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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 we all make mistakes.

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

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There you are right there. Look at yourself. If there's

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a mirror around you, look at yourself, because there you are,

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be present in that moment of Oh, my eyes are

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looking into this mirror and there I am. My hair

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may not be perfect, your eye makeup maybe a little

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bit too much today, but man, look at that person

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looking back at you in the mirror. Oh, look at

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that person. Amazing. You know what You've been waking up

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with that person for how long? I know? Sometimes it

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can be rough, but other times it's like I like

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this person. It's not easy, it's a challenge, it's questioning.

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But there you are in this moment of now you

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in that mirror. Oh, look at those eyes. Look at

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those eyes. Hey, Saro, this is the choice. This is

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what I was writing while the sun was waking up

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on a brilliant new day. Today we are reading from

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June thirtieth, twenty twenty three. Man, my first steps out

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into the forest today, Oh my god. We were greeted

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by three amazingly beautiful deer, two dough, and a fawn

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that I swear it has got to be anywhere between

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two and three days old, only because I've been a

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part of this for since nineteen ninety two and we've

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had many fawn and I can tell by the way

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that that fawn was walking this morning. It was like,

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Oh my god, you're just a baby baby. This forest,

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with all of its wild life. I don't know if

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it's because Jazzy and I spend so much time walking

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through the forest, but none of these beautiful creations run

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away from us. They just stand there. Hi, human, Hey, Jazzy,

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what you guys doing. Good morning, you guys just waking

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up all that's awesome, Welcome to a brand new day.

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This is long before I even rune, and these animals

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are speaking to us. It's as if we all agreed

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to belong to the same kingdom. I do remember my

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earliest years inside this collection of trees. Oh my god,

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they were so unhealthy. In nineteen ninety two, there were

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more limbs on the ground than standing trunks. It took

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me about maybe five years later to finally hear something

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inside my heart, Dude, you've got to replenish the soil,

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and we did with seventeen hundred seedlings, seedlings that were

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barely three to six inches long. I didn't know what

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I was doing. I just hurt in my heart. Dude,

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replenish the soil. Never once did I ever think that

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it would serve as an invitation for all wildlife to return.

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And it's been documented within these daily stories with high

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hopes that other writers will one day visit this very

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forest to feel the same inner and inspiration. There is

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something in this soil that speaks out, and right now,

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as far as I know, I'm the only writer that's

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talking about it. I have a neighbor next door. She's

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a creative mind, but she never speaks of the soil

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the way that I do. What is it about? A

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collection of trees and rocks? Native American spirituality will tell

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you they are the greatest storytellers of all time. Which

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is why I spend so much time sitting next to

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a rock, which is why in my front yard it

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doesn't look like a home depot Low's front yard. It

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looks like a mountainside with its rocks, with its trees.

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Because it's my job as the person owning this land

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right now to create the stories they've got them. All

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I'm doing is I'm providing this land to say, hey, look,

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come and see what we're about to share. My very

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first few steps into the forest this morning, three deer,

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two dough, and a fawn that's maybe two or three

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days old. Whoa, the day just started. So what does

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any of this have to do with you? Right It's like, oh,

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this dude has a forest. It's an inner city forest

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that he's been taking care of since nineteen ninety two.

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Big whoop dee doo. What I'm trying to share with

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you is that when you participate with the growing process

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of other living things, you begin to recognize a lot

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of things that come with those living things, And in

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those moments of now, you realize that you're a piece

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of the story, but you're not the entire story. Every

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day I bump into people who are just frumpy, they're tired,

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they don't want to be here, and it's like, have

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you planted a seed anywhere? You don't have to do

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seventeen hundred seed. I'm just asking, have you planted a

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seed a thought that can grow inside the heart of

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another person? Participating with the process of growing is so

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valuable to your mind, body, soul, and self. Take the

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time to learn what you can put into the soil,

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and when that soil begins to grow things that you

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couldn't see before, all of a sudden, you do have

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reason to say good morning. I'm rrow, and that's what

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I was writing while the sun was waking up on

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a brilliant new day.