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Speaker 1: Ernie is a blue Crown conyer. For over thirty years,

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he's overlooked his forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Every day Ernie sits in his very beautiful home, overlooking

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the trees, the nearby lake, and every bit of the wildlife.

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Strolling through such an amazing piece of land. Ernie and

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I share the same vision. It's this forest. We both

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look into the trees and study the earth below. There's

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something very spiritual here. The lyrics to Ernie's Forest. We

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both receive an amazing amount of energy. I put all

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of that trust and all my skills into what that

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student is teaching me. Ernie. Remember these aren't my words.

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These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest, chapter number four

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hundred three, December seventeenth, twenty twenty three. They call it

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a Nor'eastern weather system, a huge wind and water maker

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that starts in the rolling hills of the South and

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pushes its strength all the way up into New York

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and beyond. The trees in my forest have no leaves

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to protect their limbs. They usually so low paced. Stream

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is over the top, full and moving like more of

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a mountain river. Very little light beneath a huge gray cloud.

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The trees almost look sad. I feel sad. The deer

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and the other animals are nowhere to be seen. How

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to use what feels like dread and doubt and turn

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it into a positive Well the answer is step forward

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with a productive mind. Get your mind on success, get

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your season of living in the past completely off your path.

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Be grateful of the rainstorms because as of late, every

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shape a climate can bring changes things. All living things

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need water to feed their roots. It's time to start

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celebrating what nature is trying to share. Water, energy, food,

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not just for the human being, but for all living things.

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How many times in your day do you put your

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mood in a place that is uncomfortable because it's not

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going your way. You don't have that big ball of sunsheh,

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You're not getting to play the games that you want

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to do. You didn't get to take this vacation, you

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had to take that one instead. We let these little

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things get in the way of being positive, and sometimes

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we like to fake up our positive I call it

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the candy coded plastic bathroom mere smile. Getting into that

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moment has to be a shift in your heart. I

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know we all can't have perfectly happy days every single day,

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but we can work on having this much more happiness

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when everything does feel like dread and doubt. Winning is

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a choice. You can choose to lose all you want,

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but we have more fun when we're winning, right, But

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it's a choice. You make, that choice to show up

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and win your game. I'm Eryl. These are not my words.

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These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forrest