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Speaker 1: Stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in

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your present now. To get there requires practice. Every day

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wants you to paper just ten minutes, write about whatever

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is moving through your presence of what is right now,

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with absolutely no judgment. Stream thinking it sharpens your skills

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as a listener, as a communicator, and as an activator.

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Learning how to trust what is right now. This is

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stream thinking today. We're reading from September twenty fourth, twenty

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twenty three, my mother's birthday. She always seemed to celebrate

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them quietly, amazingly grateful to receive a gift, but please

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don't waste your money on flowers unless I can plant them.

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For several years of enjoyment. Mom believed in all of

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her children in the way of letting us explore we

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weren't wild and out of control rule breakers, because nothing

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was far worse than getting the mom look. You know,

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that calm stare that said you know what you did

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doesn't sit well inside my heart. It's your beautiful birthday

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in heaven and on earth. Mom. So much has been

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written about you inside these pages. It's like planting flowers.

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One of the things that I am learning about our

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everyday chapters are the words that were not using. When

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it comes to describing the journeys, the ups, the downs,

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the arounds, the challenges, and the victories that we had

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with our parents, we just naturally assume everybody knew them. Now.

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The way that I knew my mother was one hundred

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percent different than my other brothers and sisters. We all

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had a great relationship with Mom, but it was never

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the same. I was the creative kid, the kid with

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the long hair that wanted to do weird stuff. He

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was always being creative. He was always doing things that

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other people go ooh, ooh, you're weird. But Mom never

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made me feel weird. She always had that feeling of

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I accept you, I like what you're doing. I don't

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get it, but just keep doing it. All the times

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that I would call her up and say, Mom, I

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just landed this job at this great radio station. Mom,

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you know how radio is? I lost my job. It's

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the ratings. Mom. Mom, Hey, some bad stuff has gone down.

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I want to talk to you about it, but I'm

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not sure you're going to understand it. No, Mom, I'm

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not drunk. My contacts are messed up either. My eyes

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are red because my contacts are messed up mom talk,

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the stories that remain silent unless we share it. I'm

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Errow and that's stream thinking.