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Speaker 1: Hey, Serrol, I am a daily writer. My first published book,

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One Man's Thy twenty one Thoughts, has earned me only

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one response, Dude, I don't understand what you're saying in

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this book. I can't finish reading it. The book covers

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the daily imprints made for oneenty twenty one days starting

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in August of nineteen ninety seven. It's twenty sixteen, so

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I'm going way back to the original thoughts because I

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believe that every one of us when we write, we're

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writing to our future selves. This is your daily ray

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of light. This time around, we're going to go back

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and put focus on October twenty eighth, nineteen ninety eight.

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The piece is titled When Art Is more than pictures painted.

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A whisper of wind is all I wanted to hold,

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to lift, to soar, to bring to the child the

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motion of flight, like the aimlessly flying butterfly in The

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Blue Jay, leaping into a world so untamed, yet his

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thought A whisper of wind helped him gain the confidence

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to continue on. A dream isn't a whisper of wind,

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nor friend's encouragement and continued support. A whisper of wind

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is that of insight to have to hold, to build up,

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bringing to life a gust or passing storm. For in

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a butterfly's life, as tiny as it seems, the way

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it flies resembles a black and white movie. So strong

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the rain pours, the character's feet wobble from side to side.

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Maybe he too is toying to feel the whisper of

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wind held by the butterfly, the blue jay, the insight

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of holding something incredibly difficult to see, a whisper of wind,

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inspiration and influence, never that of greed. So I close,

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with no whisper of wind to hold, my paint shall dry.

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I'll close this book, then move on to another day.

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I'll stop to view the ice crystals that have grown

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from the first seasonal freeze. Another whisper of wind I

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chose to watch, but never seek. A whisper of wind?

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Will it one day fill the sails of my ship?

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Only I know that answer. Only I have the insight

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I can help guide what's quite difficult to see something

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as simple as a whisper of wind, inspiration and influence,

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never that of greed. You know, the strangest thing about

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this particular piece of writing is that, hey, I don't

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remember writing it, and That is probably one of the

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most difficult things to deal with with being a creative mind,

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because people will always say, hey, I saw this, Hey

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I heard this, Hey I read this, And all you

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can do is accept it in the way of well,

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if you saw it and you compared me to it,

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and you think it's me or it was me, then

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I feel blessed that you even connected my name to it. Now,

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to be connected to it in this moment, it was

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really a moment that I tried to create because it

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was a gift that I was sharing. That's what the

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whisper of wind really is. It is a gift from

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the universe. It is a gift that moves through you,

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that whisper of wind. And we talked about it several times.

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It could be a cloud formation, it could be a gust,

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it could be a storm. The piece of poetry A

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heared on a painting that I had donated to a

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group called Pets Pets. It was auctioned off to help

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her these funds for the elderly and their fuzzy little buddies. Now, surprisingly,

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a sixteen year old girl purchased the painting and poetry.

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She felt that it described exactly the way she felt

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while growing up. She was sixteen years old. The whisper

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of wind was moving through her at the age of sixteen. Now,

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since these years have passed eighteen years since it was written,

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I wonder what she's doing with her life today now

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that she's thirty four. What are the whispers of wind

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that control your life? Or do you put up a

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wind sock and it stops, because when it stops, that

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means it falls. And how many times do you find

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yourself picking yourself up. I'm Ryl, and that's your daily

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ray of light.