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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 turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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I write in a forest. I go into these collections

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of trees to do nothing but listen. What started at

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the Billygram Library in twenty fifteen in Charlotte, North Carolina

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has evolved into a lifelong commitment and journey. Something is

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always moving through each and every one of us. It's

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our calling. These aren't my words. These are the lyrics

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from Billy's Forest, chapter number three hundred thirty four, September seventeenth,

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twenty twenty two. Sometimes it feels like you're waiting for

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a call from God. Hello, here, I am in the forest.

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Are you there? For a brief moment, the sun rise

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was so bright I could barely see the writing instrument.

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Then everything becomes a shadow. Is that what it felt

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like when Jesus would walk by on the streets of

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his real time world? The energy was physical, the pace

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a slow stroll. What about the people of the Biblical

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times when the spiritual child would walk the streets? Did

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they know that it was that guy? Or was it

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the spoken tongue of those who had already been passed by.

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While they gathered, they must have felt like I'm waiting

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for the call. His only son is nearby. But not

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everyone gets to feel the light. Our minds are occupied.

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The passing of sunlight is every day. We never see

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the other side of the street. In the days of Jesus,

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we only saw him. We only know of the moments

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when the word was spoken. This is heavy. I wrote

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this on September seventeenth, twenty twenty two. Right now we're

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on May nineteenth, twenty twenty three, so almost a year

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has gone by. I would like to know what the

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writer in the forest was feeling that day outside of

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that sun being so bright. And I've been there so

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many times. When I write outside, it's so bad that

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I really physically cannot see the page because it's white

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against sunlight. There's energy that's being caused and created, and

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the effects of it are statements like this. Nobody saw

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the other side of the street when Jesus would walk by.

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I'm not going to turn this into a religious study,

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but it's something to think about those moments when you

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feel this enormous amount of something you don't want to

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explain it, but you want it to continue. And then

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slowly you begin to see what's on the other side

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of the street. Learning to trust those moments of disconnection

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from the reality of your written path is a time

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where we learn. It's a time of embracing the cleansing

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of your heart. He's right back in September of twenty

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twenty two. We are occupied. What is wane you do?

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And are you honest enough to say? You know, maybe

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I need to step back a few more steps. It

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could cost me some money, and it could cost me

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a friendship. But I'm occupied. I'm too much. I can't

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see on the other side of the street. And it's

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not the Holy Spirit in front of me. Everything is

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man made. What is blocking your view from the other

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side of the street? We're occupied, I'm Maril. These are

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not my words. These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest.