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your exploration. My boy boy Ernie, he was a Blue
Crown conyer for over thirty four years. He overlooked this
forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I mean,
every day Ernie sat in his beautiful home, overlooking the trees,
the nearby lake, and every bit the wildlife strolling through
this amazing piece of history. Ernie and I shared the
same vision this forest. We both looked into these trees
and studied the earth below. I mean, there is something
physically spiritual going on here. The lyrics to Ernie's Forest.
We both received an amazing amount of energy. Now I
put all my trust and skills as a student into
what he was willing to share with me. Remember these
are not my words. These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest,
Chapter number four hundred thirty six, July sixth twenty twenty four,
A moment of my past has arrived unexpectedly, those uneducated
days of planning out a concept of wanting to plant
seventeen hundred trees within the borders and outside the limits
of this collection of trees the year nineteen ninety seven
without prior permission from landowners. What did I do? I
set out with a huge amount of six inch seedlings
to put into the furthest thing from what I knew
as soil. Have you ever walked through a real forest,
not one tailored by forest rangers and other science projects,
a real forest. The land is anything but smooth, and
there's a real threat to your body due to the
underground rooting system that offers absolutely no footing support above
which almost feels like the presence of our everyday world,
I mean, aimlessly. Every one of us walk through this
forest of politics, rule breakers, decision makers, never realizing the
next step could actually be straight down into a copper
heads dean. This forest has taught me so much since
nineteen ninety two, to watch all living things and to
never trust a snapping turtle. Walking through a forest, I
think everybody should do it, not a tailored one from
a forest farmer, and or somebody doing a science project.
I'm talking about walking through an authentic forest because it
is all about awareness. If you don't sharpen your skills
in understanding the curve, the band, the twist, the ups
the downs of a forest floor, realizing that that next
step right there could actually be where a tree stood
three storms ago. And now what you've got is a hole.
And you're gonna find your ass in that hole. And
when you do, how are you getting out? See? Now
you're facing the world of the difference between sympathy and empathy.
You know, empathy is gonna be somebody who's gonna say, Okay,
I'm watching you, where sympathy is I'm gonna push you out. Okay,
which one are you gonna go to? You're gonna help
somebody out? Or are you just gonna sit there and say, Okay,
when you get out of that hole, come see me.
But walking through an authentic, untouched forest, not humanized, I
challenge you. I'm Mariyl. These are not my words. These
are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest.