Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, that's not a negative. That's an understanding,
that's a relationship that is building the platform for what's
going to make you greater today as well as tomorrow
and the days that follow. Understanding that creativity is a
huge part of your life. But are you listening to it? 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 write in a forest. I
go there to listen. What started at the Billy Graham
Library in May of twenty fifteen in Charlotte, North Carolina
has evolved into a lifelong commitment and journey. Something is
moving through each and every one of us. It's our calling.
These aren't my words, These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest,
August twenty seventh, twenty twenty two. The depth of what
I do as a poet is never truly explored as
a creative spirit. Most agree that we only take it
so far when we're tired alone and without it inspires
us to write even more inside this mess, a different time,
a different day. This force, that which I live within
isn't particular. This is why I love wandering through a
collection of trees. There's always something here that creates harmony.
Yet if you look closely, it's as if the entire
presence that which nature has designed could be featured on
the TV show Hoarders. There's endless amounts of everything in
this forest, and somehow, some way, you find yourself fitting in.
This forest has history, so much of it is hidden
away to be discovered a different day. I do believe
in its energy, and I believe it's coming from a
different time. I'm so locked in on the fourteen hundreds.
It's what I feel from the identity of the meuse,
a creator, a mentor to a poet. Those places that
keep pulling you back. It doesn't have to be a forest.
It can be a city. You keep going back to
a place, you feel something there, but you can't identify
why you're there. Some people will say, well, it's because
I feel great when I'm here. Why what is it
about this area? Is it? Amuse? Have you lived this
life before? Why is it? This one place on the
map has your attention, and more importantly, it has your love.
I will never understand why a DJ a radio personality
in Billings Montana, made his way clear across the country
to Charlotte, North Carolina. The only answer I have ever
held is this forest. This forest called me to this place,
a place where I have written several different published books,
a place where I have been with my fuzzy little
babies all the way to their final breath. This forest.
I don't know why, but this isn't about me chasing
the leaves on a tree. This is about you and
your place. That moment where you go I'm here, I'm
here where you receive and what you receive is given
to somebody else. It's the energy moving through you because
that place, your place, is giving something in a way
of love, compassion, support, hope, faith, trust. Identify that place
and make it known not just to your heart, but
let it grow beyond you. I'm Errold. These are not
my words. These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest.