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. Ah.
My mind is cloudy. It wants to create reasons and seasons.
I've reached that age where people wander off. We aren't lost.
We just have the strength to say I think I'm tired,
which I find interesting because in the earlier chapters of
our nation's history, old usually meant you were thirty five plus.
In fact, in eighteen sixty most men and women barely
made it to thirty nine years in age. Oh my,
oh my, I do remember that year of my life.
I was just getting started. A huge amount of energy
blew onto my paths of choice, and every level of
play that I was invited to found amazing success. I
loved being in my forties. I was truly beginning to
understand what living in the present is all about. Activating
it though whoo. That journey to get there came with
high expectations, without judgment, and then the world changed on
September eleventh, two thousand and one. It's all documented in
my daily writing from the age of thirty two to
where I presently stand at sixty one. Hey, sero, this
is the daily Mess, a chronological walkthrough in everyday world.
I am that daily writer to take simple thoughts and
see where they can be planted. Because once we plant
a thought inside the soils of the everyday life, we
begin to see life in places that were once bare.
If I could just challenge you or coax you to
put words on a page, it serves the future with
an opportunity of experience, and it's that experience that feeds
what is to become our new tomorrow. This is the
daily Mess. I don't know anyone else who has written
daily for nearly three decades. I don't do it out
of conceit or a need to tell a story. It's
just how I breathe. Things are endlessly moving through me,
and the goal is to remove the stones that are
blocking the stream from reaching outward to an unseen ocean.
The greatest challenge with being a dedicated morning writer is
being able to tune out the atmosphere created by others.
I can't expect anyone to silently sit on the sidelines
waiting for me to finish writing. Therefore, it's taken years
to accept the movement and sounds of others while I'm
lost somewhere between here, there and everywhere. I do know
other writers, but I've yet to meet a daily expression artist.
I can't imagine what our conversation would be like. Would
we actually be physically talking or jotting notes down in
a hardcover notebook. Daily writers, I know you're there, but
how come you don't step out into the real world
and talk about it? You know, podcasting was not created
by comedians and wanna be radio disc jockeys. It was
actually created by people who took their thoughts from their
daily writing and they created blogs. So the bloggers took
their writing and said I want it to be seen
as well as heard. So here came vlogging, on YouTube,
and on this thing called streaming, there were podcasts. They
were bringing their voice forward to be heard. Which is
one of the reasons why when I sit down with
other creative minds, I'll ask them the songwriter that you are,
is it really a songwriter or is it that inner
soul that's very much alive in you that just wants
to find a stage where it can put its messages.
Who is the writer in you, and why would you
make a choice not to allow yourself to be the
daily writer. I get it, you gotta be in the mood.
I have been challenged for nearly thirty years as too, well,
what the hell am I going to write about today?
So it doesn't sound like yesterday or last week? Yesterday
on the podcast, I said, when you have those moments
where the pin is just standing there on the page
and nothing is being written, just ask a question, ask
any question. Trust me, that inner child, that being on
the inside, is going to answer the question. But you
on the outside have got to have the strength to
keep pushing that writing instrument forward. I get it, but
it is a very lonely place to be. Even though
this studio is blessed with nearly thirty years of writing,
it's all beautifully put in places where you would never
know that the writing is here because I take great
care of it. But people that I know, if they
were to come in here and I said, read whatever
you want any day you want, what would you like
to know? Wodn't know where to begin, nor would I
because although it's on paper, I don't remember, I don't
know what I actually put on that page, Especially since
we were talking about September eleventh, two thousand and one.
I can assume, but I don't know. Now I sound
like my mother, which is the very reason why I
picked up writing. I don't want to sound like my mother. Son.
I don't know, Son, I don't remember. Son changed the
subject because it's on the pages. If I need to know,
I can go back. And that's what I'm trying to
invite you to give Tomorrow something to hold on to.
I'm Marrow, and that's the daily mess.