Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This
is Forest Stories. I am the Poet in the Forest,
a children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,
none of it would be possible if it wasn't for
this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I
talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's
time that you get to know what has inspired me
for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.
Welcome back to the forest.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can hear it, but this
is tropical storm Debbie pounding hard on this forest in
South Charlotte. We've seen our share of tropical storms, and
I'm very blessed in this moment of now to see
something that's very special. As hard as it's raining. You
should see this box turtle on the floor of this forest.
Speaker 1: He's just looking at me.
Speaker 2: He's like, going, how are you doing today? Human? I'm
sure glad that we've got some water finally. Now I
can do some swimming while standing on land, and there's
a lot of water on the land. Tropical storms come
through here and they dump so much water on the
forest and everything else around us, and then it disappears
like a snowstorm. Yeah, when they say it's gonna snow,
everybody gets all freaked out. It does snow, and then
it goes away, just like this water will go away.
But this turtle isn't going away. Right in the middle
of this tropical storm, he's taking it all in. I
don't see the deer, I don't see any of the birds,
but I see the turtle just saying, Hi, how are you.
Everything's going to be great, tropical storm Debbie, right here
in our little forest. Hey, thanks for being a part
of the conversation.