Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This
is for stories. I am the Poet in the Forest,
a children's series that I pinned out in the nineteen nineties. Now,
none of it would be possible if it wasn't for
this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I
talk about it so much that I thought maybe it's
time that you get to know what has inspired me
for thirty years. Thanks for being a part of the conversation.
Welcome back to the forest. The Neighborhood Book Library, I
think almost every neighborhood has one those little boxes that
have a a frame style roof on them, and inside
you put the books in them that you've read so
that you can share the word forward. Our neighborhood Library
has been with us four or five years. John and
Page were the first ones to kind of invite it
into the neighborhood. And John came with strict rules. It's
only books that you have read, because they know that
I talked to all these authors and I have these
other books that I have that are brand spanking new.
But He's says, you know, the space is limited. Only
put books in there that you have read. Well, it's
going to change. Fred and Lisa are putting up a
new book library for the neighborhood, and they said it's
gonna look nicer because this one has been weathered by
so many Southern storms and winters that it's time to
just let it go. So a new library is coming,
but I wonder if it's going to come with those rules.
But it's got to be filled with books that you've
already read. Well, I kind of read them. I do
the research that I talk with the authors. Am I
really such a rule breaker? Or maybe I should be
a rule breaker and just go ahead and put them
in there. I mean, there's a lot of great books,
but I have to play by the rules to keep
peace on the streets. But it's happening, the evolution of
the neighborhood library. Hey, thanks for being a part of
the conversation.