Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This is Forest Stories.
I'm the Poet in the Forest, a children's series that I pinned out
in the nineteen nineties. Now, none of it would be possible if it
wasn't for this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I talk
about it so much that I thought maybe it's time that you get to know
what has inspired me for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the
conversation. Welcome back to the forest. Today, a huge, huge system
from the Gulf of Mexico has hit this forest. We've talked about in the
past, the two statues that face the forest, but not the road.
Those statues have been leveled up by the amount of rain that we've got.
We've got creeks in areas where we've never had creeks. I want to travel
back here to the slow moving stream that goes to the lake. Not a
slow moving stream today because of the storm. I mean, we had a
tornado warning. We had to take cover, which is it's not anything new
to us because we live here in the south. But as I walk deeper
into the forest, now that slow moving stream that moves to the lake is
a river. Oh god, this is pretty dangerous to be back here right
now. My whole entire area of the forest is pretty much underwater. In
all my years, which is thirty one years here in Rainbow Forest, I've
never seen this before. My main main worry was that the bridge that we
talked about in a past episode where so many of my beautiful babies have transitioned,
was going to be washed away. It's still here. There's Oh my
god, there's a beautiful hawk. Hi. What do you do? And
you beautiful little angel? You? This is what it's about this forest.
I am here crossing the bridge. There's serious amounts of flooding back here.
The lake is like an ocean. I don't know if you can hear the
rain drops. But in this area, and we've not covered this at all
yet, but on a future episode of Four Stories, the area that I
basically declared my sacred circle is completely one percent underwater. Those places where I
went to pray, to meditate, to receive is just where I used to
be doesn't exist anymore. There's no way that I can even get into that
area. And it's even over here to the right side of my home is
a huge creek coming from the top of the hill, heartbreak Hill, and
you can't help us. Sit here and just think of the memories everything that
has happened. I mean, I am surrounded by so many different creeks that
are going. But this is why I love nature. This is why I
love this forest, It says, calm down, human, I'll take care
of everything. Just don't freak out. Hey, thanks for being part of
a conversation.