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Speaker 1: Ernie is my Blue Crown conyer. For over thirty years,

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

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

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

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Strolling through such an amazing, peace filled chunk of land,

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something that belongs to Mother Earth, 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 going on here. The lyrics to Ernie's Forest.

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We both receive amazing amounts of energy. What I put

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my trust and skills into is being his student to

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learn from his actions and reactions. Because 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 nine. January twentieth, twenty twenty four, twenty five degrees

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in the forest. This new sun, as weird as it

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may seem in this day of out of control global warming,

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could we actually be living a new ice age? Science

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says uh uh no, no, no no no no no.

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D greenhouse gases will keep this chilling thought away from reality.

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Then again, other people have studied claim we are in

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an interglacial period, when it concludes it will get very,

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very cold. To be a tree, a stream, or a

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jet black squirrel in this forest without an Internet connection means,

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no matter how cold it is or will be, the

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identity of survival is connected to communicating with all living things.

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I wonder if the pesky, free flying squirrel knows it's

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tickling the limbs of that living tree. There has to

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be a relationship there. A squirrel's home is year round

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up in that tree. Watching them both on a cold

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Carolina winter's day would be an open invitation to get

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closer to reading the atmosphere of what kind of seeds

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are being tossed about by this wind? Does the squirrel

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approve building that relationship with those who live inside this forest?

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Jazzy my pointer, She and I will sit there for

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hours and just look at everything moving, Because when you

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go out there and you silently stand there, nature continues

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look at what the human does, and there's nothing going

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on here. I gotta go. But the living creatures of

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this forest continue to do what they do. Yeah. Sure,

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sometimes they'll fly off because Ooh, there's that pesky human again.

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But no, nature keeps growing forward, no matter how cold

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it is, how hot it will become. How much water

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falls from the sky, it keeps going. That's what's inspiring.

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That's what we can learn from because the art of

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survival is animal connected. That's what they teach us in

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martial arts. The moves that we do, it's all connected

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to the way an animal would move if they were challenged.

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Think about it, then activate it. I'm Eryl. These aren't

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my words. These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest