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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.

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How much value do you put in time? And I

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asked that only because I'm a time freak. I am

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somebody who likes to be really super early because three

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hours early makes me feel like I'm six hours late.

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But time is so valuable to me. And I'm on

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this mission right now where I'm trying to calm down

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to give myself a certain amount of time to do things.

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But don't freak out if what I set out to

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accomplish is not met. Just calm down. A form of

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meditation is when I take my daily transition walk. It

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puts me in the center of this forest in South Charlotte,

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North Carolina, where I am just listening to what is

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going on around me, even the panting of my dog.

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When we're upon that path, I will sit there and

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listen to the rhythm of that so I can disappear

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from my addiction to time. How do you deal with that? Stinking?

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Because when you want something to be over quickly, it

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won't be. And when you want something to last forever,

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Well it won't be. Hey, Sarah, this is the daily Mess,

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a chronological walk through in everyday world. I am a

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daily writer, a silent wolf. I sit beneath the brush

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and I observe life. I love to look at life

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and then take notes. In fact, I was just talking

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with a non Varma. He's got a brand new book

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out called Invisible Wonders, and he basically said the same thing.

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He says, there's so much going on around us that

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if you take a camera and you photograph the things

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that we're missing, suddenly your heart changes. This is the

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daily mess. The fallen leaves are beginning to mount up

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on the deck. It's not that I'm lazy. I just

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tend to wait for the majority of those leaves to

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tell before whipping out the leaf blower. I see the

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leaves as being storytellers, to be so close to the sky,

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waving in the wind, while withstanding the twists and turns

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of every passing storm. But I'm that guy who sees

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a leaf on a tree as only part of the story.

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Why can't it be the flower before the fruit. A

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leaf helps feed what the human eye can't see. I've

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taken so many notes of all the mushrooms that are

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in full bloom right now in the forest to a tree,

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they connect a lot of things together beneath the soil.

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Science says it's how trees speak to each other as

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the leaves break down, aren't they in essence feeding the

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mushrooms or giving them secret hideaways to do their thing.

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Fall doesn't represent death or an ending. Maybe it's just

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rest for nature's makers, while the rest of nature finds

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energy in the fruits of the tree. Stop, look around,

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pay attention. I sound like my dad. Just stop and

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pay attention. There is so much moving around us that

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we really don't want to identify with because it's taking

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away from your time. In this forest, we have a

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herd of deer. I love my deer because they're so peaceful,

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but I've never taken the time to see what they're eating. Now,

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people will get upset because, well, they're eating my flowers,

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they're eating my plants, blah blah blah. I get it,

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I get it. But they're also eating other things that

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are keeping things away. The importance of the deer the

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peace maker. Take the time to look at your surroundings,

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even if you're in the car in the city, because

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there's something very beautiful about traffic in a city. Yeah,

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because it messes with our time, we hate it. But

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if you take the time to just look at all

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of the designs and the colors, and listen to the

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music in other people's cars, or maybe check in with

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a conversation, a little eavesdropping, I get it all of

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a sudden. Everything around you is part of the painting,

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but it calms you down. I'm arrow, and that's the

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daily mess.