norfolk, Virginia, Phoenix, Charleston, even
a tiny attempt to reach San Francisco. But I could
never say yes to the markets that were inviting me
to become part of their business dream. I've been in
Charlotte for thirty eight years, and people endlessly ask me,
why are you still here. It's got to be the forest.
Somewhere along the line. I must have made a pack
with this collection of trees and all the other living things.
What creates that moment where you plant your feet and
everything else begins to grow around you. And the reason
why I bring this up is because the nation is
changing right now. People who once had their entire life
in California, New York, Ohio, even as far away as
Washington State, they're all criss crossing the forty eight lower states.
They're all moving into newer areas of growth of those
family traditions left behind. Now I'm guilty of that because
my family is up in Montana, and now that I've
lost my sister, my brother, my parents, there's no reason
for me to return to the state of Montana because
I feel like I left that behind thirty eight years ago,
and there's going to come a time where the transitions
of life will take me from this beautiful forest in
South Charlotte, North Carolina. I made a pack to protect
the trees because I know what they look like in
nineteen ninety two. I know how beautiful they are right
now because we replenish the forest with seventeen hundred trees
and we've taken very good care of this forest. But
you have to ask that question, what's next. And maybe
it's because I'm sixty one and I'm on the opposite
side of life now. I'm not the thirty year old
dreamer who saw visions in this forest, and now I
want to know how to protect it. And that's what's
going on with this nation right now. Are we asking
the questions of the family tradition? Is it worth protecting?
Or do we pick up and move? Maybe I'll say
it this way, or do we pick up and migrate?
That's a big word, that's a hot word. And is
it okay to leave your family history behind you? Because
I'm very guilt