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Forest Stories Episode One Hundred Fifty Falling Leaves Dancing Without Trees · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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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. Fall is starting to set in.
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  Speaker 3: The leaves are starting to do their final dance. The long,
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  Speaker 3: tall grass is turning yellow. The air is a little
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  Speaker 3: bit chillier in the morning. But the one thing that
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  Speaker 3: I'm noticing most, the sounds of the forest. As the
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  Speaker 3: forest begins to thin itself free during these months of fall,
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  Speaker 3: you're starting to hear sounds of from other areas of
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  Speaker 3: the forest because things are starting to thin out at
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  Speaker 3: the same time you're starting to see the copperhead snakes
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  Speaker 3: and other reptiles that are seeking that heat because they're
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  Speaker 3: not ready to go in the ground they're no different
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  Speaker 3: than a human being i'm not done yet i'm not
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  Speaker 3: going inside and yet mother nature is saying it's time
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  Speaker 3: for fall it's time to take a break and allow
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  Speaker 3: other parts of this journey to take shape inside your
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  Speaker 3: mind body and soul I've been quoted to say for
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  Speaker 3: several years, probably decades, that fall time is definitely not
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  Speaker 3: my favorite time of year. Because what I see as
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  Speaker 3: a poet with a pen sitting inside this beautiful forest
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  Speaker 3: is I see the transition of energy, which is a
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  Speaker 3: nicer way of saying, I'm seeing death. I'm seeing dried
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  Speaker 3: leaves fall to the floor. I'm seeing trees do the
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  Speaker 3: same exact thing. Fall is that clearing time space. where
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  Speaker 3: the forest and everything else around it is given permission
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  Speaker 3: to just let things go. And as human beings, it's
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  Speaker 3: a great place for us to come and study, to
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  Speaker 3: be able to learn how to let things go. But
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  Speaker 3: what would you want to let go if you can't
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  Speaker 3: go back and get it? Because I sure don't see
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  Speaker 3: these tall trees reaching down to put those leaves that
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  Speaker 3: fell from them back on their limbs this coming spring. No,
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  Speaker 3: they grow brand new ones. But in this forest, as
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  Speaker 3: fall is starting to appear... My heart does yearn for
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  Speaker 3: those memories that I had from this past summer. And
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  Speaker 3: of course you're sitting there thinking, past summer? It went
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  Speaker 3: by so fast. This wasn't like my childhood where the
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  Speaker 3: summer felt like forever. It's like in the blink of
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  Speaker 3: an eye, and you're asking me to remember. And maybe
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  Speaker 3: that's what the leaves that are falling from the trees,
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  Speaker 3: the final dances, I love to call it, why I
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  Speaker 3: will stop and take the time to watch it spin forever. turn,
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  Speaker 3: go to the left, go to the right, go upward,
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  Speaker 3: go down, follow a path that doesn't even exist before
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  Speaker 3: it hits the ground. And then to see it as
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  Speaker 3: one of many leaves in every direction. Now the human
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  Speaker 3: is saying, I got a job to do. I got
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  Speaker 3: to pick this stuff up. I've got to use blowers
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  Speaker 3: to blow it away. What am I going to do?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it funny how fall will do that? It turns
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  Speaker 3: some of the greatest people into one-eyed monsters because as
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  Speaker 3: beautiful as fall tries to present itself during this time
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  Speaker 3: of transition, the beauty of death and the human being
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  Speaker 3: thinks they've just got another job. The air is cooler.
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  Speaker 3: The air is cleaner. The air is moving through your mind, body,
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  Speaker 3: and soul in ways that ignites everything that's inside you
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  Speaker 3: to really take the time to And ponder the thought,
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  Speaker 3: what can we let go of at the beginning of
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  Speaker 3: this new season? It's fall. It's time to let go.
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  Speaker 3: Is it words that we let go? Is it emotions?
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  Speaker 3: Is it a desire to want to go, go, go, go, go?
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  Speaker 3: What are you letting go of? Because they tend to
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  Speaker 3: do that before Easter. What is it, those 30 or
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  Speaker 3: 40 days where it's like, you know, Lent, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I got to stop. I can't do it because I'm
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  Speaker 3: doing it all in the name of Lent. How about
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  Speaker 3: the name of fall? What are you willing to let
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  Speaker 3: go of for three months? And at the end of
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  Speaker 3: those three months, your body goes dormant. Because that's what
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  Speaker 3: winter is. It becomes cold. It becomes a memory of what?
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  Speaker 3: How cold you were yesterday versus today? How cold you'll
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  Speaker 3: be tomorrow versus today? It depends on how you think.
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  Speaker 3: It depends on the core of your tree. That little
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  Speaker 3: inner plant. That's constantly growing new things for you to
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  Speaker 3: discover or to let go of. It's just in the fall,
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  Speaker 3: you see a lot more of it. Thanks for being
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  Speaker 3: a part of the conversation.