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Speaker 1: Creativity. It's 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 think one of the most interesting things about being

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a daily writer isn't always connected to the from out

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of nowhere moments. I'm blessed to share a lot of

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conversations with multiple styles of writers and authors, most right

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because it's their job. It's how they've agreed with family

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and publishers to dedicate a certain amount of their time

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to reach readers. Those from out of nowhere moments lead

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to characters being energized and or created in ways that

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catches the creative mind off guard. Journaling is only different

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because as long as we're alive, the story never ends.

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You don't have to relinquish any characters. And if you

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want to write off a friend or a family member,

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you just stop talking about them. The story does install.

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As a journal writer, you're always open, Your heart is

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always touching a new series of paths. Hey serow, this

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is the daily mess, a chronological walk through in everyday world.

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I am that daily writer. The story continues and being

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a witness of life gives you that opportunity to see

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the story, to see the path, to experience the moments,

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even if they're coming from out of nowhere. It's something

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that you can put on a page. This is the

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daily mess. When people that know you make it known

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that you aren't smiling, have you been in those moments

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well being transparent while in public, I'm known to put

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on display the candy coated plastic bathroom mirror smile. You

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know what I'm talking about. It's not somewhat real, nor

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is it fake. It's just there. It's part of what

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we call in radio the nervous laugh. You know, those

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people that laugh or smile when really nobody else is

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doing it with them. I explained to the person that

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I was currently caught up without a smile because my

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mind was in two completely different places on making sure

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that I got the right lottery tickets for them, and

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I had a tip bill full of money in an

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open space behind me. I didn't want someone to sneak

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up and grab a fist full of dollars. Oh, she understood,

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but I didn't. Rarely do I carry two types of stress,

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such as that the right lottery ticket and a wide

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open till it was very stressful and I was wearing it.

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Those moments where somebody catches you in the reality of

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your realm of what is right now. It's like they

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want to talk about it because it's like, ahha, got you,

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got you. I knew you weren't that happy guy all

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the time. The candy coded plastic bathroom meer smile came

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to me back in the nineteen nineties when I said,

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no matter what I am moving through mentally, the outside

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world cannot see it. Therefore I wrote about the candy

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coded plastic bathroom meer smile. I put it in two

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of my books because I want readers and I want

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people to understand that you don't have to display what

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you feel. One of my pet peeves people who cross

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their arms. You've just closed yourself off to the whole world,

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or you don't make eye contact. You're trying to be liked,

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you're trying to be accepted, but when everything about your

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body language is telling us, ooh, don't go there. The

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thing is is that I am that guy that will

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go there. Last night, at about man, it must have

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been about eight o'clock, we had a woman that was

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very suspicious in the store. I mean very suspicious doing

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those things that pretty much set themselves up as a runner,

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somebody who's going to fill their grocery store cart full

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of groceries and then run for the door. Because we're

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all trained not to do anything. Do not do anything,

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Let them go. Your name is not on the building.

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So we were watching her not only for one hour

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or two, but went into three hours. And I was

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about ready to leave at ten pm and I said,

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wait a second, we're doing this all wrong. I've got

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to go get in a conversation. I got to know

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what is going on here, because we shut off one

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side of the store and the other side had the guard,

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so he was the one that is trained to do

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what he was supposed to do. And in that moment

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of now, I said, I've got to go get engaged

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in a conversation, because in my training that's what we're told,

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get into a conversation and then guide them to a register.

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I heard one of the most beautiful stories by going

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up and having that conversation. My thoughts were, tell me

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something about you. You've got to be kidding. Really, you

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experienced that you become engaged in their journey and within

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about fifteen minutes, all of the groceries were paid for

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and she was on her way. We went from assuming

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that she was going to be a runner because everything

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everything about her, and that card said this person's going

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to run to somebody who paid everything off, and we

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all went home. The candy coated plastic bathroom mirror smile.

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It's going to get you into a situation of peace,

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but there's always going to be somebody that's watching for

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you to frown, and that's where you You've got to

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be able to be ready for truth. I'm Maril, and

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that's the daily mess