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 turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
I woke up from a dream early early this morning,
realizing that this week right here marks my thirty first
anniversary with this beautiful forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina.
I didn't know in November of nineteen ninety two how
these trees would allow my weirdness to feel welcome inside
an area of my life that was quickly changing. It
wasn't entailed nearly two years later that I began a
daily writing lifestyle, and it required me to be with
this forest daily. At sunrise. You learn so much while
the rays of light stretched through the unconditional love of
the trees landing on your writing page. So many photographs
have been taken of the long shadows of a writing
hand holding on to the instrument. In fact, the pin
I'm using this small warning is the very one that's
featured on the cover of my very first book, One
man'senty twenty one Thoughts. So I write to the future reader,
and I speak with the future listener. I hope that
By the time that this message reaches you, beyond this anniversary,
the thirty first year, you too will have felt the
amazing love from this forest in South Charlotte, North Carolina. Hey, zerol,
this is the Daily Mess, a chronological walk through in
everyday world. I am that daily writer. I am a
silent wolf. I watch life, I view it with a
keen eye, a sense of humor, and a willingness to
be the student. And then we just talk. This is
the daily Mess. One of the most difficult things to
accomplish as that daily writer is training your thoughts to
stay free from identifying your place on the calendar unless
it's a major mile marker event set inside a headline
driven moment of history. It's who we are today. Think
our present place is going through so many unexpected news events,
only to be reminded by actor Rob Reiner on his
podcast Who Killed JFK. He reminds us of the decades
events and global worries. I literally have found myself wondering
how I would be at sixty one years old in America,
a white male during the Cuban missile crisis, the threat
of nuclear bombs blasting it was very real back in
the days of the early sixties, and yet here we
are in twenty twenty three. See I just put a
timestamp on it, staying true, to stay in, free from
identifying your place on the calendar. It teaches your heart
to fill the moment with everything else moving around us.
We aren't designed by history makers, but rather our imaginations
and a heart vowing to locate. I want to share
that one more time. We aren't designed by history makers,
but rather our imaginations and a heart vowing to locate.
What are you planting in your imagination? For me to
listen to Rob Reiner's podcast Who Killed JFK. It physically
picked me up from this present place of now and
set me inside the early sixties, stretching up into the
mid seventies and beyond. And I asked myself the question,
how would I have reacted if I would have been
that sixty one year old man that I am now
in that moment? How much fear and anxiety would I
have gone through? And would I be able to release
it with the power of a writing instrument on the
innocence of a page. What are you planting in your imagination?
History makers don't design you. Your imagination and your heart.
Seeking to locate does get them under control by listening
to them, figuring out who you are, why you are,
and what if I'm arrow? And that's the daily mess.