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Speaker 1: You want variety to what you listen to while you're

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driving to work, or hanging out at the office, or

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even just being at home all by yourself. Arrow dot

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net a r Oe dot Net. It's not always about

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talking with rockstars and movie stars. There is so much more.

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Arrow dot net Aarre dot net. Ernie is a Blue

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Crown conyre. For over thirty two years, he and I

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have overlooked this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina.

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I mean, every day, the two of us sit here

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in this beautiful forest, overlooking the trees, nearby lake and

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every bit the wildlife strolling through such an amazing piece

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of land. Ernie and I share the same vision. It's

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this forest. We both look into those trees and study

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the earth below. There's something very spiritual going on here.

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It's the lyrics to Ernie's Forest. We both receive an

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amazing amount of energy. I put all of my trust

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and skills as a student into what he is willing

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to share with me. I mean to see the two

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of us together by God in heaven. These aren't my words,

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

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twenty three April twentieth twenty twenty four. I love spending

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spring inside this forest, from the winds carrying brand new

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seeds to the early morning and late afternoon rains that

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really do feed the roots of these skyscraping trees. Who

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would have ever thought there'd be so many different shades

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of green. I mean, only weeks ago, all of this

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was bear like that of a skeleton in a biology

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class or lab. The rebirth of the forest comes with

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strength as well as empowerment. It helps us believe in rebirth,

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and all that was once felt empty and lost has

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been given another season to showcase. Its a ray of

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hope and beauty. But that's not the entire story. Like

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human life, all that is spring is nurtured by mother Nature,

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and once summertime arrives, all of this art becomes survival mode.

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Oh yeah, Mama Nature is still here, but you've got

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to learn how to grow on your own. The beauty

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and the beast. It's a gift that's given to us

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by way of the universe, learning from it by being

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present when winter becomes spring, when spring becomes summer, And

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how do you act and react when fall sets in

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and everything starts to transition even in your own personal life,

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you are going through every one of these seasonal changes.

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But I believe, inside my soul, and I'm not even

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a professional, I believe we don't have four seasons in

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the human life. I believe we have multiple twenty thirty,

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maybe even fifty. And what I mean by that is

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is that we are constantly moving through mindsets. Transitions is

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what I call them, which is the reason why I

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take a transition walk every single day, just so that

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I can step into the way I am thinking, the

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way that I'm acting, reacting, and trying to replenish this

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life that I basically, you know, ten fifteen minutes ago ruined.

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We all do it. We all sit there and go, goh,

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why did I react like that? Okay, now it's time

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to put new leaves on our trees. These are not

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my words, These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest.