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.
Can you hear it? The piano teacher at the base
of Heartbreak Hill? What amazing music. A car is going
to drive by now inside this forest. But I would
love for you to listen to the piano teacher just
a moment in this forest, as a gigantic jet is
about ready to fly over kind of a forest, is
that right? I seen that, Holy crab. It's a big
old Air Force jet, a B fifty two bomber. So
that must be what it sounds like in times of
war when the jets are flying over. But we're in
a time of peace inside this forest. This is kind
of a strange forest story this time around. Maybe it's
the humanization of the forest and it's not such a
fantasy land for a poet, one who happens to write
in a forest. And then it gets quiet, and the
birds return and the squirrels are playing. But during that
moment when that large airplane from the US Air Force
was going over, it's almost like they ran. Even I stopped.
The first time was to hear the piano music. The
second time the size of that Air Force jet. A
day in the forest, a forest that's changing, that is
really just amazing to be in, but you fear for
its future, which is the reason why I share these
stories inside this forest. Hey, thanks for being a part
of the conversation.