Speaker 1: Ernie is my Blue Crown conyer. For over thirty years,
he's overlooked this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina.
Every day Ernie sits in his beautiful home, overlooking the trees,
the nearby lake, and every bit of the wildlife below.
Strolling through such an amazing, peace filled chunk of land,
something that belongs to Mother Earth, this forest. We both
look into the trees and study the earth below. There's
something very spiritual going on here. The lyrics to Ernie's Forest.
We both receive amazing amounts of energy. What I put
my trust and skills into is being his student to
learn from his actions and reactions. Because these aren't my words,
these are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest, Chapter number four
hundred nine. January twentieth, twenty twenty four, twenty five degrees
in the forest. This new sun, as weird as it
may seem in this day of out of control global warming,
could we actually be living a new ice age? Science
says uh uh no, no, no no no no no.
D greenhouse gases will keep this chilling thought away from reality.
Then again, other people have studied claim we are in
an interglacial period, when it concludes it will get very,
very cold. To be a tree, a stream, or a
jet black squirrel in this forest without an Internet connection means,
no matter how cold it is or will be, the
identity of survival is connected to communicating with all living things.
I wonder if the pesky, free flying squirrel knows it's
tickling the limbs of that living tree. There has to
be a relationship there. A squirrel's home is year round
up in that tree. Watching them both on a cold
Carolina winter's day would be an open invitation to get
closer to reading the atmosphere of what kind of seeds
are being tossed about by this wind? Does the squirrel
approve building that relationship with those who live inside this forest?
Jazzy my pointer, She and I will sit there for
hours and just look at everything moving, Because when you
go out there and you silently stand there, nature continues
look at what the human does, and there's nothing going
on here. I gotta go. But the living creatures of
this forest continue to do what they do. Yeah. Sure,
sometimes they'll fly off because Ooh, there's that pesky human again.
But no, nature keeps growing forward, no matter how cold
it is, how hot it will become. How much water
falls from the sky, it keeps going. That's what's inspiring.
That's what we can learn from because the art of
survival is animal connected. That's what they teach us in
martial arts. The moves that we do, it's all connected
to the way an animal would move if they were challenged.
Think about it, then activate it. I'm Eryl. These aren't
my words. These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest