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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Forty Nine Let Things Go And Or Grow · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, when it comes to podcast listening, are you like me?
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  Speaker 1: the exploration. Hey, thanks for being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Four Stories.
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  Speaker 2: A series of short-winded adventures within a collection of skyscraping
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  Speaker 2: trees stuck feet first in Georgia clay right here in Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a huge part of my daily journey for
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  Speaker 2: over 33 years. I am the poet in the forest,
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  Speaker 2: a children's series written and recorded in the 1990s. It's
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  Speaker 2: grown into multiple podcasts that now reach around the world,
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  Speaker 2: and none of it would be possible without this forest
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  Speaker 2: right here in South Charlotte, North Carolina. At the base
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  Speaker 2: of Heartbreak Hill sits a sign that reads, RAINBOW FOREST. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's time you get to meet what's inspired several generations.
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  Speaker 2: Long before the paved paths decorated with colorful homes colonized
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  Speaker 2: around this beautiful lake, slow-moving stream, flatland swamps, and array
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  Speaker 2: of natural animals, there were families and business owners who
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  Speaker 2: are said to have raced into this area for the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of the land, wild roses, migratory birds, and wild grapevines.
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  Speaker 2: Those before me either forgot to write about it, or
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  Speaker 2: it's buried somewhere inside their family tree. Hey, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being a part of the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the forest. I recently read a story
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  Speaker 3: about how fall time anywhere in the world is the
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  Speaker 3: one moment where a lot of humans need to pay
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  Speaker 3: attention because mother nature is teaching the human how to
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  Speaker 3: let things go. You don't think that a tree loves
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  Speaker 3: its leaves or the grass can be green even though
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  Speaker 3: there's snow on the ground. See, that's the thing about
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  Speaker 3: it is that mother nature is is willing, once a year,
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  Speaker 3: to let things go. And of course, the human is
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  Speaker 3: going to complain about it, because when Mother Nature lets
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  Speaker 3: things go, it's just another mess that we've got to
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  Speaker 3: put on the honey-do list. But the art of letting
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  Speaker 3: things go, does that mean forever? Does it mean that
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  Speaker 3: we're promised a new beginning tomorrow? No and no. Because
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  Speaker 3: when we let things go, even with Mother Nature... There
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  Speaker 3: is no guarantee that the elephant ears will come back
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  Speaker 3: up from the soil. There's no guarantee that the trees
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  Speaker 3: will blossom next year to give us ripe, beautiful apples
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  Speaker 3: or peaches, pears, or even just carrots in the ground.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know what's on the opposite side of when
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  Speaker 3: Mother Nature lets things go. But Mother Nature is teaching
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  Speaker 3: the human being to learn such a thing. Now, there's
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  Speaker 3: one thing that we did. During the COVID lockdown. In
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  Speaker 3: letting things go. And this is a true story. And
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  Speaker 3: it's a true event that happens around the world. It's
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  Speaker 3: called the Swedish death cleaning. What it is. Is that
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  Speaker 3: you ask the family members. Is there something in this home.
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  Speaker 3: That you would like to have. I mean if we
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  Speaker 3: were to transition right now. Would you want it? If
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  Speaker 3: the answer is no. Let it go. But don't wait
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  Speaker 3: until fall to let it go. Which is kind of weird. Because.
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  Speaker 3: Because the human being, especially in this forest, we tend
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  Speaker 3: to let things go in the spring at the beginning
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  Speaker 3: of new things. But yet Mother Nature is just starting
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  Speaker 3: things out in the warmth of spring. Letting go happens
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  Speaker 3: in the fall. Why then don't we call it fall
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  Speaker 3: cleaning rather than spring cleaning? And if we could let
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  Speaker 3: go of more, would it be okay? Could we live
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  Speaker 3: with ourselves? See, Mother Nature, especially this forest, is endlessly speaking.
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  Speaker 3: It's ultimately up to the visitor to find out if
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  Speaker 3: they want to listen. Because every day that I take
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  Speaker 3: a stroll within the collection of these limbs, leaves, tall grasses,
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  Speaker 3: slow-moving stream, there's even a rooster in the forest now
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  Speaker 3: with the bumblebees, the beekeeper with all the honey, and
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  Speaker 3: everything else, including the goats with their milk. making cheese,
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  Speaker 3: and other forms of natural things that take place. And
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  Speaker 3: are we listening when Mother Nature says, during those fall months,
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  Speaker 3: it's time to let something go? Hmm. What will it
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  Speaker 3: be this season that we'll let go of in this forest? Hey,
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  Speaker 3: thanks for being a part of the conversation.