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net aarre dot net. Enjoy your exploration. My boy boy Ernie,

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he was a Blue Crown conyer for over thirty four years.

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He and I overlook this forest right here in South Charlotte,

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North Carolina, thirty four years together. Every day Ernie and

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I sat in this beautiful home, overlooking the trees, the

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nearby lake, and every bit the wildlife that peacefully strolled

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across the peaceful land beneath our feet. Ernie and I

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shared the same vision. It's this forest. We both looked

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into these trees and study the earth below. I mean,

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there is something amazingly spiritual going on here. The lyrics

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to Ernie's forest. We both receive an amazing amount of energy.

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I put all of my trust and skills as a

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student into what he is willing to share with me.

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These are not my words, These are the lyrics from

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Ernie's Forest, chapter number four hundred thirty seven, July thirteenth,

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twenty twenty four. Whoof a sweltering summer day is blistering

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the limbs and leaves of these giving trees. They do

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all they can to provide shade, to keep the ground cool,

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to embrace the extremely dry soil below so that it

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doesn't easily loosen up and flow down the slow paced

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stream leading to the lake beneath. The weather people are

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threatening us with one hundred degree temperatures over the next

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four to five days. Now, I'm worry about this because

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I'm nothing more than a poet inside a forest. I

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worry because of the newborn from the squirrels, to the bluebirds, cardinals,

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and the unstoppably beautiful fawn to which I spotted numerous

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times just to be in this present place of now

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where near the water. Mom has planted them there for

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damn good reason. The long, tall grasses provide more shelter,

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adding them to the invisible side of a forest of predators.

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A sweltering summer day. As animals, all we can do

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is adapt to the conditions provided by Mother Nature. I

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do often wonder, though, if the other living things complain

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about the heat, like the human bean, may we all

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peacefully grow together. I do wonder about that a lot,

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especially on days like today, where it's barely thirty two

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degrees the sun is out, but we've got snow on

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the ground like today's date happens to be January twenty eighth,

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twenty twenty six. This was written on July thirteenth, twenty

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twenty four. So, oh my god, so two years have

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gone by. We go from that sweltering hot, one hundred

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degree plus day to where I presently stand with this snow,

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the sunshine, the cold, and oh my god, this beauty

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inside this forest, and the animals still look at me

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the same. What are you doing, human? Yeah? Yeah, we

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got this, We got it. You're good, right, Go back

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in that little thing that you call a home. Yeah yeah,

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with the walls, the windows. Yeah, we got this. We

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don't need any complainers on our playing field. Do you

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ever think of that? We as human beings. We complain

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about the wind, we complain about the rain, how dry

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it is, we complain about each other, and the animals

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are like, why don't you go somewhere else and do

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your complaining. This is our peaceful piece of land. Mom.

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They eat the darnedest things, but I love them for it,

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and they're worth studying because it's in moments like this

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where you go. You know. I don't have any reason

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to complain because the deer, the baby fawn, the squirrels,

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the bluebirds, they're not coming inside my home. I would

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let them if they would allow themselves to do it,

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but they're not coming inside this home where the air

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conditioning and the heat are so As I sit in

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this forest on this January twenty eight, twenty twenty six day,

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and I see the beauty of this snow, I also

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look at the animals going teach me how to survive.

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I'm errow. These are not my words. These are the

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lyrics to Ernie's Forest