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Speaker 1: There is so much going on on arrow dot net

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aarr oe dot net. If you're like me when it

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comes to podcast listening, I want a variety. So that's

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why we created this network Arrow dot net. We're talking sports, ya,

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author's spiritual quests, even grocery store nightmares. Arrow dot net

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a r oe dot Net. Enjoy your exploration. My boy

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boy Ernie a Blue Crown conyer. For over thirty two years,

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he and I have overlooked this forest right here in

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South Charlotte, North Carolina. I mean every day, Ernie and

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I sit here in this beautiful home, overlooking the trees,

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the nearby lake, and every bit the wildlife that is

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peacefully strolling on the land below. Ernie and I share

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the same vision. It's this forest. We both look into

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the trees and study the earth below. There's absolutely something

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very spiritual going on here. The lyrics to Ernie's Forest,

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I mean, we both receive an amazing amount of energy.

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I put all of my trust in skills as a

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student into what he is willing to share with me.

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A bird by the name of Ernie. These aren't my words,

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these are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest, chapter number four

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hundred thirty two June fifteenth, twenty twenty four. It's kind

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of odd to my heart to know that the history

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of this forest is so readily unavailable to study, only

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that a single family owned it, and it was once

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considered to be far, far, far out into the country.

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My soul wants to call the area a pocket forest,

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almost like the landscape of North Carolina's mountains, all of

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those beautiful, jagged, rocky edges with an array of trees,

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plus a billion homes overlooking the scene. The same is

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true about this forest, rainbow forest, all things wild, and

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yet so much of it has been tamed. Maybe it's

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just me. There's a lot to learn from allowing this

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forest to just breathe. The hills rolled like that of

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a true Southern accent. You'll lose your breath walking up heartbreak, heell,

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and on winter mornings, Ivy Lake will take even more

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air from your lungs. A pocket forest, all of this nature,

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with the human stuff somewhere in between. I do wonder

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if I'm the only one listening. How selfish is that?

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I mean, the bee keeper just right over there inside

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this forest, he's got to be hearing things just like me.

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Why is it. We tend to be that way that

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we locate these places of inner peace, solitude, gratefulness, and

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we have this vision of growing forward. But for some reason,

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we don't look outward for other people that are feeling

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the same exact thing. For instance, when I visit the

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Grand Tetons in Wyoming, do we ever stand around with

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people from Norway or even Japan and we ask them, well,

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what's your interpretation and what did you feel? How about

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when you go to Denver, Colorado, or Atlanta, Georgia, even

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when you're up in New York City at ground zero,

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do you ever take the time to say, so, what

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are you feeling in this moment of now? What is

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your energy level clocked in at? We don't ask those questions.

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We just assume, well, I must be the only one

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that's experiencing this. How selfish is that if we don't

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start sharing our individual stories, then it becomes lopsided. Here's

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a better example. I come from a family of eight children.

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Eight of us have eight different interpretations of who our

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parents were. If you sit us down to ask us

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questions about the parents and about the kids that grew

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from them, you'll never get the same answer. It's eight

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different stories. But if you don't listen to the stories,

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then you're missing out on something. Not only that So

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is your great great great grandchild who you'll never meet.

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But because we didn't talk about the stories, they'll never

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hear them. I Maril, these are not my words. These

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are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest.