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Speaker 1: Have you stopped by Arrow dot net, Yete dot net.

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It is the power of choice. Twenty different podcasts to

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choose from. One of the biggest ones is CTCs. Oh

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you think you know what's going on inside a grocery store,

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wait until you get the behind the sceness adventures CTCs

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on Arrow dot net, a r Oe dot Net. Enjoy

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your exploration. My boy boy Ernie, he was a Blue

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Crown conyer for over thirty four years. He overlooked this

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forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I mean,

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every day Ernie sat in his beautiful home, overlooking the trees,

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the nearby lake, and every bit the wildlife strolling through

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this amazing piece of history. Ernie and I shared the

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same vision this forest. We both looked into these trees

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and studied the earth below. I mean, there is something

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

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We both received an amazing amount of energy. Now I

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put all my trust and skills as a student into

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what he was willing to share with me. Remember these

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are not my words. These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest,

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Chapter number four hundred thirty six, July sixth twenty twenty four,

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A moment of my past has arrived unexpectedly, those uneducated

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days of planning out a concept of wanting to plant

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seventeen hundred trees within the borders and outside the limits

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of this collection of trees the year nineteen ninety seven

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without prior permission from landowners. What did I do? I

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set out with a huge amount of six inch seedlings

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to put into the furthest thing from what I knew

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as soil. Have you ever walked through a real forest,

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not one tailored by forest rangers and other science projects,

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a real forest. The land is anything but smooth, and

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there's a real threat to your body due to the

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underground rooting system that offers absolutely no footing support above

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which almost feels like the presence of our everyday world,

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I mean, aimlessly. Every one of us walk through this

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forest of politics, rule breakers, decision makers, never realizing the

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next step could actually be straight down into a copper

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heads dean. This forest has taught me so much since

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nineteen ninety two, to watch all living things and to

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never trust a snapping turtle. Walking through a forest, I

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think everybody should do it, not a tailored one from

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a forest farmer, and or somebody doing a science project.

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I'm talking about walking through an authentic forest because it

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is all about awareness. If you don't sharpen your skills

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in understanding the curve, the band, the twist, the ups

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the downs of a forest floor, realizing that that next

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step right there could actually be where a tree stood

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three storms ago. And now what you've got is a hole.

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And you're gonna find your ass in that hole. And

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when you do, how are you getting out? See? Now

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you're facing the world of the difference between sympathy and empathy.

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You know, empathy is gonna be somebody who's gonna say, Okay,

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I'm watching you, where sympathy is I'm gonna push you out. Okay,

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which one are you gonna go to? You're gonna help

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somebody out? Or are you just gonna sit there and say, Okay,

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when you get out of that hole, come see me.

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But walking through an authentic, untouched forest, not humanized, I

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challenge you. I'm Mariyl. These are not my words. These

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are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest.