Arroe Unplugged Page Two Thousand Three Hundred Ninety One The Lyrics From Ernies Forest

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
Ernie is a Blue Crown conyer. For over thirty years,
he's overlooked this forest right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina.
Every day, Ernie sits in his beautiful home, overlooking the trees,

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the nearby lake, and every bit of the wildlife. Strolling
through such an amazing piece of land. Ernie and I
share one thing, the forest. We both look at the
trees and study the earth below. There's something very spiritual
here the lyrics to Ernie's Forest. We both receive an
amazing amount of positive energy. I put all of my
trust and skills inside this student and what he's so

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willing to share with me. These aren't my words, These
are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest, Chapter number four hundred four,
December twenty third, twenty twenty three. This is my thirty
first Christmas in this tiny little forest in South Charlotte,
North Carolina. Many of these trees were here long before me.
Their limbs noticeably fell this past season. The poet inside

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has enormous inner feelings of how nature moves at its
own pace. A year after sprouting my first wings and
or dear antlers in this forest, my wife and I
shared our wedding vows next to the slow moving stream.
So many people gathered in this tiny little place next
to a lake heavily protected by naturally grown trees that
which hold more stories than my daily books of writing

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my thirty first Christmas. Inside Ernie's Forest, we have seen
plenty of snow, hardcore rain, a lot of windy days
and nights, and plenty of all other living things that
are scampering around like little children, never once feeling old
or bored with the beauty of such a tiny little
forest and everything that it holds while being so incredibly
unknown to the rest of the world. Ernie's Forest. One

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of the reasons why I wanted to even choose to
write this story was because if we don't share the story,
then you're going to feel in the future what I
felt in my past, in the way of going, look
at all of these beautiful trees. What's its story? It's
not available, nobody's ever written about it, nobody's ever talked
about it. What they've done, is they've built upon it,

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and from that comes other people's stories. But we really
don't see each other as a community in this area
or work together to help find the right stories. And
that's what I want to do here is I want
to invite you to take your piece, inside your heart
and inside your thoughts and find the story so that
those in the future can have something to hold on to. Yes,

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I've got thirty two years of daily writing. It's my story.
Do I think anybody wants to know it? Not? Really?
But what if at least we have bread crumbs that
will lead to the story. And that's my challenge for you.
Find the bread crumbs and leave them for those that
are waiting to meet you. I'm maryl. These aren't my words.

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These are the lyrics from Earth in his Forest.