Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
There you are right there. Look at yourself. If there's
a mirror around you, look at yourself, because there you are,
be present in that moment of Oh, my eyes are
looking into this mirror and there I am. My hair
may not be perfect, your eye makeup maybe a little
bit too much today, but man, look at that person
looking back at you in the mirror. Oh, look at
that person. Amazing. You know what You've been waking up
with that person for how long? I know? Sometimes it
can be rough, but other times it's like I like
this person. It's not easy, it's a challenge, it's questioning.
But there you are in this moment of now you
in that mirror. Oh, look at those eyes. Look at
those eyes. Hey, Saro, this is the choice. This is
what I was writing while the sun was waking up
on a brilliant new day. Today we are reading from
June thirtieth, twenty twenty three. Man, my first steps out
into the forest today, Oh my god. We were greeted
by three amazingly beautiful deer, two dough, and a fawn
that I swear it has got to be anywhere between
two and three days old, only because I've been a
part of this for since nineteen ninety two and we've
had many fawn and I can tell by the way
that that fawn was walking this morning. It was like,
Oh my god, you're just a baby baby. This forest,
with all of its wild life. I don't know if
it's because Jazzy and I spend so much time walking
through the forest, but none of these beautiful creations run
away from us. They just stand there. Hi, human, Hey, Jazzy,
what you guys doing. Good morning, you guys just waking
up all that's awesome, Welcome to a brand new day.
This is long before I even rune, and these animals
are speaking to us. It's as if we all agreed
to belong to the same kingdom. I do remember my
earliest years inside this collection of trees. Oh my god,
they were so unhealthy. In nineteen ninety two, there were
more limbs on the ground than standing trunks. It took
me about maybe five years later to finally hear something
inside my heart, Dude, you've got to replenish the soil,
and we did with seventeen hundred seedlings, seedlings that were
barely three to six inches long. I didn't know what
I was doing. I just hurt in my heart. Dude,
replenish the soil. Never once did I ever think that
it would serve as an invitation for all wildlife to return.
And it's been documented within these daily stories with high
hopes that other writers will one day visit this very
forest to feel the same inner and inspiration. There is
something in this soil that speaks out, and right now,
as far as I know, I'm the only writer that's
talking about it. I have a neighbor next door. She's
a creative mind, but she never speaks of the soil
the way that I do. What is it about? A
collection of trees and rocks? Native American spirituality will tell
you they are the greatest storytellers of all time. Which
is why I spend so much time sitting next to
a rock, which is why in my front yard it
doesn't look like a home depot Low's front yard. It
looks like a mountainside with its rocks, with its trees.
Because it's my job as the person owning this land
right now to create the stories they've got them. All
I'm doing is I'm providing this land to say, hey, look,
come and see what we're about to share. My very
first few steps into the forest this morning, three deer,
two dough, and a fawn that's maybe two or three
days old. Whoa, the day just started. So what does
any of this have to do with you? Right It's like, oh,
this dude has a forest. It's an inner city forest
that he's been taking care of since nineteen ninety two.
Big whoop dee doo. What I'm trying to share with
you is that when you participate with the growing process
of other living things, you begin to recognize a lot
of things that come with those living things, And in
those moments of now, you realize that you're a piece
of the story, but you're not the entire story. Every
day I bump into people who are just frumpy, they're tired,
they don't want to be here, and it's like, have
you planted a seed anywhere? You don't have to do
seventeen hundred seed. I'm just asking, have you planted a
seed a thought that can grow inside the heart of
another person? Participating with the process of growing is so
valuable to your mind, body, soul, and self. Take the
time to learn what you can put into the soil,
and when that soil begins to grow things that you
couldn't see before, all of a sudden, you do have
reason to say good morning. I'm rrow, and that's what
I was writing while the sun was waking up on
a brilliant new day.