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Speaker 1: Look around you see if you can live without it.

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Creativity it is an addiction, whether we're taking it from

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other people or we're trying to steal it from ourselves.

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Unplugged because we will always say yes to creativity. Totally

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uncut because we all make mistakes, So turn it into

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a tool. This is arrow unplugged stream thinking. It's learning

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how to trust what's in your present the right now.

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To get there requires a lot of practice. One sheet

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of paper every day, Just give yourself ten minutes write

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about whatever is moving through your moment of right now.

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No judgment though, put that little monkey over there to

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the side. Stream thinking sharpens your skills as a listener,

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as a communicator, and as an activator. You've got to

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learn how to trust what is right now. This is

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stream thinking today. We're reading from February eighteenth, twenty twenty three.

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When parts of your life our physical lessons to be

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used later on in life. My wife's most recent hip

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replacement became a moment of thought meeting thought. I share

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a lot of conversations with those that are in their

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senior years, you know, forty five to sixty. I ask

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about the secret. The majority of them reply that life

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doesn't prepare anyone to be really good at health providing,

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which is why my eyes open this week. This is

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one of those lessons, providing care in moments that I'd

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rather be doing something else, setting aside my normal to

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be present in someone else's life in that moment of

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now she was in need, not always wanting, because those

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receiving don't feel so comfortable when it comes to other

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people stepping into their lives. But it's a lesson to

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learn from, to pay attention to, to take note of

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something positive is always swarming around those little moments of negative,

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stepping onto the paths of somebody that you're going to

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take care of for a moment or for the rest

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of their life. My sister Sue and will always be

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remembered as a great caretaker. She took care of my father,

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my mother, and my brother Teddy, but I often wonder

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who was there for her when she was in trouble.

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My sister, as that caretaker, was extremely loving and giving,

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but when she became ill, she wanted nobody around her.

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She didn't want to be taken care of. It was

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her life the way she wanted to live it. I

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can't help but wonder what was she thinking? Was she

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just ready to grow to be with mom, Dad and Teddy,

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to be in a place where it's like I've given

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enough and I don't want to burden somebody else. I've

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talked to many caretakers, very close friends in radio. They

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fought the fight. They proved to be strong in moments

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where they assumed they were weak. They made their way

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through that storm. And when the caretaking was over, their

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heart's hurt. Where was that person that they became so

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close to? Where was the daily ritual? They changed their

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life to be a caretaker. Now they have to change

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their life back. Most of them don't make it back

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to where they once were. Their lives change, their careers

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go a different direction. They start to look at life

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in a different light. The physical lessons of life. What

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are you learning? What are you being prepared for? A

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simple hip replacement for my wife opened my eyes, creating

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thought for other thoughts. To share a conversation with the seniors.

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I asked them, what is the secret. There is no secret.

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You just know when you're called to take care of

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I'm marrow and that's stream thinking.