1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,720 Speaker 1: You like making discoveries right? How about Arrow dot net, 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:07,040 Rroe dot net not a podcast but a podcast network, 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,880 twenty different podcasts to choose from. Like street Speak with 4 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:16,039 Alexa and Clarence. It's one man, a Hugh Man having 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:22,000 a conversation with AI technology. What are the comparisons? Do 6 00:00:22,039 --> 00:00:27,239 they have anything to compare with Alexa and Clarence? Street 7 00:00:27,239 --> 00:00:30,719 Speak on Ero dot net, r r Oe dot net. 8 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:37,039 Enjoy your exploration. My name is Erro. Do you believe 9 00:00:37,079 --> 00:00:40,200 in resurrections? I mean they happen every day? But are 10 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:43,759 you willing to listen, to participate, to explore and find 11 00:00:43,799 --> 00:00:48,600 newer ways to understand? This podcast isn't about what we 12 00:00:48,679 --> 00:00:52,039 study and see through the eyes of religion. My boy 13 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:54,759 boy Ernie spoke with me each chance we had together. 14 00:00:55,399 --> 00:00:58,320 But this isn't about resurrecting a spiritual brother of nearly 15 00:00:58,359 --> 00:01:03,119 thirty four years. This resurrection is that of a writing instrument, 16 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,120 verbal documentation of what some may call a vision quest. 17 00:01:07,519 --> 00:01:11,519 Trusting the great mysteries of life. Tools are handed to 18 00:01:11,560 --> 00:01:15,640 us to carve out each expectation. This tool was laid 19 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,760 to rest inside a forest to experience the elements of 20 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:23,079 reality while connecting with a universe that unconditionally shares its stories, 21 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:28,560 But who's writing it. Welcome to the Resurrection. 22 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 2: Welcome back to the forest. It's kind of hard to 23 00:01:32,519 --> 00:01:35,359 believe that a week has gone by. We had the ice, 24 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:38,200 and we had a little bit of snow, and we 25 00:01:38,239 --> 00:01:42,640 had the bitter cold. This one area of Ernie's little place, 26 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,000 I call it Ernie's garden, I guess. But the writing 27 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,159 instrument is there, my boy boy, Ernie writing instrument still 28 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:55,159 after a week, beneath the ice. It blows me away 29 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,079 because it's almost like has it frozen time? What is 30 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:03,680 Ernie thinking about? What about that writing instrument? Is there 31 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,640 energy between the two? Has Ernie shared his soul with 32 00:02:07,719 --> 00:02:12,240 the writing instrument? Will Ernie even make that choice? Well, 33 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,680 where we stand at a week later is even a 34 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:20,719 bigger winter storm. This one is predicted to bring six 35 00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:26,280 to ten inches of snow, and the writing instrument and 36 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:32,439 Ernie are still there inside the garden. Weather like this 37 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,199 is what to me is the reason why we write, 38 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:40,560 to be creative, to feel from the atmosphere of change, 39 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:42,080 because we don't know what's going to be on the 40 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,080 opposite side from something like this. Because I think bitter 41 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,639 cold and snow and ice, the wind. It has the 42 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,039 strength to crack a seed, to create a brand new beginning, 43 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:57,039 the first step of something that you couldn't predict. And 44 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:01,039 as I stand here with Ernie and this beautiful, beautiful 45 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:07,199 forest surrounding us, the expectation is high. Ten inches of snow? 46 00:03:08,159 --> 00:03:12,400 Is that even possible? And how will Ernie and the 47 00:03:12,439 --> 00:03:16,960 writing instrument react? Will it brings stories from an upside 48 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,280 down world? Oh? Oh, I just stole that from Stranger Things. 49 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:26,080 But what if the upside down world exists? What happens 50 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:29,280 if Ernie is part of that? And the writing instrument 51 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:32,319 is how I'm going to communicate with those who believe 52 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:35,479 and those who want to take me on. So what 53 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,680 I love about being a writer, this writing instrument, Ernie's. 54 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,919 It's called the My Boy Boy Writing Instrument to be 55 00:03:44,039 --> 00:03:47,879 freed from the soil. On February fifteenth, twenty twenty six. 56 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:53,960 We are nowhere near that, but we are close to 57 00:03:54,039 --> 00:04:04,039 another winter storm. Ten inches of snow. The snow is here. 58 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,319 All I wanted was one day of snow to go 59 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,639 with my boy boy. Ernie. Pan is kind of a 60 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:12,039 thorn in the side, But you know, I'm standing next 61 00:04:12,439 --> 00:04:14,360 to where Ernie has been laid to rest. And what's 62 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,680 so fascinating about this There are so many birds around 63 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,480 this area. Even though it is snowing. There are a 64 00:04:20,639 --> 00:04:22,959 lot of birds that have come so almost like they 65 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:25,360 want to sing a song. Hey, Ernie, let me sing 66 00:04:25,439 --> 00:04:27,680 a song today. Let me plant a song inside that 67 00:04:27,959 --> 00:04:31,600 writing instrument, which I would love, because, oh my god, 68 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,319 it would be the most fascinating thing to be using 69 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:36,639 the writing instrument inside a journal. And all of a 70 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,279 sudden I start hearing music, Well, I would know where 71 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:44,519 that music came from a very snowy day in Carolina, 72 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:48,759 as I patiently wait for the Resurrection Day, which is 73 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,480 going to be on February fifteenth, twenty twenty six, And 74 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:54,240 today's only the thirty first of January, so we have 75 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,720 a lot of winter weather still in front of us. 76 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,600 But right now, what I want to do is I 77 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:00,199 want to put a lot of birds set out here 78 00:05:00,319 --> 00:05:03,680 for Ernie's friends. They're no longer these people or these 79 00:05:03,759 --> 00:05:07,959 feathered things that you know, looked inside the home, inside 80 00:05:08,079 --> 00:05:12,439 his beautiful atmosphere, that mansion of his which is still gorgeous. 81 00:05:14,639 --> 00:05:16,399 Now he can be out here with them. As for 82 00:05:16,439 --> 00:05:18,639 what's going on, inside the mansion. When it comes to 83 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,720 the resurrection, the writing desk that my daughter and grandchildren 84 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:26,240 gifted me with a couple of years ago is inside 85 00:05:26,439 --> 00:05:30,360 his mansion, and with it are his feathers, and so 86 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,279 on the thirty fourth day, the writing instrument will be 87 00:05:33,319 --> 00:05:37,160 placed inside that desk, which will then sit inside his 88 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,839 mansion for thirty four days. But it is receiving his 89 00:05:41,079 --> 00:05:44,360 energy that's been left inside the mansion while he is 90 00:05:44,399 --> 00:05:53,480 out here enjoying this beautiful snowfall. It's been nearly two 91 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:57,519 weeks since the ice first fell onto the forest floor, 92 00:05:58,439 --> 00:06:01,519 and I talked about that, what must it be like 93 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:05,360 for Ernie and the writing instrument to be tucked inside 94 00:06:05,399 --> 00:06:09,600 the soil of this forest with all that ice on top, 95 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,879 And then not even a week later, ten inches of 96 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:19,319 unexpected snow sat on top of this beautiful little creature, 97 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,199 my little green man, my songbird, my jazz singer. And 98 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,439 so it's been almost two weeks since this area of 99 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,800 the forest has not seen the sunshine. And so to 100 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,360 walk into the forest to this area and to see 101 00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:36,560 a bare earth, it's like what I'm not used to 102 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,480 that I'm used to seeing ice for warmth. I'm used 103 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,879 to seeing snow for beauty I'm used to. It's like 104 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:46,519 it ain't that. What you need to be used to 105 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,160 right now is mud because this whole entire area is mud. 106 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:52,399 And of course my heart has so much compassion for 107 00:06:52,519 --> 00:06:55,160 my boy boy Ernie as well as that writing instrument, 108 00:06:55,199 --> 00:06:58,800 because you know, materialistic value is materialistic value? How much 109 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,639 did you pay for that panic? And it's in the 110 00:07:01,759 --> 00:07:08,319 earth unprotected? Oh no, But the writer in me, the artist, 111 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:12,439 wanted to have something that had exceeded any limits that 112 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,560 I've ever done before when it comes to writing instruments, 113 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,920 and that is it has to lay next to Ernie 114 00:07:18,959 --> 00:07:23,439 for thirty four days before coming into the area of warmth, 115 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:25,680 which will be the writing desk that was gifted to 116 00:07:25,720 --> 00:07:28,439 me for my daughter and grandchildren, and it will stay 117 00:07:28,439 --> 00:07:31,639 in there for thirty four days inside Ernie's mansion overlooking 118 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:34,240 the forest. But I'm a long ways away from that. 119 00:07:34,319 --> 00:07:38,240 Today is only the fifth of February twenty twenty six. 120 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:40,759 I don't get to go anywhere near that writing instrument 121 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,839 or uncover it to give it some real sunshine for 122 00:07:43,879 --> 00:07:47,040 another ten more days. And what's in the forecast today? 123 00:07:47,879 --> 00:07:48,199 Speaker 1: More so? 124 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:54,079 Speaker 2: Now? Oh the stories, Oh the stories, and I keep 125 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,079 praying that I wish Ernie here's this when I say, 126 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,839 put it in the writing instrument, give me something to 127 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:06,519 write about that isn't like anything else we've ever experienced. 128 00:08:12,079 --> 00:08:15,680 We're eight days away from the resurrection basically, or the 129 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:19,240 human being taking the My Boy Boy writing instrument out 130 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,399 of the ground. And as I stand in this section 131 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,000 of the forest where Ernie has been laid and the 132 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,279 writing instrument is next to it as well, there's a 133 00:08:28,360 --> 00:08:32,200 lot of squirrel holes here. They're digging for something. And 134 00:08:32,279 --> 00:08:35,399 so as I stand above the site where the earth 135 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:40,759 was removed but peacefully put back, I'm looking into the 136 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,480 holes trying to figure out what the squirrels would be 137 00:08:44,480 --> 00:08:49,559 looking for. Now, the unbelievably beautiful box that Ernie and 138 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:52,960 all of his things were placed in has not been touched. 139 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,960 The squirrels have not dug down that deeply. But to 140 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:00,360 see this many squirrel holes, it's like, what are you 141 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:04,320 looking for? What are you trying to free? Can I 142 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:08,480 bring something up spiritual without pissing somebody off? Is this 143 00:09:08,639 --> 00:09:11,799 removal of the giant boulder in front of the cave? Oh? 144 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,720 How dare you go there? There's no way you can 145 00:09:14,759 --> 00:09:17,799 compare this to that of all the ancient stories that 146 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:22,080 we've read. And yet I'm standing right here. There literally 147 00:09:22,159 --> 00:09:26,840 are six holes above where Ernie has been laid to rest, 148 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:30,679 and I can't see what they're looking for or what 149 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:35,159 they have freed. We are eight days out the resurrection 150 00:09:35,399 --> 00:09:39,840 of the writing Instrument, the My Boy Boy Ernie Writing Instrument. 151 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,559 I would like to give you an update as to 152 00:09:48,480 --> 00:09:52,960 what real studies determine and not one's imagination when it 153 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,879 comes to giant boulders in front of caves and you 154 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,480 get this inkling or this feeling that, oh, my god, 155 00:09:58,519 --> 00:10:00,960 I could be living so out here. Is there a 156 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:03,279 message here? Well, first of all, what you need to 157 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,600 understand is that when squirrels are digging around grave sites, 158 00:10:06,919 --> 00:10:09,399 the earth is soft. They only want to dig where 159 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:11,600 it's easy to get into. They don't want to deal 160 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,200 with things that are heavy, so therefore they see the 161 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:16,279 soft dirt. Well, my God, in Heaven, what I'm going 162 00:10:16,279 --> 00:10:17,960 to do is I'm going to put seeds in there, 163 00:10:18,159 --> 00:10:20,440 or for that matter, there could be food down in there, 164 00:10:20,759 --> 00:10:23,480 So they're either looking for buried food, or what they're 165 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,440 doing is they want to store some buried food in 166 00:10:25,440 --> 00:10:27,240 there because it's still in the middle of winter and 167 00:10:27,279 --> 00:10:29,360 they're looking for areas where they can easily get to 168 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:31,759 so and you know, they could be hunting for insects. 169 00:10:31,919 --> 00:10:34,960 There's just something about that soft ground that has their attention. 170 00:10:35,279 --> 00:10:36,919 Now here's the thing that a lot of people don't 171 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,440 realize is that it's very symbolic and very spiritual to 172 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:43,799 get an interpretation. When you see a squirrel digging holes 173 00:10:43,799 --> 00:10:48,240 inside a grave site, it usually should mean and this 174 00:10:48,279 --> 00:10:50,720 is what I picked up on, is that life is continuing. 175 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:55,679 Preparation comes with cycles, and nature tends to leave behind 176 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,120 stories that we can grab onto. And you know what, 177 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,159 things like this, the squirrel on top of where Ernie 178 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:04,879 and the writing instrument that my boy boy Ernie writing 179 00:11:04,919 --> 00:11:09,559 instrument are Life doesn't stop. That's the message. This is 180 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,600 what I'm researching. This is not my words. This is 181 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,799 what I'm researching. The earth is active, it is not still. 182 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:21,440 Even places of loss are part of a living system. See. 183 00:11:21,519 --> 00:11:23,639 I didn't want to go any further with this story 184 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:26,639 with my boy boy Ernie and the writing instrument until 185 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:28,720 we had a better understanding, because I don't need some 186 00:11:28,879 --> 00:11:31,759 sort of troll or a quack writing to me saying, oh, 187 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,919 you think your bird whose jews was Christ? No, I 188 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,000 do not. This is a personal journey as a writer. 189 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:39,200 And if you think I'm the only one as a 190 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,720 writer or an author, then I invite you to walk 191 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:43,919 a mile in my shoes and sit down with the 192 00:11:43,919 --> 00:11:47,279 other creative people where I'm explaining this journey to them, 193 00:11:47,799 --> 00:11:50,559 that this resurrection of a writing instrument being in the 194 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:52,879 ground for thirty four days, and I would say, hey, 195 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,879 this is a really stupid idea. And the majority, the 196 00:11:56,919 --> 00:11:59,759 majority of those who are creative that I've sat with 197 00:12:00,159 --> 00:12:04,799 shared this with, they look at me and they go, no, 198 00:12:06,519 --> 00:12:12,120 that's a story. That's a writing instrument. I want to 199 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,840 read what you will one day write. 200 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: The resurrection. It's a true story. Learn more about this 201 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,840 forest and my boy boy Ernie on arrow dot net, 202 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:28,759 a re dot net. His story, his journey a new 203 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:31,360 path with the writing instrument are available on the podcast 204 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:35,600 The lyrics from Ernie's Forest. Future episodes of this podcast 205 00:12:35,639 --> 00:12:38,679 will focus on the transition of materialistic value to that 206 00:12:38,799 --> 00:12:43,240 of an authentic storyteller. The ice storms, a record setting 207 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:46,799 eleven inches of snow, the fear of walking to the 208 00:12:46,799 --> 00:12:54,000 gravesite to find nothing, the resurrection, faith, hope, forgiveness and discovery. 209 00:12:54,639 --> 00:12:57,240 What lessons will the writing instrument bring back to the 210 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:02,360 surface of walking forward? Let it rise above our tears.