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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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Who I had so many dreams about my mother last night.

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I call them visitations. In a few of them, I

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was actually in her kitchen, but I never saw my mother.

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It was her presence of knowing that she was nearby

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that gave me plenty of shelter. Now today being September twentieth,

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her birthday was once September twenty fourth. So the subconscious

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mind keeps our outside selves in touch with the stories

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and the experiences that we've lived without being poisoned by

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this need to always live in the past. It's just

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a little tap tap tap on the heart, or a nudge, nudge,

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nudge on the soul. Hey you hey, just saying the

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reply should always be thank you, then move on, because

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staying in your past is when we all get lost.

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All things now become compared to what we thought were

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the better times, to which I always ask, were they

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really the better times? Mean? Look at what we've got

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today with technology and other items that have made our

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lives so much easier, especially when it comes to that

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annual trip to the dentist or that physical you had

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to have at the doctor's office the other day. You

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remember the old days when those physicals involved more work.

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Look forward to looking outward, Hey, zerow. This is the

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daily Mess, a chronological walk through an everyday world. I

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am a daily writer, a silent wolf. I sit beneath

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the brush of a tree and I just watch life.

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I observe, I study, I take tons of notes, and

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then we talk about it. This is the daily mess.

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The dress code in our lawmakers' quarters has been lowered.

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It's no longer about wearing a suit and tie. I mean,

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I can't complain because in everything that I've done in radio,

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I've never been enforced to wear a suit and tie.

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But I do wonder about the image of the US

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government and what will it look like to the rest

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of the world if they just keep showing up in

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gym shorts. I do admit that when I do dress

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up and look professional, the mental attitude is much different

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than when I'm wearing a pair of what Mom used

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to call play clothes. I've done some research here, and

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that research shows that wearing a suit and tie makes

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us feel more confident. It helps us become better negotiators

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and an abstract thinker. We don't need to identify the

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lawmakers that are breaking the laws of fashion. We've developed

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a society that's made it okay to support all people

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with an open mind. Just let our children and our

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adults now be themselves. Now, I'm not complaining because I'm

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that guy whose hair is beyond his shoulders, but I

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can't imagine how many people behind me are whispering. I

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just wish he would grow up. It's who we are.

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Let us be us. But at the same time, if

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we're going to be us, then I believe that other

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people have the right to judge us. We don't have

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to fit into their style, but they do have the

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right to have an opinion as to look at this

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guy with long hair and what kind of assured is

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that it's not even tucked in. What kind of a

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look are you trying to present here, dude. Maybe it's

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because I've grown up looking at lawmakers looking good, and

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now that they can dress down, it's like, huh, I'm

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not seeing you as one of us, even with a

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suit and tie. You were never really one of us.

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You were one of them. But when you dress down,

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it's like, uh, it just doesn't look right. And there's

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a big chance, big chance that because they've lowered the

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bar when it comes to the dress code in our

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US government. I'll bet you in the next couple of

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weeks or a month, my hair comes off because if

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that's what we look like as Americans, those making our laws.

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I don't like that look. Therefore, maybe I'm not happy

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with my look. I bet I get it cut off.

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I'm arrow, and that's the daily mess.