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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 turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.

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Being a daily writer, keeping a written journal sometimes it's

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like picking apples from a tree. I mean writing in

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a journal nearly thirty years strong. There was once a

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time when I was convinced that in order to create

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art you had to live through tough times and dark thoughts.

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So the early days of my daily writing were aimed

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at documenting the negative points. Not a great idea, I mean, really, seriously,

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there's nothing worse than relying on moments of question and

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doubt to be your source to bring whatever is going

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to be creative forward. Breaking that habit meant paying attention

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to being aware of how things are being written and

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why it seemed to be so important to plant it

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on a page. There are no real teachers that come

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out to say this is how you're supposed to keep

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your journal. Some may suggest new seasons of expression, while

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others will endlessly put into your heart that keeping a

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journal is very personal and it's the inner image of

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your identity. And most people stay away from teaching people

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how to journal right because they don't want their image

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in the way that you break down your pages and

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your thoughts. That means do it your own way. Hey,

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it's aerow. This is the daily Mess, a chronological walk

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through in everyday world. I am a daily writer and

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today just happened to be Hey, how do you plant

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words on a page? How do you show up every

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day and not make it sound like it's the same thing.

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It's a daily mess. It truly is a daily mess.

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Now let's walk through it. A thought was given to

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me on Saturday, one that seems to be a lot

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of weight in the way that I'm thinking. This is

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the quote we are made well, but not made to last.

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Now why would that still be hanging out with me

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for forty eight hours? We are made well but not

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made to last. It almost sounds like a business mantra.

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Our product is made well, but it's not made to

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last because we need it to break in order to

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stay in business. Most people understand life's biggest rule, we

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aren't made to last. In knowing this, we push ourselves

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away from that thought or idea. I always see the

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quote as being a reason to live and trust in

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what is right now we know our strengths, but how

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long is it going to last? Nearly thirty years of

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daily writing. That's one experience that has fallen into place,

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and I have fallen witness to how life is a

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huge book with a lot of different chapters. We've had

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our cliffhanger moments, and how about those great mysteries that

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are still unsolved. Then one day we'll reach the final page.

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Here's my true question, who's going to write it? I'm

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Meryl and that's the daily mess.