Ep 23 · The Quiet Ears

A traveling storyteller hedgehog named Bramble wanders into Shiloh Creek the very morning Chitter the chipmunk races back with big news: the bend-tree's first blossom has opened — and it only stays open for one morning! But Chitter talks SO fast, and everyone's only half-listening, that his little message gets passed friend-to-friend and comes out the other end wonderfully wrong — a blossom TOSS, then a blossom CONTEST, then a whole blossom PARTY (bring snacks!). While the loud friends build a party at the wrong tree, quiet Quilla — who heard it right the first time — can't get a word in. It takes Bramble's gentle story about a creature with ears so big it could hear a pinecone drop a mile off, yet never heard the small friend whispering right beside it, to help the friends finally get quiet, really listen, and catch the little blossom just before it tucks itself away. A warm, funny story about how listening isn't hearing everything — it's getting quiet enough to hear the one right in front of you. Anchored in a line from a letter a man named James wrote to his friends in the Bible: be swift to hear, slow to speak. With a Mudpuppy Minutes that explains, gloriously and confidently wrong, what sound is even made of. For kids ages 4-12. Stories of kindness and wonder from Old Timber and the friends at Shiloh Creek.