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Speaker 1: I guess you could say I am a graduate from

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the school of hard knocks. I live life at its

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easiest as well as its hardest, and I learn how

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to bring it all together to live a life of peace, mindfulness, forgiveness, compassion.

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I am addicted to creativity. I've got to have it

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at all times. I'll wake up in the middle of

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the night and I'm talking away of what I don't know.

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Unplugged 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. When was the last time that

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you were mentally moved by an event or a personal

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experience Your first reaction was what It's completely natural to

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take note of that moment then stuff it into your

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memory banks, only to forget about it. During these days

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of digital I'm meeting more and more people who prefer

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to speak into their smartphones for later use. Mark Twain

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did this. He had a recorder. That's how he got

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his story. Ideas they would come to him and he

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would put him inside this recorder. It was his secretary

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that laid it out on the page to be in

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that moment when mister Twain discovered the power of recording devices.

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How much of our own life is wasted setting ink

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free in the openness of journals and or note writing.

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I've been known to take up my smartphone recorder, but

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the thing is other people. I've been known to take

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up my smartphone recorder, but it makes others in the

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circle feel very uncomfortable, which is pretty strange to me.

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Because words shared in the openness of a meeting, why

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couldn't it have been documented? You were going to say

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it anyway, But the very second that you bring out

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a recording device, especially on your smartphone, people tend to

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stop moving. They give you the look. Anxiety can be

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seen inside their eyes because that recording device is documenting

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when in reality, if it wasn't there, we would still

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be documenting with our memory. But you know where the

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memory goes. It only holds on to what it thinks

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it knows. Hey, serow, this is the daily mass, a

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chronological walk through in everyday world. I am a daily writer,

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a silent wolf of sorts. I love looking out at

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everything and finding inspiration and motivation from everything. It's a

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lot of content, but it's got to be put someplace.

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It's in my journals, a regular journal as well as

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a d frag journal. But we learn from it, We

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teach from it, we grow with it. This is the

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daily mess. Although it was just yesterday, it feels like

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days since I put ink in the veins of this

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living tree. The mind and memory struggle with the subject

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shared not even twenty four hours ago. It's too easy

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to return to the scene. If I convince myself to

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go back one day to figure out what I was

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writing yesterday morning at this very time, I'll expect the

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behavior in other experiences forgetting about things can be an

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easy out for anybody. My mother used to say, I

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don't remember, Well, Mom, I need the answer, son, I

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don't remember. Challenging yourself to remember is a huge chore,

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but it's also an exercise that you could be doing

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every day. I work with people that aren't even in

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their twenties yet, and they have a difficult time remembering things.

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They rely so much on their smartphone apps and alarms

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to keep them on track. And you know what, I'm

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guilty of that too, And because I rely on them

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so much, I returned to the app in twenty minutes

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to remind myself of what I reminded myself back then.

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Is it a weakness or do these apps give us

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the luxury to find new things to explore. I've been

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in the broadcast industry for forty three years. We didn't

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have digital devices. Forty three years ago, it was tape,

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two track tape. If you want to splice something together,

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you had to have a grease pencil and a razor blade. Today,

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that would be one of the greatest things to experience again,

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because there was something about that time we spe marking

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then cutting it allowed us to put pride in the project,

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Whereas in the digital world, if I screw up, there's

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a big chance you're not going to hear it because

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it's so easy to go back and erase it. So therefore,

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a complete thought for me as a broadcaster could actually

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be several attempts at trying to share a message. How

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many times did it take me to get to this

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point where we are right now? Did I have to

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do some editing? You don't see it, but that's what

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we do as broadcasters. We create a thought, we take

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that thought, and we move it forward. But can I

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tell you what I talked about yesterday? No? I can't

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unless I physically take this book right here in my

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hands and go back to that day. And I think

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I should do it right here in front of you.

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So today is April eighteenth, twenty twenty three. Let's go

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back to the seventeenth. Oh, he's not a happy camper. No,

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he's not a happy camper at all. Wow. He Basically,

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I'll read you the words. Jesus please, I teach in

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a matter of hours. I honestly feel like I just

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got home from the essential job. Well in reality, it

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was just eight hours ago. And if I go to

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teach broadcasting and then you can feel it on the page,

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the depth of the writing instrument on the page. Let

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it be written in these pages that the industry I

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once participated with isn't what it used to be. The

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life and pride are not there. Wow wow wow wow

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wow wow. Being honest on a page and then taking

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it to this platform. That's a challenge that I would

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love to give to you. What are you thinking? What

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are you forgetting when you put something in that smartphone?

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Is it an identity of who you are or what

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you are receiving? Because what you receive can change what

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you are and where you are. Do you trust the

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wind like that? Are you able to cope with such

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situations like that? Because the same old you is not true.

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We change every day. Do you accept it? Or do

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you sit there and go? If I don't remember it,

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I don't have to participate with it. But I challenge you.

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I challenge you to take your recording device, share a thought,

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and come back to it in seven days and let's

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see what you felt in a moment of receiving it

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days after you first got your hands on it. I'm

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Marril and that's the daily mess.