The Lyrics From Ernie's Forest Chapter 449 The Forest Is Going To Eat Us Up

We rarely speak of the before effects of an everyday world. We'll spend hours and endless amounts of money on the repair but hardly if ever on the steps leading toward.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It really is about having fun, exploring, and finding things
out that you didn't know so you can say, oh, wow,
I can't wait to share this. It's what we do
on Arrow.net, 21 different podcasts, A-R-R-O-E.net. One of our big
ones right now is a thing called Music's Lost History.
You know the music, you know the artists, but can

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you name them if I give you the hints? Name
them before we share them with you. Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E.net. Enjoy
your exploration. Ernie was my blue crown conure. For over
34 years, he and I overlooked this forest right here
in South Charlotte, North Carolina. I mean, every day. Ernie

(00:43):
would sit in his beautiful home overlooking the trees, the
nearby lake, and every bit the wildlife, which was always
just strolling around so peacefully upon Mother Earth. Ernie and
I shared the same vision. It's this forest. We both
looked into these trees and studied the earth below. I mean,
there is something very spiritual about this forest. The lyrics

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from Ernie's forest. We both received an amazing amount of energy,
and I put all my trust and skills as a
student into what he was willing to share with me.
Have you ever done that? Sat down and just listened
to something as simple as as a bird, and you
begin to see things that your eye says, that doesn't exist,
and yet in his eyes, it did. These are my words.

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These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest. Today, we're reading
from September 28th, 2024, chapter number 449. It's becoming more
and more common to fall witness to this thing called
climate change. It used to be that one thing that
science warned us of if we didn't start making better
choices in life. Well, guess who did not listen and

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look at who's paying the price today? Tropical storm Helene
came from out of nowhere, taking fewer days to tear
us completely apart once again. This is September 28th, 2024.
Today's date is September 2nd, 2026. So two years have

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gone by. And when I say Helene, I'm talking about
this is what happened to the Carolinas before Helene went
up into the mountains and wreaked havoc. So right here
in my own forest, this is what I'm talking about.
How things were challenged before it took on its greatest destruction.

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Did we really have the required time to prepare for Helene?
Many were like me. Ah, the weather people, what the
hell do they know? We'll be okay. And then Helene hit.
The trees in this forest were thrown in every direction,
while the raging waters below ripped from the forest floor
all it could have in the name of trying to

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hold on to whatever it could. But it was impossible
in this forest. The day after, So much of Mother
Nature's anger, the roar of generators trying to create power,
keeping the human ear from peacefully trying to replenish their mind, body,
and soul. Our neighbor Betty said it best. One day,

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this forest is going to eat us up. Now, we
know what happened to everything beyond this part of North Carolina, right?
The destruction that is still very visible and physical today
in the mountains and what it did and who disappeared.
But there's always a story before the story. And that's

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where a lot of attention is missed. A lot of
lessons are missed. And I physically ask this, why were
we not ready for this? And in any situation, good, bad, ugly,
in the middle, over the top, somewhere around the potential
of this being based upon, We always throw it on

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something else. Oh, you know how they are. They say
this and that, but they really don't mean that and this.
And all of a sudden, boom, it hits. And you're
left with one thing. A poet with a pen. Who
was I listening to? This forest. The very one that

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I call Ernie's Forest. And to this day, when you
walk out into this forest... You're going to see remnants
of Hugo from the latter part of the 1980s. And
now there's remnants of Helene. I almost feel like there's
a lesson here. But what is it? Is it understanding

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the true concept of not being able to control nature?
that it is much bigger than what we are. And
no matter how much smarter we're getting with technology, we
still can't predict Mother Nature. And even if the weathermen
and women are sitting there strenuously sharing with us to

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be prepared, we're missing out on the art of listening.
But we would rather react when all is said and done.
And that's the lesson there. What are we doing so
that forests like this don't do as Betty says? It's
going to eat us up. These are not my words.

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These are the lyrics from Ernie's Forest.