Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation. This
is Forest Stories. I'm 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. It's going to be changing.
In the days I had the city, the county, so
many different people have been coming out into this forest
and marking everything up. What we don't see beneath the
surface is what somebody needs to see. Because AT and
T has coming in to lay down their fiber. It's
gonna be very different, only because they're going to interrupt
the land. And you know, me, the forest floor is
so important, but everything is so marked up, and from
where I stand right now in the forest, those giant
trucks are here with their large spools of fiber. Every
bit of this forest is going to go through a disruption.
And the reason why is because the land is connected
to everything. Even with me standing maybe a quarter mile
from the lake, the lions in the land, which will
point the way for these fiber people to make sure
that they don't hit things that we can't see beneath
the surface. It's all going to be connected, it's all
going to feel the vibration of the moment, and then
you have to ask the question of how long will
it take to recover? But this is kind of an
interesting day and I want to document it in the
way of telling the history of the forest, and this
is part of it. What we don't see beneath the
surface of the forest floor, these guys will because they're
going inside it and they're going to disrupt what's in there,
from the insect to maybe the sleeping toads. What about
the turtles, where do they go during the winter months.
The forest will be affected and it's going to be
very interesting to find out if the vibration changes. Hey,
thanks for being a part of the conversation.