Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
I think it's so funny that as I overlook this
forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina, I can see the
lay of the land and all the different dull colors
that have now taken shape into this thing called winter.
But there's no snow on the ground. But what fascinates
me and makes me laugh like a child is how
all the animals have blended into the picture. You really
have to stare into the forest to see the deer,
to see the different birds. But there's the human when
they walk by. They've got bright colors, they're talking loudly,
they're on their smartphones, and it's almost like maybe there
are times that we need to be invisible to kind
of just fit into the atmosphere. Now, to get there
requires what that's the question, that's the exploration. Don't look
at a winter's day as being ooh, it's just a
negative feeling here. Look at it as a celebration of
how can I fit in? Because I think I belong
I belong. Hey, Saro, this is the choice. This is
what I was writing while the sun was waking up
on a brilliant new day. Gifted with another opportunity to
step forward. Isn't that a great feeling? Gifted with another
opportunity to step forward. I mentioned to a co worker
yesterday that I celebrate Christmas every single day. And I
do blame this on having a heart attack at the
age of forty seven in two thousand and nine. You know,
when you're on that table and the doctor has you
looking at that screen and he's putting that stint in,
you're going, you know, I gotta change the way I
think and I live. Well, the coworker didn't buy into
this idea that I celebrate Christmas all day. They said that, no, oh,
when you think like that, that's a celebration of self.
But what you need to do is you need to
serve the lights and festivities to all people who can see.
I complimented them on the showcasing of their belief, but
chose not to say. Everything that you said lives and
shines through my actions and reactions. I don't need bright
lights to shine a positive glow, but it's okay to
have different outlooks and experiences. Sometimes I wish I had
the blinking lights of Wonder on the outside of my
home and all of those blow up statues, you know,
like Sada the Reindeer, penguins and so many others engaging
in the holiday cheer. And then I remind myself, you
do have that in the way that you speak, the
way that you share, the way that you collaborate, the
way that you have compassion for people that are often ignored,
set aside, forgotten. It's all there in the way that
we think Christmas. I have been to celebrate it every day.
If you do it once a year, I'm okay with that.
I'm Marrow And that's what I was writing.