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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. The greatest salespeople on the planet

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are very creative minds. Your dentist is a creative spirit.

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Everything around us is brought forward through the act of creativity.

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We want what they've got. Are you willing to share

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with them? Unplugged because we will always say yes to creativity.

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Totally uncut because we all make mistakes, So turn it

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into a tool. This is arrow unplugged. I write in

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a forest. I go to these forests to do nothing

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but listen. What started at the Billygraham Library in two

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thousand and five, right here in Charlotte, North Carolina, has

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evolved into a lifelong commitment and journey. Something is always

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

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These aren't my words. These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest,

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Chapter number three hundred thirty one. August thirtieth, twenty twenty two.

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McDowell Park, Chilli Morning, expanding its reach at what will

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become a ninety degree day, such a play on the

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mind and body. Within a matter of hours, the temperature

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moves up thirty plus degrees, and all living things have

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got to adapt to the atmosphere. We watched a fuzzy

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caterpillar scamper with great speed on the forest floor. They're

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always on the move. With it being so early in

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the day, they must know that in a matter of

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hours that place they're trying to seek could cook them.

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This tiny insect carries with it an amazing array of

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spiritual purpose. A positive transformation is on the way. The

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goal is to use your senses wisely. They are very

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powerful with intuition. The caterpillar has got two antennas that

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are constantly aware of what's nearby or what's approaching. Now,

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as humans, we don't have such tools, but that doesn't

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stop us from physically viewing the world with our two

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eyes locked in on what is real and what is

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being created in our head and heart, that wishful thought,

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that hope. Thank you, mister or missus caterpillar for stopping

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by my day. I love watching animals, being in this

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forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina, or being at McDowell Park.

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I'm blessed with the opportunity to find the time to

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just watch the animals and then to look up their

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spiritual stories to make a connection with their journeys. There's

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so many lessons of life around us, But we choose

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to squish the bugs, we choose to run away from

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the spiders, or if we see a snake. First thing

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most people want to do. They want to chop off

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their head. But it's their world, it's not yours. We

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are the visitors. We think that we're taking over this,

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when in fact they were here long before us. This

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forest is constantly going in its own walk and way.

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I'm just a passer by. I get to document it.

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I'm invited to this place of peace, when in fact

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it may not be. I shared with a friend yesterday.

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We look at these greats in sports, in music, in movies,

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on television. We see them as who we think they are.

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But as I told my friend yesterday, we don't know

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what goes on inside their home. We don't know them,

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just as much as I didn't know the caterpillar. I

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don't know why they were moving so quickly, because usually

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a caterpillar is just whistling away. At least I assume

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maybe that's not true. I've never been inside their home.

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I'm eryl. These are not my words, these are the

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lyrics from Billy's Forest