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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 am a poet, one that just happens to write

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in a forest. My forest is the Rainbow Forest right

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here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. When I enter this

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forest or any other collection of trees, I never know

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what I'm going to write about. These aren't my words.

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These are the lyrics from Rainbow Forest, chapter number three

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hundred seventy two, February eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Extremely cold

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this new day, yet the forest doesn't seem to feel

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the same way. The music bird songs while the sun

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is rising, the type of music usually experienced during the

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spring months, right before the transition, when migratory birds are

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preparing for their long flight home. It's when we listen

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the closest. If I were a true member of this

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song bird union, I'd get a closer listen as to

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what the chatter is all about, Mainly those birds who

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don't find enjoyment with the blue jays as they spend

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their few weeks of the winter months here in the

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southern atmosphere. The wildfinch. They're always present. I call them

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my limb leapers, constantly jumping onto a new tree. Do

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they ever get lost? Do any of them think of

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such human insecurities? I raise pigeons when I was a kid.

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I was never worried about them getting lost. A pigeon

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is amazingly faithful to their place of living. Birds are

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my jazz. My heart is always listening, even while walking

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through a forest at twenty nine degrees. The birds in

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our life. I don't think there's a place anywhere on

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this planet that doesn't have some sort of bird. It

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may not fly, chickens don't fly. But I'll tell you what.

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As a kid, I would go into that chicken hut

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and I would just sit there and listen because there

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was always a conversation. Chickens love talking to other chicks.

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And then when the rooster comes walking in, it may

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get quiet for a couple of seconds, but his courage

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and his confidence, he's in control of what is going

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on when it comes to the chicken house. Being part

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of a forest is a dream come true. So it

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doesn't mean that you have to be in a force

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in order to feel the atmosphere of everything that's moving

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around you. When it comes to the jazz that birds provide,

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find your place. Even if you go to YouTube and

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just type in bird songs, things will begin to grow

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around you. But when you listen to those bird songs

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on YouTube, don't look at the picture, close your eyes

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and take in the moment. Use that time to put

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yourself in a place of not just escape, but basically

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of healing, growing, finding newer ways to have an outreach

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on your own path. Bird songs give you that place

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of peace. It's not always the music on the radio, Spotify,

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iHeart iTunes. It's not there where you really will find peace.

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Is it a bird's song? I marril. These aren't my words.

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These are the lyrics from Rainbow Forest.