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Speaker 1: You would never mix up your peanut butter with watermelon,

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or even Taylor Swift with the piano. Guys, then again

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you might, well, that's what this is all about. Arrow

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dot net, arroet net seventeen different podcasts to choose from

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for your driving or just being at work entertainment. My

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boy Ernie, he is my blue Crown conyer, my boy boy.

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For over thirty two years, he's overlooked this forest right

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here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I mean, every day

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Ernie sits in his beautiful home, overlooking the trees, the

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nearby lake, and every bit the wildlife that is strolling

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so freely below us on top of the earth. Ernie

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

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both look into these trees and study the earth below.

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I mean, there is something extremely spiritual going on here.

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The lyrics to Ernie's Forest, we both receive an amazing

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amount of energy. I put all of my trust and

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skills as a student into what he is willing to

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share with me. These are not my words, these are

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the lyrics from Ernie's Forest, Chapter number four hundred twenty eight,

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May twenty fifth, twenty twenty four, Memorial Day weekend. This

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forest in South Charlotte doesn't know it as such, but

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it's feeling the arrival of southern heat and the violent

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rainstorms that come in the late afternoon hours or very

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early in the morning. We're talking two am, three am.

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The long, tall wild grass looks like ocean waves with

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a gentle breeze as it slips between each blade with

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such poise and beauty. I mean, there was once a

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time that I studied my martial arts in this field

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or meadow of deep green, my place of love and solitude.

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And yet I practiced my forms and pumsas in a

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place that wasn't as tough as I thought. The weight

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of my body sliding my bare feet across that forest

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floor ripped it to shreds. I to this day feel

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so guilty for not respecting all living things. These days,

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when I stroll through the tall grass near the slow

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moving stream, I do so with a lot of love

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in the way of staying in my own zone, with

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nothing but patience in my soul. I mean, you can

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hear so much when you're moving at a snail's pace.

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That's my subject right there, moving at a snail's pace.

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Let me ask you this question. When was the last

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time that somebody said, will you please act your age?

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And I'm not talking about a two or a three

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year old child. I'm talking about the grown adults who's

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trying to rush through life and then complain about how

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fast life is moving, but yet you had the choice

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to move at a snail's pace. There are many times

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that I will tell myself because of the amazing body aches,

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and I do not take any pain pills because I

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broke the rules. I broke the rules. I took too many,

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and the doctor looked at me and said, you did it, dude,

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you took too many. You're not supposed to take pain

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pills as a preventative. It's a pain pill when you

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are in pain, not when you're not in pain, and

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you're trying to prevent pain. Slow down the snail's pace.

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We are trying to rush through something, and I often

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wonder if it's because we're trying to get away from it.

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Are we actually running away from the fire or the

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crumbling fortress of people behind us? Or should we turn

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ourselves around, stare at the chariots that are chasing us

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and walk to them. Think about this, What are you

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doing and what are you deciding in your personal life?

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If you aren't moving at a snail's pace, then I

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must ask you what are you running away from. I'm Marril.

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These are not my words. These are the lyrics from

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Ernie's Forest