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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This

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is Forest Stories. I am the Poet in the Forest,

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a children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,

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none of it would be possible if it wasn't for

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

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talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's

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time that you get to know what has inspired me

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for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation, Hey,

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thanks for coming back to the forest. The late summer

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cool breeze has returned to this forest. The leaves are

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starting to dance to tumble from trees, The long grass

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is starting to yellow, and you can hear the water

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in the nearby lake as it slaps the shores with

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not anger, but just love. Love created by the winds

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of change. And that's what we're about, ready to move

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through during this time of season. But it's always fun

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to really pay attention to the changes that slowly happen

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around us. But too many times, once we get in

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our cars, we race off and we don't get to

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see the true creation of fall coming into play. Walking

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through this forest today, that cool breeze, it says a lot.

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I'm seeing a lot of the bee keepers bees out

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here jumping around collecting as much pollen as possible because

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they've got to have that pollen for the colder months

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that are coming ahead. It's just so special. The fawn

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are getting larger, still have their spots in their bottoms,

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but they're getting larger. They're getting more confident. They do

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more than just stand there in fear, wondering what is

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that human stick figure going to do? What can we

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do next? Mom? No, they're running, they're playing, They're being

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themselves inside a forest that's starting to get the end

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of the summer change. It's gonna be fun to watch

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the leaves change. You can never predict what the colors

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are going to be. You can't predict if anything other

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than life it's is going to happen. But you know

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how we are. We all want to add something to

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the story without ever letting it be the story. The

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cool breeze inside this forest as fall says, I'm on

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my way, don't give up on me. I may take

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my time, and then again I might bring you on

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board a lot quicker than you think. Hey, thanks for

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being a part of the conversation.