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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say

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yes to creativity, totally untuted 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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I write in a forest. I go in there to

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just listen. What started at the Billigraham Library in twenty

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fifteen in Charlotte, North Carolina has evolved into a lifelong

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commitment and journey. There's always something moving through each and

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every one of us. It's our calling. These aren't my words.

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These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest, chapter number three

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hundred thirty nine, October twenty fifth, twenty twenty two, Andrew

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Jackson State Park. The smooth, rolling hills that surround this

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tiny lake are decorated in midfall colors amazing reds, vibrant yellows, oranges,

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and browns. This morning, there was no breeze to rough

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up the water. Therefore, the reflection on the surface showcases

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the perfect continuation from the color of the morning sunrise

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to the light layer of fog slow dancing across the surface.

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I swear this is what we want Heaven to look like.

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When we enter, you just walk into the image and

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become part of the page of the continuation. It's peace filled,

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warm with acceptance, and available to include all that you

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come in contact with, no judgment, only the universe with

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its unconditional spirit. It all looks too complicated to envision

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until you allow your entire self to be part of

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the painted rolling hills and morning sunrise, which makes it

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a place to one day return to. But the experience

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will never be the same, nothing like what's been written

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on this page. I think that's one of the greatest

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things about being in love with nature and having this

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force that I'm in right now in South Charlotte, North Carolina,

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is that the morning sunrise provides such an inspiration. When

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I hear of people who wake up at ten eleven

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o'clock in the morning, I go, you miss the best

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part of the day. There was something in the sunrise

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that said, welcome, this is your journey. Page one starts

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right now.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying that those that wake up at ten

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or eleven o'clock in the morning don't have their own

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spiritual enlightening. What I'm saying is is that there's something

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about the sun, the way that it touches the floor

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of the forest, and it grows up the trunk of

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a tree, and it brings amazing colors to the clouds

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that patiently wait above to fall. Witness to the rising

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of a sun tells your soul. I'm part of this.

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I'm accepted. There is no judgment. It's like stepping into heaven,

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the continuation of a story, no judgment. Have you tried

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doing that? Even waking up at ten eleven o'clock in

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the morning, instead of going.

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Speaker 2: Oh God, I overslept, Oh guy, I've gotta be to

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work at one o'clock, Instead of being that person, why

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not step outside for a moment and wish a spider

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good morning? Or maybe like this morning in my forest,

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when I stepped outside for the first time, there was

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a robin that must have been maybe three or four

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feet from me.

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Speaker 1: Hi, robin, have a conversation. Because in the hearts of

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those smaller animals, you don't know if they don't feel fear,

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or if they're just as filled with anxiety like you are.

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They just know they've got to get the damn job done.

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But this one didn't fly away. It looked to me

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and said, good morning, mister poet, Good morning, mister ryder.

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Stepping into the painting without judgment. I'm errow. These aren't

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my words, these are the lyrics from Billy's Forest