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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This

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is Forest Stories. I am the Poet in the Forest,

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a children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,

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none of it would be possible if it wasn't for

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

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talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's

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time that you get to know what has inspired me

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for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.

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Welcome back to the forest.

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Speaker 2: The cool breeze within the summer trees, the sun as

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bright as it can be, and yet the breeze as

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a way of getting inside your heart and your imagination.

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Where I presently stand the final week of July, as

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we head into the dog days of summer of August,

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there's this cool breeze that always stops in to visit

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the writer, to allow that writer believe that it doesn't

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always have to be hot, steamy, humidified. That nature is

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always willing to give if you want to receive. But

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you have to be able to receive everything in order

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to respect this cool breeze inside this beautiful forest in

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South Charlotte, North Carolina, the birds are active the beekeepers.

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Bees are so busy, always something to do, just like

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the human. But the cool breeze inside these summer trees,

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they tend to open up the imagination so that you

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can dream and find a space to try new things,

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to look in different areas of the forest. It's always changing, evolving.

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There could be a snake today, tomorrow another red fox.

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By the way, in past episodes, we've talked about the cave. Well,

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the owners of the new cave, they've granted me permission

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to go into it, sit here and speak of this

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cool breeze within the trees. The goal is to continue

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to believe that there is a story here. Hey, thanks

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for being a part of a conversation.