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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. Ah.

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My mind is cloudy. It wants to create reasons and seasons.

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I've reached that age where people wander off. We aren't lost.

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We just have the strength to say I think I'm tired,

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which I find interesting because in the earlier chapters of

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our nation's history, old usually meant you were thirty five plus.

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In fact, in eighteen sixty most men and women barely

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made it to thirty nine years in age. Oh my,

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oh my, I do remember that year of my life.

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I was just getting started. A huge amount of energy

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blew onto my paths of choice, and every level of

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play that I was invited to found amazing success. I

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loved being in my forties. I was truly beginning to

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understand what living in the present is all about. Activating

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it though whoo. That journey to get there came with

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high expectations, without judgment, and then the world changed on

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September eleventh, two thousand and one. It's all documented in

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my daily writing from the age of thirty two to

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where I presently stand at sixty one. Hey, sero, this

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is the daily Mess, a chronological walkthrough in everyday world.

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I am that daily writer to take simple thoughts and

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see where they can be planted. Because once we plant

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a thought inside the soils of the everyday life, we

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begin to see life in places that were once bare.

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If I could just challenge you or coax you to

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put words on a page, it serves the future with

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an opportunity of experience, and it's that experience that feeds

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what is to become our new tomorrow. This is the

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daily Mess. I don't know anyone else who has written

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daily for nearly three decades. I don't do it out

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of conceit or a need to tell a story. It's

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just how I breathe. Things are endlessly moving through me,

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and the goal is to remove the stones that are

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blocking the stream from reaching outward to an unseen ocean.

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The greatest challenge with being a dedicated morning writer is

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being able to tune out the atmosphere created by others.

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I can't expect anyone to silently sit on the sidelines

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waiting for me to finish writing. Therefore, it's taken years

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to accept the movement and sounds of others while I'm

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lost somewhere between here, there and everywhere. I do know

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other writers, but I've yet to meet a daily expression artist.

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I can't imagine what our conversation would be like. Would

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we actually be physically talking or jotting notes down in

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a hardcover notebook. Daily writers, I know you're there, but

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how come you don't step out into the real world

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and talk about it? You know, podcasting was not created

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by comedians and wanna be radio disc jockeys. It was

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actually created by people who took their thoughts from their

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daily writing and they created blogs. So the bloggers took

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their writing and said I want it to be seen

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as well as heard. So here came vlogging, on YouTube,

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and on this thing called streaming, there were podcasts. They

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were bringing their voice forward to be heard. Which is

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one of the reasons why when I sit down with

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other creative minds, I'll ask them the songwriter that you are,

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is it really a songwriter or is it that inner

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soul that's very much alive in you that just wants

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to find a stage where it can put its messages.

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Who is the writer in you, and why would you

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make a choice not to allow yourself to be the

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daily writer. I get it, you gotta be in the mood.

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I have been challenged for nearly thirty years as too, well,

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what the hell am I going to write about today?

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So it doesn't sound like yesterday or last week? Yesterday

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on the podcast, I said, when you have those moments

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where the pin is just standing there on the page

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and nothing is being written, just ask a question, ask

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any question. Trust me, that inner child, that being on

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the inside, is going to answer the question. But you

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on the outside have got to have the strength to

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keep pushing that writing instrument forward. I get it, but

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it is a very lonely place to be. Even though

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this studio is blessed with nearly thirty years of writing,

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it's all beautifully put in places where you would never

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know that the writing is here because I take great

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care of it. But people that I know, if they

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were to come in here and I said, read whatever

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you want any day you want, what would you like

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to know? Wodn't know where to begin, nor would I

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because although it's on paper, I don't remember, I don't

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know what I actually put on that page, Especially since

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we were talking about September eleventh, two thousand and one.

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I can assume, but I don't know. Now I sound

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like my mother, which is the very reason why I

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picked up writing. I don't want to sound like my mother. Son.

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I don't know, Son, I don't remember. Son changed the

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subject because it's on the pages. If I need to know,

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I can go back. And that's what I'm trying to

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invite you to give Tomorrow something to hold on to.

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