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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 let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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We're all guilty of it. There are many times in

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our weekly life that we think that we're funny, that

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we are the attraction of that moment, and we've got

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a funny line to bring to the conversation, and then

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it falls flat. It's like, oh no, instead of making

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someone laugh, I've now offended someone. I have somebody at

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my essential job, a coworker that likes to make a

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lot of sounds because he thinks it's funny. From out

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of nowhere, You'll hear, stop, you're hurting me, and I'm going, what,

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what the And then you'll catch him laughing, and it's like, dude,

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you can't say stuff like that in public. How you're

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hurting me? Because someone's going to believe that, but he

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thinks it's funny. How do you react when somebody does

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something around you where all of a sudden, the air

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in your lungs is gone and you're going, I gotta breathe.

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I can't believe you said that. Okay, so it took

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my mind off from the pressures of the everyday life.

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But you can't say that in public, but they do,

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and we do even in our own moments where we

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think we were about ready to slip something inside and

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someone says that wasn't funny. So the way that I

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try to get around that is to be the listener first,

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to be able to find out what's going on in

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the conversation, and if if I have something funny, or

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maybe I assume I've got something funny, the first thing

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that I'll do is I set myself up with I

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think I'm gonna cross the line. Is everybody okay with that?

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Which we never did in terrestrial radio? Oh hell no.

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What we did was there was a door that separated

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the sales department and the business side of radio, and

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we would tell people, when you open that door and

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you come on this side, we're gonna say anything and

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everything and you will be offended. Now try that in

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the real world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hate zero. This

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is choice. This is what I was writing while the

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sun was waking up on a brilliant new day. Today

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we're reading from August twenty fifth, twenty twenty three, in

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prayer this morning, I spoke of how we keep our

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truer stories about life and all the experiences that we

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go through locked up inside a hope chest. I sat

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there for the longest time thinking, I don't think I

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used the right word. I wanted to make sure that

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I was using the right box. So I went to

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dictionary dot com and they describe a hope chest as

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being a place where women prepared for marriage by collecting blankets, clothing,

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and other household items. My mother had a hope chest.

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It was made of cedar. It always smelled so incredibly beautiful,

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and yes, there were blankets in there. There were old

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photographs in there. There was so much stuff that my

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mother put in there that I always wondered, Mom, are

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you without hope? And she would never answer that question.

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But I do know that in this moment of now,

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when I spoke of a hope chest in that I

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use the wrong box. And then I stepped back and went, well,

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what kind of a box are we storing things in?

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Because we're keeping our truer experiences away from the real world,

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we're hiding behind the selfies that we're posting on social media.

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What box should I be talking about here, And sometimes

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I wonder if it's just one of those gigantic crates

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that you buy at Walmart plastic, put a lid on it,

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and now throw the box away, put it someplace where

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somebody will find it one day. And when they do,

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I often wonder what do they think when they open

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that box? And will it even stink. One of the

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things that I agreed with myself on way back in

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the early part of my daily writing, I told myself,

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with your writing, you will not stuff it in a box.

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You will be open with your writing, because I believe

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that being an open writer creates a conversation. If all

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my emotions are being tossed onto a page and then

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thrown into a box, how do you expect to have

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a real conversation with me if I can't come out

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and say hey, in my writing today, I spoke about

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that very subject, and I did some research and this

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is this is what I found out. It creates conversation. Now,

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sometimes people don't agree with the conversations that I bring up,

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and they sit there and give me that odd ball look.

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But I go, hey, hey, hey, I think it's cool

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that you don't agree with what's going on. Because that's

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what having a human connection is all about. We don't

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have to fight about it, we don't have to agree

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with it. All we have to do is just have

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some sort of collaboration of thought. This way I can

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hear your side of the story. I've got my side

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of the story, and somewhere in the middle it all works.

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So I always ask people when you write, don't hide.

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I call that a writer hider. And the reason being

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is because some of the greatest stories ever to be

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told are inside those boxes locked up in my mother's

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hope chest. She's hoping that one day she'll be able

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to use it. Don't put things in a box. Be

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open with your conversation. We're doing the Swedish death cleaning.

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That means we're going through this house and anything in

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everything that other members of our family do not want.

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Guess who gets it, We donate it, or we take

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it to the dump. Leading a life of openness is

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very scary, but it's refreshing to have a conversation. I'm

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Marrow and that's what I was writing while the sun

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was waking up on a brilliant new day.