Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction 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.
Kinna get real the kind of stuff that really puts
us on a path of Oh, I guess this really
is happening when life's paths put you in a place
that comes to you on Google Calendar as a collection
of several weeks that'll seem challenging. But are they challenging?
What if the universe suddenly shifts to keep us replenished,
to maintain a path of outward growth without getting bored,
Because in reality, that's when we want to instantly replace
things to embrace a thought about taking a chance, to
which I grip because there's nothing like learning brand new things.
But how much time will be saved to properly grow
with it? I do live by the strength and mistakes
of the Google calendar, good or bad. I have to
leave notes to stop and get gas, to remind myself
to set up a doctor's appointment, and all other things
that once seem so easy to achieve with without something
going thing has googled, just like spell check made us lazy.
What are your plans for the next day? Oh look,
let's go to Google calendar and find out. Hey, it's Errol.
This is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through an
everyday world. I am a daily writer. I view life.
I look at everything around us, and you can see
all that's missing. But how much of it do you recognize?
Or how much of it do you pass because you
don't want to invest through required energy? This is the
Daily Mess. We're going to talk about the Transition today,
which includes a television commercial that I saw many many
times as a child growing up in the state of Montana.
The little boy in the commercial walks up to the tree.
There's an owl up there, and the kid asks how
many licks does it take to get to the center
of a CHUTCHI pop, let's see one, two, three, crunch,
and then the announcer comes in. The world may never know.
The entire commercial lasted fifteen seconds, with the strength to
remove five decades of weight, taking me directly into a
childhood that was blessed with parental love and discipline. It
wasn't the best looking house. It was a home which
is still standing today, but under the control of a
third generation. The transition, handing things forward, believing that what
you were once part of still carries the love and
discipline that your parents shared with you. This is why
it's so important to learn how to share the family story,
not just yours, but to get other family members to
put in their experiences. I grew up in a house
of eight kids. None of us are the same. We
may kind of resemble each other. You might say you're related, right,
but our lives none of us share the same path.
And as my brothers and sisters are in their transition,
I'm not going to get theirs. I can base it
off my own personal experiences. But the one thing that's
missing from this ancestor thing that we've been doing is
we're not getting the story, the journey of what they
went through in order to become because everybody is carrying
their own story forward, and for some it's a lot
of weight. For others, it's just fluff they're throwing over
their shoulders. Before that transition happens and you move into
a fourth and a fifth generation, what are you preserving
for those that are in front of us. I have
nothing on my grandparents, Grandma Dobrins, or even Grandma Bakan
for that matter, my step grandmother, Grandma Anthony from Billingspontana.
I have nothing because I didn't take the time to
ask the questions. The only thing that I have are
my personal experiences, and even at sixty one, I look
back going, I don't know if it's right guy, because
it's going to be based on what you know today
and not what you experienced yesterday. When you do this
ancestor thing, you go to these websites and you try
to figure out who you've been related with all these
years and try to dig up some family secrets and
see if you're really related with. Why don't you also
invest some energy in sharing the story of your family.
Maybe it's time that you dig into the family recipes
and start giving it to the rest of the world.
I'm Marrow and that's the daily mess.