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

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is for 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.

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Welcome back to the forest. The Neighborhood Book Library, I

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think almost every neighborhood has one those little boxes that

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have a a frame style roof on them, and inside

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you put the books in them that you've read so

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that you can share the word forward. Our neighborhood Library

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has been with us four or five years. John and

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Page were the first ones to kind of invite it

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into the neighborhood. And John came with strict rules. It's

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only books that you have read, because they know that

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I talked to all these authors and I have these

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other books that I have that are brand spanking new.

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But He's says, you know, the space is limited. Only

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put books in there that you have read. Well, it's

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going to change. Fred and Lisa are putting up a

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new book library for the neighborhood, and they said it's

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gonna look nicer because this one has been weathered by

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so many Southern storms and winters that it's time to

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just let it go. So a new library is coming,

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but I wonder if it's going to come with those rules.

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But it's got to be filled with books that you've

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already read. Well, I kind of read them. I do

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the research that I talk with the authors. Am I

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really such a rule breaker? Or maybe I should be

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a rule breaker and just go ahead and put them

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in there. I mean, there's a lot of great books,

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but I have to play by the rules to keep

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peace on the streets. But it's happening, the evolution of

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the neighborhood library. Hey, thanks for being a part of

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the conversation.