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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, that's not a negative. That's an understanding,

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that's a relationship that is building the platform for what's

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going to make you greater today as well as tomorrow

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and the days that follow. Understanding that creativity is a

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huge part of your life. But are you listening to it? Unplugged?

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Because we will always say yes to creativity, totally uncut

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because we all make mistakes. So turn it into a tool.

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This is arrow unplugged. I write in a forest. I

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go there to listen. What started at the Billy Graham

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Library in May of twenty fifteen in Charlotte, North Carolina

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has evolved into a lifelong commitment and journey. Something is

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moving through each and every one of us. It's our calling.

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

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August twenty seventh, twenty twenty two. The depth of what

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I do as a poet is never truly explored as

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a creative spirit. Most agree that we only take it

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so far when we're tired alone and without it inspires

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us to write even more inside this mess, a different time,

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a different day. This force, that which I live within

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isn't particular. This is why I love wandering through a

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collection of trees. There's always something here that creates harmony.

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Yet if you look closely, it's as if the entire

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presence that which nature has designed could be featured on

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the TV show Hoarders. There's endless amounts of everything in

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this forest, and somehow, some way, you find yourself fitting in.

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This forest has history, so much of it is hidden

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away to be discovered a different day. I do believe

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in its energy, and I believe it's coming from a

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different time. I'm so locked in on the fourteen hundreds.

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It's what I feel from the identity of the meuse,

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a creator, a mentor to a poet. Those places that

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keep pulling you back. It doesn't have to be a forest.

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It can be a city. You keep going back to

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a place, you feel something there, but you can't identify

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why you're there. Some people will say, well, it's because

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I feel great when I'm here. Why what is it

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about this area? Is it? Amuse? Have you lived this

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life before? Why is it? This one place on the

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map has your attention, and more importantly, it has your love.

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I will never understand why a DJ a radio personality

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in Billings Montana, made his way clear across the country

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to Charlotte, North Carolina. The only answer I have ever

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held is this forest. This forest called me to this place,

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a place where I have written several different published books,

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a place where I have been with my fuzzy little

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babies all the way to their final breath. This forest.

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I don't know why, but this isn't about me chasing

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the leaves on a tree. This is about you and

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your place. That moment where you go I'm here, I'm

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here where you receive and what you receive is given

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to somebody else. It's the energy moving through you because

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that place, your place, is giving something in a way

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of love, compassion, support, hope, faith, trust. Identify that place

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and make it known not just to your heart, but

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let it grow beyond you. I'm Errold. These are not

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my words. These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest.