Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
We're all guilty of it. There are many times in
our weekly life that we think that we're funny, that
we are the attraction of that moment, and we've got
a funny line to bring to the conversation, and then
it falls flat. It's like, oh no, instead of making
someone laugh, I've now offended someone. I have somebody at
my essential job, a coworker that likes to make a
lot of sounds because he thinks it's funny. From out
of nowhere, You'll hear, stop, you're hurting me, and I'm going, what,
what the And then you'll catch him laughing, and it's like, dude,
you can't say stuff like that in public. How you're
hurting me? Because someone's going to believe that, but he
thinks it's funny. How do you react when somebody does
something around you where all of a sudden, the air
in your lungs is gone and you're going, I gotta breathe.
I can't believe you said that. Okay, so it took
my mind off from the pressures of the everyday life.
But you can't say that in public, but they do,
and we do even in our own moments where we
think we were about ready to slip something inside and
someone says that wasn't funny. So the way that I
try to get around that is to be the listener first,
to be able to find out what's going on in
the conversation, and if if I have something funny, or
maybe I assume I've got something funny, the first thing
that I'll do is I set myself up with I
think I'm gonna cross the line. Is everybody okay with that?
Which we never did in terrestrial radio? Oh hell no.
What we did was there was a door that separated
the sales department and the business side of radio, and
we would tell people, when you open that door and
you come on this side, we're gonna say anything and
everything and you will be offended. Now try that in
the real world. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, hate zero. This
is choice. This is what I was writing while the
sun was waking up on a brilliant new day. Today
we're reading from August twenty fifth, twenty twenty three, in
prayer this morning, I spoke of how we keep our
truer stories about life and all the experiences that we
go through locked up inside a hope chest. I sat
there for the longest time thinking, I don't think I
used the right word. I wanted to make sure that
I was using the right box. So I went to
dictionary dot com and they describe a hope chest as
being a place where women prepared for marriage by collecting blankets, clothing,
and other household items. My mother had a hope chest.
It was made of cedar. It always smelled so incredibly beautiful,
and yes, there were blankets in there. There were old
photographs in there. There was so much stuff that my
mother put in there that I always wondered, Mom, are
you without hope? And she would never answer that question.
But I do know that in this moment of now,
when I spoke of a hope chest in that I
use the wrong box. And then I stepped back and went, well,
what kind of a box are we storing things in?
Because we're keeping our truer experiences away from the real world,
we're hiding behind the selfies that we're posting on social media.
What box should I be talking about here, And sometimes
I wonder if it's just one of those gigantic crates
that you buy at Walmart plastic, put a lid on it,
and now throw the box away, put it someplace where
somebody will find it one day. And when they do,
I often wonder what do they think when they open
that box? And will it even stink. One of the
things that I agreed with myself on way back in
the early part of my daily writing, I told myself,
with your writing, you will not stuff it in a box.
You will be open with your writing, because I believe
that being an open writer creates a conversation. If all
my emotions are being tossed onto a page and then
thrown into a box, how do you expect to have
a real conversation with me if I can't come out
and say hey, in my writing today, I spoke about
that very subject, and I did some research and this
is this is what I found out. It creates conversation. Now,
sometimes people don't agree with the conversations that I bring up,
and they sit there and give me that odd ball look.
But I go, hey, hey, hey, I think it's cool
that you don't agree with what's going on. Because that's
what having a human connection is all about. We don't
have to fight about it, we don't have to agree
with it. All we have to do is just have
some sort of collaboration of thought. This way I can
hear your side of the story. I've got my side
of the story, and somewhere in the middle it all works.
So I always ask people when you write, don't hide.
I call that a writer hider. And the reason being
is because some of the greatest stories ever to be
told are inside those boxes locked up in my mother's
hope chest. She's hoping that one day she'll be able
to use it. Don't put things in a box. Be
open with your conversation. We're doing the Swedish death cleaning.
That means we're going through this house and anything in
everything that other members of our family do not want.
Guess who gets it, We donate it, or we take
it to the dump. Leading a life of openness is
very scary, but it's refreshing to have a conversation. I'm
Marrow and that's what I was writing while the sun
was waking up on a brilliant new day.