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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 just go ahead and turn it into a tool.

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This is arrow unplugged. I openly admit that I am

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a klutz. I am a total loser when it comes

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to walking a perfectly straight path. I'm going to trip

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somewhere along the way once or twice a year. I

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somehow someway dump my ink. Well, the most odd ball accidents,

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and it's always some sort of shape of laziness. My

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most recent is based solely on this laptop writing desk

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that I have that I set on the sofa and

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with a wild dog, things collided and the end result

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was yet another mess to clean up. And isn't that

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what best describes what life is. It's a series of

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messes that happened to unexpectedly come our way, and no

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matter what it is now our path, the identity of

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the experience may or may not change the w that

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we lean into life's everyday story. I mean, in nineteen

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ninety seven, I had no clue that spilled ink from

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the same writing desk that I put on my lap.

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It took the shape of a perfect wineglass, and it

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inspired my creative soul to become an artist on canvas,

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having a lot of success for fifteen years, and then

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one day it was over. It just went away. I

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don't know where it is, but a creative mind is

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never in a moment of well, can we sit down

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and talk about this. No. We always want to grow forward,

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We always want to get to that next level. But

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I will tell you though the conversation I had today

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with Songwriting Hall of Famer Don McClain, he said, you

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just got to be yourself. Don't be anybody else. If

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this is what you truly want, then make it happen

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and stick to the plan. You can always go back

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and remix and remaster, but never give up on the

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artist's self that you are. Hey, Tarow, this is the

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daily mass, a chronological walk through an everyday world. I

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am a daily writer, a silent wolf. I look at

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life and I study it spilled ink. Did I get

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pissed off? No? No, I look at things like that

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and go WHOA, Okay, is there going to be a change?

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Am I going to be inspired to move back to

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the canvas again? Wooh? This is exciting, But there's no

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reason to raise your anxiety level. Just move with the unexpected.

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This is the daily mess, and so another empty page

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has been delivered to my imagination. Not to leave it

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blank isn't part of the creative painting. Unlocking and early

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morning flow can easily be challenged by the existence of

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relocating energy. But why say no to yourself? I don't

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understand non writers and non writers don't understand how I

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can sit down and just put out page after page,

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ch after page of thought. It's all part of the formation.

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Making my way through excuses is something I thought everyone

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can do. I spoke with an author yesterday that really

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supported the idea that all people should figure out a

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way to put their story on a page. But most

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people don't think like that. What they do is they say, uh,

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I'm okay, nah, there is nothing exciting in my life.

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And yet for each and every one of us, as

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a daily writer, yes there is. There's always something exciting

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in your life. What you think is mundane could be

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very very entertaining, or just something interesting to pick up

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and read. My mother and sister were not writers. They're

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now gone. My brother is gone, my father is gone.

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None of them wrote anything. What I'm relying on is

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what I've written about them. But where I feel guilty

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as a writer is is that my interpretation of that relationship.

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I mean, I'm going to bring up the Bible for

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a second, look at how many stories of the same

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story are written by so many different authors. Every one

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of those stories have their own personal interpretation. That's what

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I find inspiring about what is shared inside the big Book.

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But I wasn't blessed with that opportunity with my own

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family because the experiences that I've had that they may

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have been a part of, it would have been great

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to hear how they went through the same exact moment

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and what they learned from those periods in time. That's

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why I challenge you to do something with your family

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in the way of let's write, let's go on a trip,

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and then everybody gets together at the end and write

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your own story as to what you experienced and then

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put it away, come back to it a different day

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and learn from that moment. Is an opportunity to not

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only release, but also receive. And when you get the

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opportunity to read something from somebody that you love so much,

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that are no longer with you. Wow, it is a

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blessing that you just can't put a price tag on.

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It's so precious. So I ask you pick up a

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writing instrument. If you're getting into the holidays and you

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don't know what kind of a gift to give somebody

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in your family, get them a writing instrument and a

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tablet and just say, when you get the time, just

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jot down some thoughts. I just want to hold onto

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your experiences a little bit further down the path. I'm

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Marrow and that's the daily mess.