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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Thirty One Three Crosses Suddenly Appear · 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. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know where to be in here, because what's odd is
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  Speaker 1: that for almost six months, my boy boy Ernie has
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  Speaker 1: been resting in there. This writing instrument has been coming
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  Speaker 1: into the ground out of the ground because I want
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  Speaker 1: to capture the essence of all four seasons and then
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  Speaker 1: maybe I will use the writing instrument for the very
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  Speaker 1: first time. And what's happened is it's inspired me to
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  Speaker 1: plant other writing instruments around the Carolinas in the way
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  Speaker 1: of hopefully another author writer thinker planner discovering it one
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  Speaker 1: day while walking down a trail and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what is this a writing instrument in the soil? And
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  Speaker 1: if you think that's odd, this one's even bigger. Today,
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  Speaker 1: while going over into the area to share my respect
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  Speaker 1: and love for my boy boy of thirty four years,
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  Speaker 1: Ernie on top of the soil. Now, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind that we are currently in the worst
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  Speaker 1: drought conditions since two thousand and eight. It's twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six now, the worst drought conditions in eighteen years. Everything
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  Speaker 1: is rock hard dry. I walk out into the forest
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  Speaker 1: today and what do I see? Three crosses, three metal
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  Speaker 1: crosses that I do what next to my boy boy,
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  Speaker 1: Ernie back in January of twenty twenty five, next to
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  Speaker 1: him three feet or more in the soil of this forest,
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  Speaker 1: in the ground, the worst drought conditions in eighteen years.
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  Speaker 1: No shovel has gone into where Ernie is now. I
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  Speaker 1: have retrieved the writing instrument, but that's over here to
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  Speaker 1: the left. But the crosses we're here on the right
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  Speaker 1: side with Ernie. I walk out there today, no breaking
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  Speaker 1: of the ground, no dirt cloths, no marks of a shovel,
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  Speaker 1: rock hard soil from the drought, and all three crosses
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  Speaker 1: are right there on top of the soil. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: help me with this. I don't know what to do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to say, but this is why we
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  Speaker 1: call this four stories. Not just my forest, but all
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  Speaker 1: forces the ground is instantly and always speaking to those
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  Speaker 1: who are willing to listen. But you have got to
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  Speaker 1: put yourself in a position of that to share the
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  Speaker 1: story of things like this, because this is not happening
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  Speaker 1: for the very first time. I just now have a
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  Speaker 1: page that's going to spend years trying to explain it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for being a part of the conversation.