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Enjoy your exploration. My name is Erro. Do you believe
in resurrections? I mean they happen every day? But are
you willing to listen, to participate, to explore and find
newer ways to understand? This podcast isn't about what we
study and see through the eyes of religion. My boy
boy Ernie spoke with me each chance we had together.
But this isn't about resurrecting a spiritual brother of nearly
thirty four years. This resurrection is that of a writing instrument,
verbal documentation of what some may call a vision quest.
Trusting the great mysteries of life. Tools are handed to
us to carve out each expectation. This tool was laid
to rest inside a forest to experience the elements of
reality while connecting with a universe that unconditionally shares its stories,
But who's writing it? Welcome to the Resurrection.
Speaker 2: March sixteenth, twenty twenty six. A storm has moved to
the southeast. They said it would bring down trees. They
said the winds would be high, they said the rains
would be torrential. There were tornado warnings, and you know,
we all embraced, but did we really embrace Because on
this date, the very lay of land where my boy
boy Ernie is resting, a tree has fallen not only
on his place and his space of peace, but it's
fallen on the house in this very place. What are
the chances that this one moment, this one little area
would serve as some sort of magnet to bring down
a tree. It has fallen onto the my boy boy
Ernie garden as well as the house, and the damage
is there. And so it's one of those where I
just want to go take the writing instrument which has
been placed next to the writing desk and bring it
out here so that it too can be a part
of this because many stories are going to be written
about that day. The tree came down in the very
place that my boy boy Ernie is resting, and maybe
maybe this could be like his home inside our home.
And he was just looking for a new place to climb,
and he thought, well, I'm tired of walking over to
the tree. Why don't we just move the roots of
the tree and bring it over here a little bit closer.
In this I can just climb up, because that's just
what parrots do. Because I am a blue crown conure
could be. But we are in a freaky place, of
all places, inside this beautiful forest in South Charlotte. This
is where the tree came down. Really, we are back
at the site of my boy boy Ernie, where he
has been laid to rest, and where the writing instrument,
the my boy boy writing instrument was placed for thirty
four days. There's a lot of destruction inside where Ernie
is laid, and the tree has been removed that fell
onto the area. But the marks that are in the
soil are not that that would have been caused by
the falling tree. There's a lot of digging here. I
can see evidence of deer. I can see the deer tracks.
I can see that a lot of animals have come
into this area. But it's the digging that has my attention.
Because it's right in the area where my boy boy
Ernie is, And it's like, I don't want to take
anything natural away from the storyline, But what I want
to do is I want to understand it a lot better.
I've been doing a lot of research on this, and
what I've learned is that animals dig around burial sites
mostly because their senses tell them that something is in there,
not because they understand that it's a grave. It's just
that something is in there. Do I think it's a dog.
I don't think it's a dog. It's too tiny to
be a dog, because I know how my dog would
be Jazzy the disaster artist, and she would totally dig
things up. But a lot of these animals have a
powerful sense of smell. We're talking about foxes, raccoons, coyotes.
As things start to decay inside the ground, these animals
are drawn to this area and they leave their marks
on top of the soil instinct not intention. To scavengers,
the smell of the decomposing body sends off a signal,
and this is really true for animals wired for evolution
to locate the actual dead animal. And it's like, I
keep thinking one of these days, I'm going to walk
out here and Ernie, with his beautiful, beautiful home to
which he was planted within, it's going to be dug up.
I mean, that is my real, honest to God fear.
But what's happening is is that nature is very curious
right now, and nature is being very territorial. And the
thing is is that I also have to remind myself
that the soil is softer, and this really does invite
a lot of animals to this area. Shadow burial grounds
make it easier for animals to kind of get in there,
find that scent, and locate the actual origin of where
things are going. You cannot prevent any of this from
taking place. If there is something they want to deal
with with, they're gonna dig down three to four inches deep.
And that's exactly what they have done with my boy
boy Ernie in this one area where I know he's
there because I'm the one who buried him there. So
what they're suggesting is is that I place a large
rock or concrete slab over the area just to keep
the animals away. I'm a naturalist. I can't do that.
I just don't have it in my heart to do
something like that. For instance, not even six or seven
feet from where Ernie is currently overlooking this forest, there
is a chunk of a building. It was once the
county courthouse in Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, that was
built back in nineteen twenty five. I got my hands
on this because I went to the actual destruction site
and got this from the workers that were on site,
and I brought it home because I believe in preserving history.
But there's been this calling for the past two or
three weeks now that has said plant this gigantic chunk
of a building that once was over Ernie. And my
heart is saying no, no, And that's why I'm going
against this, even though research shows that this is what
we should do to help preserve this. The behavior of
these animals is completely natural and not a sign of
aggression or disturbance. It is biology doing what biology does. Now,
here's the thing that they suggest, if I want, I
can explain which animals in the area can do less
or more, if I want to do more research on this.
And I don't think that's where we are. Because as
we grow closer and closer to the thirty fourth day
of the writing instrument being where Ernie once once lived,
inside what we call the mansion, overlooking the forest. Maybe
things will calm down, But right now, this area where
my boy boy Ernie is, the animals are restless and
it's very physical.
Speaker 1: The resurrection, It's a true story. Learn more about this
forest and my boy boy Ernie on Arrow dot Net,
a re dot net. His story, his journey a new
path with the Writing Instrument are available on the podcast
The Lyrics from Ernie's Forest. Future episodes of this podcast
will focus on the transition of materialistic value to that
of an authentic storyteller. The ice storms, a record setting
eleven inches of snow, The fear of walking to the
gravesite to find nothing, The resurrection, faith, hope, forgiveness and discovery.
What lessons will the Writing Instrument bring back to the
surface of walking forward? Let it rise above our tears.