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.
Here we are a new day of writing, creating, setting free.
I talk with so many people around the world about
their art and about that moment of relinquishing. Some like
to laugh it off, while others embrace the thought. Once
something has been turned over to the receiver, the next
step is to find your way back to another day
of creative expression. Now, so many around me admit of
their struggles in the way of keeping their art close
to their heart. They enjoy the work and the energy
required to fulfill the vision, but to put it in
front of an outsider is in a journey worth talking
about or taking. They fear judgment. We all do. It's
part of the process of setting art free, but not
everybody is going to be warmed up and loving about it.
People judge as a way to fit in. Forming opinions
of your own art is extremely easy to talk about
by loving it or avoiding its presence. Art in your life.
Do you set it free? Or is it in the
box up there in the attic that someone is going
to find after you've passed, and then we're going to
assume what the history of that art is. Hey, Sara,
this is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through an
everyday world. I am a daily writer thoughts. There's so
much in thoughts. Sometimes they're good, sometimes not so good.
Sometimes they inspire. Other times, Woh, get a shovel, we're
digging a hole. This is the daily Mess. The tree
next door unexpectedly fell. It's one of those moments. Whether
were no signals, no signs of weakness. The thirty foot
trunk with its limbs have been called to the ground.
For a few months. I've been hearing this creaking sound
in the forest, and I just assumed it was another tree.
There was no wind, there was no storm, The soil
is well taken care of. No other trees were even
leaning on it. You wake up before the sun rise
and you take note that something is missing from the sky,
and it's like woi la, whoa, it's right there on
the forest floor. This forest isn't new to the world.
The majority of these trees were here long before the
big machines and the men with hammers came to create
homes for future families. My wife has been here for
thirty five years. We've seen a lot of trees stumbling
to their knees, most of them deeper into the forest,
not in the front yard, like this one. Lessons to
be learned taking notes while getting prepared for the next
tree that will fall. I learn so much from trees
in the way that they are some of the greatest storytellers.
Trees and rocks, each of them hold their own source
of energy. A tree such as this falls to the
ground like it did last night sometime we don't know.
We didn't even hear the crash, something that large, and
we heard nothing. Maybe it fell because it was time
to feed that part of the world. Now, the neighbor
he'll cut it up and he'll put it back in
the forest, but it won't be in that particular area.
I wish I were a tree, so that I could
stand so tall into the sky and overlook these places
that need the moisture, that need the feeding from what
will become my leaves and then my roots. As I
fall to the ground, what do I learn from a tree?
A tree is very giving. A tree that was planted
grows up into the air, creates an umbrella for shade,
but when it sacrifices its life, it becomes a page,
something that I write on and from that page come
words that I'm sharing. I'm planting a thought in side
of you. Yes, it hurts like hell when these trees
that you've been with for thirty five years fall because
it's over. That's one of the main reasons why I
started a new podcast called Thanks for Being a part
of the Conversation. I'm going to spend the next year
or two going from different places in this forest to
share the story because I've been here so long. Nobody
in the future will have anything to hold until someone says, look,
there's something you should know. And that's my invitation for
you today. Find your place where you go, Hey, you
need to know something, taking your experiences and turning it
into energy. Don't just fall to the forest floor, grow forward.
I'm Eryl, and that's the daily mess.