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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Twenty Seven Let The Children Play · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcasts listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: Arrooe dot net. The searching is over. It's all in
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  Speaker 1: one place. Enjoy the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation. Welcome to foest Stories, a series
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  Speaker 1: of short winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping trees,
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  Speaker 1: stuck feet First and Georgia Clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 1: over thirty three years. I Am the Poet in the Forest,
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  Speaker 1: a children's series written and recorded in the nineteen nineties.
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  Speaker 1: It's grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 1: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina, at the base
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  Speaker 1: of Heartbreak Hills. It's a sign that reads Rainbow Forest. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations
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  Speaker 1: long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 1: around this beautiful lake, slow moving stream, flatland swamps, and
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  Speaker 1: array of natural animals. There were families and business owners
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  Speaker 1: who are said to have raced into this area for
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and
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  Speaker 1: wild grapevines. Those before me either forgot to write about
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  Speaker 1: it or it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for being a part of the conversation. Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the forest. Garrick is maybe six years old. Hannah
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  Speaker 1: is four, brother and sister. We've watched them grow up,
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  Speaker 1: we watched their parents get excited about having a baby,
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  Speaker 1: and here we are now at six and four. I
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  Speaker 1: think one of the most cherishing things that I've seen
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  Speaker 1: so far in their years as a family is when
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  Speaker 1: when I was walking through the forest this morning, very
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  Speaker 1: very cold day. We're all bundled up in jackets, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're always looking for that happy spot, something
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  Speaker 1: that says you're gonna hold onto this for a very
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  Speaker 1: long time. Please enjoy your initial smile now, because later
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  Speaker 1: on in life you're really going to appreciate it. And
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  Speaker 1: this is one of those moments that is you're going
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  Speaker 1: to appreciate it because yesterday, I guess what they were
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  Speaker 1: doing was playing with water and chalk. You know, most
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  Speaker 1: people draw in the sidewalks and in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the street with chalk, and somehow, someway, somebody gave somebody
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  Speaker 1: permission to get the water and the chalk to go
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  Speaker 1: for a slight dance, and what it became was chalk
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  Speaker 1: on your hands. Hannah and Gary six and four took
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  Speaker 1: that chalk in their hands and they must have put
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  Speaker 1: their handprints on their father's car thirty forty times, a black,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful car with all of these choked handprints on it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the artist in me was so excited because my daughter's
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  Speaker 1: bedroom here in the home, we never changed it. Everything
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  Speaker 1: she did as a growing teen, before she stepped into
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  Speaker 1: a pair of adult shoes, before she had two children
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  Speaker 1: of her own. We've never changed her bedroom. It's still
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  Speaker 1: the early part of the nineteen nineties inside her bedroom,
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  Speaker 1: with everything that she did, with the paintings on the wall,
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  Speaker 1: with her real birth father coming in to do different
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  Speaker 1: things on the wall as well, with the different fairies
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  Speaker 1: and the muses and music notes, and her just putting
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  Speaker 1: things on the wall out of angst because there are
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  Speaker 1: some bad words on the wall. But do you think
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  Speaker 1: I want to paint over that. No, because the moments
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  Speaker 1: that I just saw over here with Garrick and Hannah,
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  Speaker 1: and that is their handprints on their father's car. I
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  Speaker 1: knew the joy that I get when I walk into
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  Speaker 1: Jenny's room and I relive those moments that I'm never
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  Speaker 1: going to get back. But we preserved that snapshot in time.
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  Speaker 1: Let the kids play. Thanks for in a part of
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  Speaker 1: the conversation,