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Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction. Companies like Amazon, even Walmart, they

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love the idea that you love other people's creativity because

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you're going to continue buying the products that they have available. Unplugged,

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because we will always say yes to creativity. Totally uncut,

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because we all make mistakes, so turn it into a tool.

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This is arrow unplugged. My grandmother used to make this

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sound all the time. Mmmmmmmm. That was her way of saying,

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I don't know what the hell is going on, but man,

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it just doesn't look or smell right. Mm What sort

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of sounds do you make that you've picked up along

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the way. I know that even while I'm yawning, I

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feel like my Grandma Dobrans is right here with me,

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because I don't just yawn, I go you feel that, Yeah,

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that's my Grandma Doughbrans. She's making her way through my life.

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It's kind of interesting how your past becomes your present.

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But what if your past is clouded and overtaken by

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things that you shouldn't have done? How do you keep

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it from gaining access to your present? I write, I'm

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a daily writer. I spill this stuff onto a page

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and walk away, because that's just the way I breathe.

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I learned that trick from the artist's way from Julia Cameron,

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which is a great place of study. Hey, Sarah, this

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is the choice. This is what I was writing while

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the sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.

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Today we're reading from April thirteenth, twenty twenty three. Locating

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the space to let it go. We are all all

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trying to live that life, locating the space to let

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it go. We constantly find ourselves locked in an excuse.

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We can't do this because well, something's standing in my

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way of the next level of play. I can't do that.

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I just can't do that. During the COVID lockdown, my

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wife and I were doing something really good. It was

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a thing called the Swedish death cleaning. If it has

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no value to you or someone in your family, let

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it go. We stopped because the trash cans became too full,

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too fast. And then just yesterday, this is three years later,

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we discovered this thing called the foxhole. Take your excess

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weight there, read your world of the mess that you're

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leaving behind. So over the next couple of weeks, maybe months,

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maybe a year, we're going to be concentrating on thinning

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out the collected, which also includes years of radiotapes and

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tools which no longer can be used in the industry

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between us. You know what it's like to let something

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of personal value go. You get emotional that connection has

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to be broken. Every home has too much to hold.

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Then one day a family member or a friend is

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stuck cleaning up where you once stood up. It's just

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not fair to the future. Grandma Dobrince locating a space

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to let it go. That's interesting that I bring up

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Gramma Dobrance because I do remember going into her home

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after her transition, and I do remember my mother discovering

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things that she had no idea that her mother had,

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and it was a moment where she goes, I don't

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know why they kept all of this, and I wonder

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if that's not going to happen in the household that

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my family has in Montana, now that my father and

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my mother have transitioned, has anybody gone into their closets,

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into their crawl spaces, and have they said, oh my god,

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what were they thinking? Why did they save this? The

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one person that was protecting it was my sister, who

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just recently passed about a month ago. So now I

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wonder her son's will they be the ones that walk

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into that area that is drastically cluttered with history of

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collected everything. Because I know my mom and my father

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collected everything where I stand right now, and I know

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where you stand right now. We've got to create space

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because if we don't create space, we know in our

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hearts through experience, that someone's going to say what I

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had no idea. And see the thing is, you're not

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going to be there to defend yourself. One day, a

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family member or friend is going to be stuck cleaning

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up where you once stood up. It's not fair. Begin

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a journey. The Swedish death cleaning is very real. I

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don't like the title. I don't, but that's what it's called.

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Look it up, begin the process of cleaning up your mess.

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

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sun was waking up on a brilliant new day.