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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 had the most bizarre dream last night. It featured

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a tennis court net on the edge of a very

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steep hill. Only half of the tennis court was made

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of regulation clay. The other side was one hundred percent

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natural forest. Listen. I have no clue as to what

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this represents. I did see it as an art piece,

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not to be played on, but rather enjoyed to see

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separated worlds, man's desire to play the game of tennis

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and nature's warm ability to maintain a forest. Picture it.

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Each side of the net requires attention and dedication. The

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lines drawn upon the clay create boundaries, whereas the forest

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remains untamed, especially the hill on the other side. But

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what was the message in the dream? I don't play tennis,

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but my life is blessed with an inner city celebration

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of trees to which we pruned yesterday? Was this dream

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the trees speaking with me? But what did I learn?

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Were they upset that I pruned the trees? And inside

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their stories it was like, Oh, so you want to

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put some beauty in your life, like the human other beings.

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You want us to look great, but you don't want

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us to look natural. Could be? Could be? I just

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know that trees speak. Hey, Sarah, this is the daily Mess,

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a chronological walk through an everyday world. I am a

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daily writer. Stuff like this gets onto the page because

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I'm trying to understand the messages that are constantly moving

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through each and every one of us. You can't deny

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your thoughts. Seventy thousand thoughts enter you every single day.

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Which ones are you paying close attention to? This is

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the daily Mess. John Denver once sang a song called

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some Days are Diamonds, Some Days are stones. Yeah. I

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had to look at the lyrics because my interpretation is

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based on John, or the songwriter, having a shattered heart

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or a shattered dream. Knowing what you once had makes

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you a use to be. Some days are diamonds, some

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days are stone. John sings about the image in the mirror.

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There's always a story in that moment. That image in

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the mirror, no matter how great or bad, happy or sad,

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that image in the mirror knows of your entire journey

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and through choice. It says nothing. But what would you

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like the mirrored image to say to you? What if

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you were granted three mirrored image hugs in one lifetime,

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would you use them up or keep them held back

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for other times of change and challenge. If some days

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are stones, what's inside the stones? Break it open? Lord knows.

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When I was a kid, we would break those rocks

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open to see if there was an egget in there.

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We would want to see the collars on the inside

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of that stone. I was always saddened by the sandstones

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of the Palisades of the Yellowstone, which we called the

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rims in Billings, Montana, because when you broke into the sandstone,

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which are ancient cliffs from ancient oceans, there was nothing inside,

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not even a fossil. So I was always disappointed, not

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in the mountain or the stone, but myself. My recklessness

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destroyed something that has been there for millions of years.

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Some days are diamonds, some days are stones. What if

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the mirrored image could reach out and turn your stone

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into a diamond. I'm Marrowl and that's the daily mess