Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
I am a poet, one that just happens to write
in a forest. My forest is the Rainbow Forest right
here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. When I enter this
forest or any other collection of trees, I never know
what I'm going to write about. These aren't my words.
These are the lyrics from Rainbow Forest, chapter number three
hundred seventy two, February eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Extremely cold
this new day, yet the forest doesn't seem to feel
the same way. The music bird songs while the sun
is rising, the type of music usually experienced during the
spring months, right before the transition, when migratory birds are
preparing for their long flight home. It's when we listen
the closest. If I were a true member of this
song bird union, I'd get a closer listen as to
what the chatter is all about, Mainly those birds who
don't find enjoyment with the blue jays as they spend
their few weeks of the winter months here in the
southern atmosphere. The wildfinch. They're always present. I call them
my limb leapers, constantly jumping onto a new tree. Do
they ever get lost? Do any of them think of
such human insecurities? I raise pigeons when I was a kid.
I was never worried about them getting lost. A pigeon
is amazingly faithful to their place of living. Birds are
my jazz. My heart is always listening, even while walking
through a forest at twenty nine degrees. The birds in
our life. I don't think there's a place anywhere on
this planet that doesn't have some sort of bird. It
may not fly, chickens don't fly. But I'll tell you what.
As a kid, I would go into that chicken hut
and I would just sit there and listen because there
was always a conversation. Chickens love talking to other chicks.
And then when the rooster comes walking in, it may
get quiet for a couple of seconds, but his courage
and his confidence, he's in control of what is going
on when it comes to the chicken house. Being part
of a forest is a dream come true. So it
doesn't mean that you have to be in a force
in order to feel the atmosphere of everything that's moving
around you. When it comes to the jazz that birds provide,
find your place. Even if you go to YouTube and
just type in bird songs, things will begin to grow
around you. But when you listen to those bird songs
on YouTube, don't look at the picture, close your eyes
and take in the moment. Use that time to put
yourself in a place of not just escape, but basically
of healing, growing, finding newer ways to have an outreach
on your own path. Bird songs give you that place
of peace. It's not always the music on the radio, Spotify,
iHeart iTunes. It's not there where you really will find peace.
Is it a bird's song? I marril. These aren't my words.
These are the lyrics from Rainbow Forest.