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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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Here we are a new day of writing, creating, setting free.

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I talk with so many people around the world about

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their art and about that moment of relinquishing. Some like

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to laugh it off, while others embrace the thought. Once

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something has been turned over to the receiver, the next

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step is to find your way back to another day

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of creative expression. Now, so many around me admit of

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their struggles in the way of keeping their art close

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to their heart. They enjoy the work and the energy

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required to fulfill the vision, but to put it in

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front of an outsider is in a journey worth talking

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about or taking. They fear judgment. We all do. It's

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part of the process of setting art free, but not

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everybody is going to be warmed up and loving about it.

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People judge as a way to fit in. Forming opinions

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of your own art is extremely easy to talk about

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by loving it or avoiding its presence. Art in your life.

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Do you set it free? Or is it in the

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box up there in the attic that someone is going

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to find after you've passed, and then we're going to

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assume what the history of that art is. Hey, Sara,

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this is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through an

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everyday world. I am a daily writer thoughts. There's so

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much in thoughts. Sometimes they're good, sometimes not so good.

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Sometimes they inspire. Other times, Woh, get a shovel, we're

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digging a hole. This is the daily Mess. The tree

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next door unexpectedly fell. It's one of those moments. Whether

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were no signals, no signs of weakness. The thirty foot

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trunk with its limbs have been called to the ground.

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For a few months. I've been hearing this creaking sound

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in the forest, and I just assumed it was another tree.

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There was no wind, there was no storm, The soil

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is well taken care of. No other trees were even

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leaning on it. You wake up before the sun rise

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and you take note that something is missing from the sky,

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and it's like woi la, whoa, it's right there on

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the forest floor. This forest isn't new to the world.

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The majority of these trees were here long before the

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big machines and the men with hammers came to create

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homes for future families. My wife has been here for

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thirty five years. We've seen a lot of trees stumbling

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to their knees, most of them deeper into the forest,

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not in the front yard, like this one. Lessons to

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be learned taking notes while getting prepared for the next

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tree that will fall. I learn so much from trees

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in the way that they are some of the greatest storytellers.

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Trees and rocks, each of them hold their own source

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of energy. A tree such as this falls to the

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ground like it did last night sometime we don't know.

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We didn't even hear the crash, something that large, and

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we heard nothing. Maybe it fell because it was time

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to feed that part of the world. Now, the neighbor

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he'll cut it up and he'll put it back in

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the forest, but it won't be in that particular area.

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I wish I were a tree, so that I could

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stand so tall into the sky and overlook these places

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that need the moisture, that need the feeding from what

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will become my leaves and then my roots. As I

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fall to the ground, what do I learn from a tree?

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A tree is very giving. A tree that was planted

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grows up into the air, creates an umbrella for shade,

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but when it sacrifices its life, it becomes a page,

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something that I write on and from that page come

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words that I'm sharing. I'm planting a thought in side

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of you. Yes, it hurts like hell when these trees

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that you've been with for thirty five years fall because

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it's over. That's one of the main reasons why I

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started a new podcast called Thanks for Being a part

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of the Conversation. I'm going to spend the next year

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or two going from different places in this forest to

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share the story because I've been here so long. Nobody

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in the future will have anything to hold until someone says, look,

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there's something you should know. And that's my invitation for

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you today. Find your place where you go, Hey, you

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need to know something, taking your experiences and turning it

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into energy. Don't just fall to the forest floor, grow forward.

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