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

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yes to creativity, totally uncued 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 in there to

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do nothing but listen. What started at the Billigram Library

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in twenty fifteen, right here in Charlotte, North Carolina, has

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evolved into a lifelong commitment and journey. There's always something

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

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These are my words. These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest,

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chapter number three hundred thirty three, September tenth, twenty twenty two.

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The sound of rain in this forest. So often we

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use YouTube to create the peaceful behavior of falling water.

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It helps us sleep or find this peace of mind.

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But this new day, we're blessed with real rain. Jokingly,

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I've said, nature has started its process of washing away

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the summer's graffiti. In a matter of weeks, all that

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was once green will become gold, red, brown, and other

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colors not yet named. The passing of time requires us

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to accept the rain. For all things cannot live beyond

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their unspoken lifetime. There's just something special within the sounds

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of that gentle rain as it brings its place and

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purpose into play. It's almost like a whisper from heaven.

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There shall be peace, for in this moment of now

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your roots will gather the energy while the sun waits

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to warm your hearty soul so deep. And it's the

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rain that has brought such a thought here. Allow it

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to be heard in everything that you do. As a child,

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I did not like the rain, especially thunderstorms, growing up

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in the state of Montana. Just didn't like it. I

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was afraid of it. All I saw as a child

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were the floods from the Yellowstone River that goes through Billings, Montana.

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When it rained, the river would flood. So therefore I

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feared that the floods would eventually reach my home, and

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during those summertime thunderstorms, I would run to my bedroom

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and hide with earphones on my head and John Denver

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plane in my ears. I always believe that was the

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reason why I chose to get into radio, because once

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these earphones go on, I disappear from the reality of

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what is now. But as I've grown older, I accept

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the sounds of rain because I believe it's a language

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all its own. The question is do you understand the

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sound of rain? What do you feel in those moments

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of a downpour versus just a sprinkle. There's something in

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the moment of now when water does fall from the sky.

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I watch as the trees expand, their branches and their leaves.

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Deer don't run away. I see the hawk flying when

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there's rain. There's something very magical or spiritual when it

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begins to rain, and for it to bring calm to

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our hearts so that we can sleep at night. That's

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amazing positive energy. It's almost like Mother Nature is saying, shhh,

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be calm, be filled with rest. Allow me to speak

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to your silences. I Maril, these are not my words.

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These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest.