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September 10, 2025 3 mins
I’m always asking questions.  The fun begins when you start researching for answers. Such as…   Waking up with a word in your head, what does it mean?  How can we activate it?  Plus…how do book stores know where to put their books?  Do they have their own system?            I’m Arroe…  I am a daily writer.  A silent wolf.  I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen study then activate.  I call it The Daily Mess.  A chronological walk through an everyday world.  Yes, it’s my morning writing.  As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we as people tend to throw it to the side and deal with it later.  When a subject arrives, I dig in.  It’s still keeping a journal!  By doing the research the picture becomes clearer.  This is the Daily Mess…  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm always asking questions, and the reason why is because
the fund begins when you start researching for answers such
as waking up with a word or words in your head?
What exactly does that mean? And how can we activate it? Plus?
How do bookstores know where to put their books? Do
they have their own system? My name is Erro. I'm
a daily writer, a silent wolf. That means I stand

(00:22):
on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study,
then activate. I happen to call it the daily mass,
a chronological walk through in everyday world. Yeah, it's my
morning pages. As a receiver of thoughts and ideas, we
as people tend to throw things to the side and
deal with it later. Well, when a subject arrives inside
of me, I know it's time to dig in. It's

(00:43):
still keeping that daily journal, but by doing the research,
the picture becomes clearer. This is the daily Mass. Do
you ever wake up with a word or several words
just flowing freely through your heart as well as your thoughts?
The very second I took my first step this morning,
I heard this in my head. Dewey decimal. What Dewey decimal?

(01:05):
It really has nothing to do with math. Yet with
those numbers, books in a library would sit around in
a city library like a group of wandering, mindless gypsies
with no place to go But next. Melville Dewey created
this way to organize books in libraries in eighteen seventy six.
There are ten main classes involved. The library uses the

(01:26):
system to assign nonfiction books a number which is placed
on the outside on the spine. Computer science is always
going to be in the zeros, religion will always be
in the two hundreds, the arts can be found in
the seven hundreds, and anything historic will always be in
the nine hundred section. The decimal system is used to
be more specific, narrowing the search. Now the real goal

(01:49):
is to encourage readers to discover new things. The Dewey
decimal system is a global language which makes using any
library anywhere very simple to search if you know what
you're looking for. Hey, coming up next, bookstores? Do they
use the Dewey decimal system? Hey, welcome back to the

(02:12):
daily Mess. Do bookstores use the Dewey decimal system? I
mean you would think if it works for libraries, people
like Barnes and Noble would jump in on a winning
global way. Oh, they don't use it in their system.
What a bookstore puts focus on subjects based on the characterization.
It's also well known that some bookstores develop their own

(02:34):
system of book display. A bookstore creates broad genres, then
alphabetically they'll place the authors in order. They say it
makes it easier for customers. I laugh about that because
so many of us are guilty of removing a book
from its proper place than putting it down elsewhere. How
would you like to be the one that has to

(02:55):
block that bookstore. Some bookstores use the BISAC system Book
Industry Standards and Communications. It's when they rely on subject
headings and subheadings to categorize a book. Well, why don't
they use the Dewey decimal system. Well, it's the difference
between browsing and finding. A bookstore wants their books to

(03:18):
be appealing and discoverable, and then what happens, Yeah, we
buy them and take them home. I'm marrow and that's
the daily mess.
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