Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's just go ahead and turn it into a tool.
This is arrow unplugged. I openly admit that I am
a klutz. I am a total loser when it comes
to walking a perfectly straight path. I'm going to trip
somewhere along the way once or twice a year. I
somehow someway dump my ink. Well, the most odd ball accidents,
and it's always some sort of shape of laziness. My
most recent is based solely on this laptop writing desk
that I have that I set on the sofa and
with a wild dog, things collided and the end result
was yet another mess to clean up. And isn't that
what best describes what life is. It's a series of
messes that happened to unexpectedly come our way, and no
matter what it is now our path, the identity of
the experience may or may not change the w that
we lean into life's everyday story. I mean, in nineteen
ninety seven, I had no clue that spilled ink from
the same writing desk that I put on my lap.
It took the shape of a perfect wineglass, and it
inspired my creative soul to become an artist on canvas,
having a lot of success for fifteen years, and then
one day it was over. It just went away. I
don't know where it is, but a creative mind is
never in a moment of well, can we sit down
and talk about this. No. We always want to grow forward,
We always want to get to that next level. But
I will tell you though the conversation I had today
with Songwriting Hall of Famer Don McClain, he said, you
just got to be yourself. Don't be anybody else. If
this is what you truly want, then make it happen
and stick to the plan. You can always go back
and remix and remaster, but never give up on the
artist's self that you are. Hey, Tarow, this is the
daily mass, a chronological walk through an everyday world. I
am a daily writer, a silent wolf. I look at
life and I study it spilled ink. Did I get
pissed off? No? No, I look at things like that
and go WHOA, Okay, is there going to be a change?
Am I going to be inspired to move back to
the canvas again? Wooh? This is exciting, But there's no
reason to raise your anxiety level. Just move with the unexpected.
This is the daily mess, and so another empty page
has been delivered to my imagination. Not to leave it
blank isn't part of the creative painting. Unlocking and early
morning flow can easily be challenged by the existence of
relocating energy. But why say no to yourself? I don't
understand non writers and non writers don't understand how I
can sit down and just put out page after page,
ch after page of thought. It's all part of the formation.
Making my way through excuses is something I thought everyone
can do. I spoke with an author yesterday that really
supported the idea that all people should figure out a
way to put their story on a page. But most
people don't think like that. What they do is they say, uh,
I'm okay, nah, there is nothing exciting in my life.
And yet for each and every one of us, as
a daily writer, yes there is. There's always something exciting
in your life. What you think is mundane could be
very very entertaining, or just something interesting to pick up
and read. My mother and sister were not writers. They're
now gone. My brother is gone, my father is gone.
None of them wrote anything. What I'm relying on is
what I've written about them. But where I feel guilty
as a writer is is that my interpretation of that relationship.
I mean, I'm going to bring up the Bible for
a second, look at how many stories of the same
story are written by so many different authors. Every one
of those stories have their own personal interpretation. That's what
I find inspiring about what is shared inside the big Book.
But I wasn't blessed with that opportunity with my own
family because the experiences that I've had that they may
have been a part of, it would have been great
to hear how they went through the same exact moment
and what they learned from those periods in time. That's
why I challenge you to do something with your family
in the way of let's write, let's go on a trip,
and then everybody gets together at the end and write
your own story as to what you experienced and then
put it away, come back to it a different day
and learn from that moment. Is an opportunity to not
only release, but also receive. And when you get the
opportunity to read something from somebody that you love so much,
that are no longer with you. Wow, it is a
blessing that you just can't put a price tag on.
It's so precious. So I ask you pick up a
writing instrument. If you're getting into the holidays and you
don't know what kind of a gift to give somebody
in your family, get them a writing instrument and a
tablet and just say, when you get the time, just
jot down some thoughts. I just want to hold onto
your experiences a little bit further down the path. I'm
Marrow and that's the daily mess.