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Enjoy your exploration. My name is Erro. Do you believe

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in resurrections? I mean they happen every day? But are

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you willing to listen, to participate, to explore and find

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newer ways to understand? This podcast isn't about what we

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study and see through the eyes of religion. My boy

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boy Ernie spoke with me each chance we had together.

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But this isn't about resurrecting a spiritual brother of nearly

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thirty four years. This resurrection is that of a writing instrument,

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verbal documentation of what some may call a vision quest.

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Trusting the great mysteries of life. Tools are handed to

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us to carve out each expectation. This tool was laid

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to rest inside a forest to experience the elements of

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reality while connecting with a universe that unconditionally shares its stories,

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But who's writing it. Welcome to the Resurrection.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the forest. Who the morning after? It

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doesn't matter what podcasts you listen to when it comes

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to things that have flowed through the presence of the

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universe which I belong with and share with. We have

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talked about Ernie so many different times. In fact, one

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of my podcasts is called the Lyrics from Ernie's Forest,

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And many times during these podcasts I've spoken why about

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this beautiful, beautiful little music maker that we have been

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together for nearly thirty four years. Thirty four years, and

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this is the first time that I have entered this

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forest without him next to me. Ernie, Oh my god,

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his home overlooked this forest. Every day Ernie would stare

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out there at that lake, the slow moving stream, the

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tall grass. Anytime a deer, a buck, a hawk, an owl,

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a cardinal, a squirrel would jump in front of the window.

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We were twenty three feet above the ground, twenty three

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feet above that forest floor. Ernie sees movement and he

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lets the world know there's somebody out there, there's something

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that's going on. I just want you to know a human.

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I got your back because that's what birds do. I'm

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not your normal bird. I'm Ernie. I'm Ernie the bird.

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I'm just I'm not your normal bird. I'm Ernie. That's right.

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Anybody who came anywhere in your Ernie, they knew they

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really is something special because he would come up and

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talk to you, he would make sounds, he would make

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you laugh. It was if he was a human being

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that was stuffed inside a tiny, little green body. And

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that's all I've got left right now is that tiny body,

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but the spirit of Ernie. The exact words that I

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shared this morning with my wife was that he has

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given me so much information to write about for decades

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to come. That's what he did in our thirty four

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years together. And for the first time ever moving into

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this home, into this forest thirty three years ago, it's

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the first time that I have been in this forest

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without knowing, without Ernie being at home waiting for me

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to come back to share with him the stories that

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I picked up along the way from the other creations

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inside this collection of trees in South Charlotte. So it's

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going to be very interesting to write, to continue to

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build upon, to know that the spirit of Ernie with

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the lyrics and this forest are going to be very

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very very much present as well as outreaching. Because here's

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the thing about it, none of us are ever none

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of us go into this world without experiencing loss. And

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the way that Ernie and I have discussed this for

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a very very long time is that it's not going

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to be a loss. It's going to be a transition,

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a walk, a new way to look at, things to

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build upon, and a savor. Ernie came into my life

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during some extremely dark times. Ernie knew that he had

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his hands full when he would look at me and say,

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oh God, okay, here we go again. What song do

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you want me to do today? What do I need

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to do to get you out of a mindset that

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is so dark that most people couldn't make it this far.

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One of the greatest things that Ernie ever did, honestly,

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is that you would open up a bottle of soda

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or pop as we called it in the North. You

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would open it up and it has that little bit

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of a sh kind of a vibe about it, and

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Ernie would go as if he was burping, And every time,

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thirty four years of a little girl monkey burping away

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are the second the phone rings Hello, Hello, Hello, six

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o'clock in the morning, even three and four o'clock when

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you're walking through the house searching for that bathroom to

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pn good morning, good morning. That was my little man,

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which we're going to write about and talk about for

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many years to come because this is Ernie's forced, these

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lyrics belong to him. Today's pretty much the inside view

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of the insanity that a creative mind puts itself through

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losing my really really close friend Ernie, because of the

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lyrics from Ernie's forst is his forest, this is where

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he was laid to rest. I'm the daily writer that

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symbolizes his life or legacy by way of the writing

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instruments that I have collected, and many of them have

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been dedicated to those that have been so amazingly close

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to my soul. I've always said that the words come

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from his collection of trees. Well, you have to have

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a writing instrument that is willing to listen to the

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universe that surrounds this collection of trees. In not losing

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my very very good friend, my boy boy, Ernie, a

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blue crown conyer, I didn't lose him. It's part of

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the continuation. Now, easily I could have gone into anybody

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that sells a writing instrument, not a pen, a writing

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instrument and gather something that kind of look like my

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boy boy, Ernie. But it has to go further than that.

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Thirty four years we have spent together, Ernie and I,

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and something very special inside my heart spoke to me said,

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you will not keep the ashes of your boy boy, Ernie.

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You're going to give him the force that he stared

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into and helped you write about for thirty four years.

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And so his resting place, or his place of continuation

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is here. I have the writing instrument. It's spelled TWSBI.

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It comes from Taiwan. And what the TWSBI stands for,

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you don't listen for it for the pronunciation of the

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actual lettering of that we are taught as Americans. The

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letters themselves tell the story, and that is twizz B

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tws bi a twizz B. But here's where the insanity

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of the daily writer comes into play. I'm going to

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lay this writing instrument next to Ernie, beneath the surface

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of the forest floor. Now it belongs to the boy boy.

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I'm presently at the site of my boy boy already

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the blue ground. Conye. Wow, the last time I touched

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the dirt beneath the surface like this was the day

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that we shared him back with the universe. It's very

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odd for me to be going right back into the

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place where my boy Boy's body is in a beautiful,

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beautiful place that is so comfortable. There's so many things

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that are in there. The writing instrument has been placed

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into the forest floor and I am now placing dirt

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on top of it. The writing instrument will stay inside

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the earth for a total of three days, three days

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because of my spiritual beliefs that number three is a

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very powerful number. It is now inside the earth. It

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is now laying next to my blue crown Conye of

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thirty four years inside this forest. It is now beneath

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the surface of the forest floor. The two are now connected.

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Stepping outside to a brand new morning the forest where

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my boy boy Ernie writing instrument presently is resting next

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to the beautiful creation from the heavens that was a

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part of my life for nearly thirty four years. It

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is freezing out here. It's barely thirty two degrees and

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I'm standing at that site where it has remained completely covered.

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This is day number two, morning number two of the

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sun is coming out. I don't know if you can

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hear the wind blowing. It rained all day yesterday, which

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the creative side of me and the carrying side of

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me wanted to come out here and not only record

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the moment. But I was so afraid of the compassionate

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itself inside me that I was going to take the

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boy Boy Ernie writing instrument indoors because inside my heart

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and inside my wallet, I was thinking, how how much

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did you spend for that? And you're putting it in

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the ground where it's raining as hard as it is.

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This is stupid, dude, This is stupid, And yet the

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writer within is going, this is not stupid. Your little boy,

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my boy boy Ernie watched this forest for nearly thirty

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four years. He is in this forest and every time

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that you hold this writing instrument, it laid next to

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my boy boy Ernie. Day number two, with the my

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boy boy Ernie writing instrument sitting next to who has

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inspired me, influenced me, empowered me, my boy boy Ernie,

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There's gonna be a change in the plans. I am

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so associated with the number three because of the numerology,

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the universe and everything else that's connected to the number three.

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But something is going to take place in the next

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twenty four to forty eight hours. Inside this beautiful forest

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in South charlott there's talk of snow. Oh yeah, fluffy

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white snow. The writing instrument my boy Boy Ernie is

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supposed to come back to me tomorrow on a Saturday,

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but the snow is supposed to arrive on Sunday. So

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I've asked the universe, can it stay in the soil

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next to Ernie just a few extra hours. I would

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love for the rest of my life to carry the

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story of a writing instrument that laid next to my inspiration,

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my empowerment, and my walk in life of thirty four

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years to include that of some of the iciest, coldest weather.

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I don't know what it's like to live inside the ground.

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I don't know what it's like to be on a

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rainy day, and nor do I know what it's like

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to be beneath a layer of snow. But this writing

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instrument will as it feels its way back to the

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poet in the.

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Speaker 1: Forest The Resurrection. It's a true story. Learn more about

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this forest and my boy boy Ernie on arrow dot net,

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a r re dot Net. His story, his journey a

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new path with the Writing Instrument are available on the

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podcast The Lyrics from Ernie's Forest. Future episodes of this

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podcast will focus on the transition of materialistic value to

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that of an authentic storyteller. The ice storms, a record

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setting eleven inches of snow, The fear of walking to

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the gravesite to find nothing, the resurrection, faith, hope, forgiveness

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and discovery. What lessons will the Writing Instrument bring back

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to the surface of walking forward? Let it rise above

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our tears.