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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Forty Two Owls Too Many Thoughts · 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 Forest 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. I was greeted by the two owls
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I love my owls. The way they look at you, like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing a human? Really, you're still doing that? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: What kind of knowledge do you need, because we're willing
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  Speaker 2: to share it with you. Just owls are just so confident.
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  Speaker 2: They're filled with this type of courage that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the human being kind of stares at them and wishes
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  Speaker 2: and wonders what it would be like to be able
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  Speaker 2: to be in a suit of armor, just like the
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  Speaker 2: owl and the way it sits. There, two of them
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  Speaker 2: just looking at me, and they would do their little
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  Speaker 2: grunting sounds. Slowly turn around to find out what the
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  Speaker 2: squirrels were doing. Maybe even take notes of what the
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  Speaker 2: cardinal was dancing around, and just please, whatever you do,
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  Speaker 2: make sure you don't call in the crows, because the
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  Speaker 2: crow does not like the owl. They don't get along.
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  Speaker 2: And suddenly we find ourselves having these little summits to
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  Speaker 2: try to find peace inside this forest. But what's really
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  Speaker 2: interesting about these owls is that they do teach you
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  Speaker 2: one thing, be an observer. Just sit back and let
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  Speaker 2: time no longer be your guide. Let the presence of
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  Speaker 2: all things right now be that one thing that creates
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  Speaker 2: your next decision. And that's what I learned from the
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  Speaker 2: owl and their flight. Does it ever look like an
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  Speaker 2: owl is in a rush? Never? Never, It's always a
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  Speaker 2: smooth flight to a destination the human will never be
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  Speaker 2: able to predict. But that owl's eyesight and keen sense
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  Speaker 2: of hearing gives it the opportunity to step into that
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  Speaker 2: flight and bring things to life that the human could
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  Speaker 2: never become a part of because the human could easily
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  Speaker 2: step into it. But even a turtle will run from
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  Speaker 2: the presence of the big, fat, ugly looking foot stuffed
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  Speaker 2: into that leather shoe worn by the human. But it
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  Speaker 2: was so fascinating to step into the forest today and
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  Speaker 2: right there in front of me, mainly because my deck
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  Speaker 2: is twenty three feet off the forest floor, so it
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  Speaker 2: puts us up in the trees. So the owls are
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  Speaker 2: still looking at me, going really, really, you couldn't have
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  Speaker 2: done like everybody else and just kept it down there,
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  Speaker 2: give us a little bit of privacy up here, but
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  Speaker 2: you didn't want to do that here. Now now, I
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  Speaker 2: want to be with you. I want to be with
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  Speaker 2: the hummingbirds. I want to be with the blue jays.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be with the blue birds and everything
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  Speaker 2: that stands this tall inside this gorgeous forest. And of
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  Speaker 2: course the owl looks at me the way that owls do,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, oh God, such a drama queen. Why
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  Speaker 2: do poets always have to be drama queens? My owls
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  Speaker 2: in this forest, and maybe they're saying that pain the human.
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  Speaker 2: But then there's a side of me that goes, m
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  Speaker 2: we really do have a forest relationship. Hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being a part of the conversation.