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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 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. Something is always

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moving through us. It's a 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 and thirty five, September twenty fourth, twenty twenty two,

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of forty eight degree morning, shocking to the human because

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I didn't have enough days to prepare for this sudden change.

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I'm not sure that trees with their leaves did as well.

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There's an amazing array of green blanketing the beauty of

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falls arrival. The shadows seem longer, the sun coming at

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us from a different angle. I study nature's behavior in

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the forest like that of a farmer preparing for harvest.

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One of the things that's sticking out is how thick

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the deer coats are. It's so early in the season,

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yet the deer looks so full and plump. The squirrels,

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on the other hand, aren't going crazy with their daily collecting.

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They seem to be amazingly playful, with their bushy tails

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flying through the skies. They leap from limb to limb

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like dangerous dare devils jumping school buses. A time to watch.

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Every moment is worth listening to. The story is written

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long before the rest of us catch up. I want

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to be like nature, to be ready before the change.

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I don't know if that's always one of the best

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places to be. I don't want to argue with the

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writer of September twenty four, twenty twenty two. But if

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we put a lot of energy into preparing for change

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and the change does not occur, you're not getting that

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time back. Maybe it's because I am a full believer

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in living in what is right now, the present. But

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to plan for change, my mother, you used to tell

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us all the time, save it for a rainy day,

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save it for a rainy day. Now I will go

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with her thoughts on that, because my saving it back

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in the nineteen eighties is helping me out today in

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twenty twenty three. But to prepare for change when we

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don't have any type of control over the change. You

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can be ready for something that might happen, but you

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can't invest the full one hundred percent. I had a

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big movie promotion last night, I mean big. We were

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in two theaters. We were expecting an overflow of people.

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I had to move through the mental changes of what

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if too many people show up? How are we going

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to handle angry people? It didn't happen. Therefore, all of

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that energy that was required to get ready for that

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change was really a waste of time. Putting yourself in

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the moment of now is an idea that really does

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grow forward because this is who I am. We accept

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where we are, You are where you are. I don't

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know why you showed up on this podcast, but I'm grateful. Now,

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let's grow from it. Let's plant seeds in other areas

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so that others can learn from what's being shared. It

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didn't come to me like, oh, you better be listening

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to me. No. Obviously, before I got here, things had

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to happen. Methods were put into motion. Accepting change in

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your right now is your best step forward. I'm maryl.

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