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Speaker 1: Ernie, Oh, my boy, boy Ernie. He is a blue

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Crown conyer, and for over thirty years he has looked

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over this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina.

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

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the nearby lake, and every bit of the wildlife, peacefully

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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 absolutely very spiritual going on here. The lyrics to

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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's willing to share with me. These

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aren't my words, These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest,

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chapter number four hundred and twenty March thirtieth, twenty twenty four.

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There are so many fallen branches in this forest on

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the floor. This is a battle for me. Two absolutely

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one hund percent different sides. The branches help feed the

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soil and give other living insects and animals something to

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feed off. Then there's that side of my love for

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this forest that wants it to look clean and not cluttered. See.

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I like the way that I can take a situation

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like this and I can deal with it in other

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areas of my life, such as the interviews that I

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do for my podcasts. Am I truly sharing what the

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listener wants to hear an in depth conversation by taking

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out the mistakes? Or should I leave the fallen branches

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just like the forest floor to be authentic and real?

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Is it okay to let what's natural to stay on

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the forested floor or should it be stacked up in

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humanized woodpiles because it looks really good in a selfie?

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I learn so much from this collection of trees that

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it can be used as tools on the other paths

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of our everyday life. I want this forest to be

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vibrant with life. It knows how to feed its roots.

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But what about you? You doing in your everyday world

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to either cleanse and over cleanse your path of moving forward?

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Or you're pretty much like a real forested floor and

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it all falls right there and whatever happens happens. And

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if a hiker comes walking through there and there are

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no paths, not a favorite walk to take because you

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don't know what's beneath the leaves. You don't know what

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you can't see. You can assume all you want, but

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a forest floor is not going to be nice to

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you if you're not familiar with the layout of everything

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that has made that collection of trees. It's very true

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even in a city park or if you're just taking

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a walk through a neighborhood or in an uptown area.

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There's something always going on around you. And if you

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don't mentally and physically learn from it, then what's the

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journey for. It's not about to sit there and say,

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oh my god, I'm having a great time. Pull something

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from it, Because for you to get where you are

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in your moment of now, it wasn't just handed to you.

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You earned it. But what did you earn to get there?

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

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lyrics from Ernie's Forest.