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.
Welcome back to the forest. I often wonder if the
free spirited deer, the dough the fawn, the bucks, if
they ever look at Jazzy and I Jazzy Appointer and
they look at her on this leash, and they think
inside their hearts, their deer hearts, we need to free
that girl so she can roam like we do all
day and all night. Because I know she's probably fed
once in the morning, once at night. But it's the
deer population. We can feed at any time. We can
walk through any yard, we can jump any fence, we
can be in this forest. But I do wonder if
the deer see us with our dogs and think they're trapped,
how can we free that animal? Sure we'll probably have
to run a little bit faster because they don't understand
our language and we're so different than the dog. But
to see a dog on a leash walking through this forest,
it seems so mean when they could just be as
free as we are. The dough, the fawn, the bucks,
the deer population. Hey, thanks for being a part of
the conversation.