Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. Companies like Amazon, even Walmart, they
love the idea that you love other people's creativity because
you're going to continue buying the products that they have available. Unplugged,
because we will always say yes to creativity. Totally uncut,
because we all make mistakes, so turn it into a tool.
This is arrow unplugged. My grandmother used to make this
sound all the time. Mmmmmmmm. That was her way of saying,
I don't know what the hell is going on, but man,
it just doesn't look or smell right. Mm What sort
of sounds do you make that you've picked up along
the way. I know that even while I'm yawning, I
feel like my Grandma Dobrans is right here with me,
because I don't just yawn, I go you feel that, Yeah,
that's my Grandma Doughbrans. She's making her way through my life.
It's kind of interesting how your past becomes your present.
But what if your past is clouded and overtaken by
things that you shouldn't have done? How do you keep
it from gaining access to your present? I write, I'm
a daily writer. I spill this stuff onto a page
and walk away, because that's just the way I breathe.
I learned that trick from the artist's way from Julia Cameron,
which is a great place of study. Hey, Sarah, this
is the choice. This is what I was writing while
the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.
Today we're reading from April thirteenth, twenty twenty three. Locating
the space to let it go. We are all all
trying to live that life, locating the space to let
it go. We constantly find ourselves locked in an excuse.
We can't do this because well, something's standing in my
way of the next level of play. I can't do that.
I just can't do that. During the COVID lockdown, my
wife and I were doing something really good. It was
a thing called the Swedish death cleaning. If it has
no value to you or someone in your family, let
it go. We stopped because the trash cans became too full,
too fast. And then just yesterday, this is three years later,
we discovered this thing called the foxhole. Take your excess
weight there, read your world of the mess that you're
leaving behind. So over the next couple of weeks, maybe months,
maybe a year, we're going to be concentrating on thinning
out the collected, which also includes years of radiotapes and
tools which no longer can be used in the industry
between us. You know what it's like to let something
of personal value go. You get emotional that connection has
to be broken. Every home has too much to hold.
Then one day a family member or a friend is
stuck cleaning up where you once stood up. It's just
not fair to the future. Grandma Dobrince locating a space
to let it go. That's interesting that I bring up
Gramma Dobrance because I do remember going into her home
after her transition, and I do remember my mother discovering
things that she had no idea that her mother had,
and it was a moment where she goes, I don't
know why they kept all of this, and I wonder
if that's not going to happen in the household that
my family has in Montana, now that my father and
my mother have transitioned, has anybody gone into their closets,
into their crawl spaces, and have they said, oh my god,
what were they thinking? Why did they save this? The
one person that was protecting it was my sister, who
just recently passed about a month ago. So now I
wonder her son's will they be the ones that walk
into that area that is drastically cluttered with history of
collected everything. Because I know my mom and my father
collected everything where I stand right now, and I know
where you stand right now. We've got to create space
because if we don't create space, we know in our
hearts through experience, that someone's going to say what I
had no idea. And see the thing is, you're not
going to be there to defend yourself. One day, a
family member or friend is going to be stuck cleaning
up where you once stood up. It's not fair. Begin
a journey. The Swedish death cleaning is very real. I
don't like the title. I don't, but that's what it's called.
Look it up, begin the process of cleaning up your mess.
I'm Marrow and that's what I was writing while the
sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.