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

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is Forest Stories. I'm the Poet in the Forest, a

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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. When marks are left on rocks, marks,

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you know, stains something that is going to be there

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for many months or many years. Jasey and I walking

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through this forest. A gigantic golden eagle is on the ground.

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It traps something. It's a bird of prey, trap something.

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It jumps up onto the rock and as we stand

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there just watching the golden eagle, we see that it's

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enjoying its dinner, and then it notices we're watching. At

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that point in time, the.

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Speaker 2: Eagle says, I got to get out of here so

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with its wings were so wide. The most amazing thing

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wasn't how it picked up the animal that it had

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trapped and was just serving as a dinner. But before

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that flight took off, that golden eagle took a gigantic

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dump on a rock, and that rock is still to

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this very moment stained. The thing about it is is

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that nobody else saw this yet. I know why that

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white mark is on that rock because we were there,

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And so I often wonder about other people's forces or

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city parks or places of escape. Do you ever fall

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witness to something that scars a rock, stains a stone,

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and you're the only one that knows of why it's

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there for some reason in that moment of right now,

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we fell witness to it. And is it important? I

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think it is because it's part of the story. If

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you don't share your story, someone is going to write

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it for you. Anyone who passes this area inside the

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forest is always going to say, huh, I wonder what

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happened on that rock. I know what it looks like,

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but how and why did it happen? Hmmm, I wonder

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what kind of a bird? It was? An owl? A hawk? No, no, no, no,

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it was a golden eagle. Hey, thanks for being a

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part of the conversation.