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Day 15 𖦹 TREE · Creatures of the Wind

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  SPEAKER_05: Day 15.
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  SPEAKER_05: Free tea.
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  SPEAKER_02: 30 days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.
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  SPEAKER_05: Jose's already at the tea stand, so that's how I know it's gonna be a good day.
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  SPEAKER_07: Day 15! That way! Perfect.
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  SPEAKER_07: So there's two cold options.
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  SPEAKER_07: There's a chrysanthemum on puer, and then there's also a cinnamon apple.
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  SPEAKER_04: Give me the one that you like.
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  SPEAKER_04: Ooh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: I got you.
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  SPEAKER_04: Cold or hot?
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  unknown: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: Universe is watching you, you remember that.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay, you're gonna put energy in here, and God is gonna give you that.
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  SPEAKER_04: Universe always gives me whatever I have today, it's all been I left my home, my everything for universe.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: And now I work, whatever it told me, I go.
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  SPEAKER_04: What's trying to help others?
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  SPEAKER_04: Mimi.
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  SPEAKER_04: Mimi.
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  SPEAKER_04: The universe is looking out for you too, Mimi.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he they are.
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  SPEAKER_04: They love me.
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  SPEAKER_04: I love them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_04: Have a fantastic day and stay blessed.
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  SPEAKER_04: Stay blessed.
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  SPEAKER_04: See you guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: So simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just so simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing about it, just some tea.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, no, no.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody has a story here, whether you're a native here or you've just been here for like I don't know, like six months.
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  SPEAKER_00: Everybody has a story.
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  SPEAKER_04: That's what makes it bush for you.
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  SPEAKER_04: You're gonna love it.
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  SPEAKER_04: Because you're doing this.
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  SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: I never get tired of living in this area because there's always something new, but then it still holds that that same old school kind of feel to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like a GTA almost.
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  SPEAKER_00: What do you mean by that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because it's like you see you do see the same people doing the same thing every day, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Anybody say something, you take a picture, you show me, and I'll hunt them down.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't need cops.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Tree.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'll hunt them down and find them.
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  SPEAKER_04: We don't need cops.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm from the neighborhood.
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  SPEAKER_02: Alright, peace.
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  SPEAKER_02: To meet him for literally four years.
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  SPEAKER_02: Really?
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  SPEAKER_02: It just happened.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's incredible.
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  SPEAKER_06: So you met Tree.
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  SPEAKER_06: Tree?
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  SPEAKER_02: Tree.
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  SPEAKER_06: The speaker man.
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  SPEAKER_02: The famed speaker man of Maria Hernandez Park.
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  SPEAKER_02: Which is all that I've really known him as for the entire time I've lived here.
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  SPEAKER_02: I I gotta think he he might be the single most recognizable person in Maria Hernandez Park.
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  SPEAKER_02: Partially because he plays music so loud that if he is in the park, you know he's in the park.
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  SPEAKER_00: He plays, he has a certain genre, he'll play the same exact song for a certain period of time.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yeah, he said that he's the protector of this park, and if anyone gives me trouble, just show him a photo of the perpetrator and he'll take care of it.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I feel very protected.
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  SPEAKER_02: Which is also kind of crazy because I've definitely given him some waves and smiles, and I've never had it reciprocated.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I've had this narrative in my head of like, this guy does not fuck with the tea stand.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like he's been here so long, and he's like seeing this white guy serving tea, and it's like, yeah, there's just some kind of dissonance and dislike there, which I like I I would understand and respect, but it was just in my head, like we were talking about all of those judgments that don't have any real basis.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, I don't know, maybe maybe originally that's what he thought it was, and then just with enough consistency over the years, he started to see it in a different light.
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  SPEAKER_02: But it's like the longer you're here and the more you're paying attention, it's like I'm seeing Mr.
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  SPEAKER_02: Lee and Jaime approaching the tea stand now.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like all of the things that would just be part of the background become the foreground.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like the same thing as knowing the names of the plant life.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like you wouldn't really care that this tree is that or that or that, but when you have a relationship with it, all of a sudden it becomes important and it becomes a source of meaning for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not a sparrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Ziggy, Ziggy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right in this branch closest to us.
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  SPEAKER_03: Is it a female goldfinch?
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  SPEAKER_07: Maybe, yes.
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  SPEAKER_07: What are you all doing at?
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  SPEAKER_03: Wait, I can't see.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah, that's a female goldfinch.
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  SPEAKER_03: Female goldfinch.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah! I knew it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Shout out, tree.
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  SPEAKER_02: Shout out tree.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it's like so like I feel protected by the trees in the first place.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, I'm counting down the minutes until I get some shade from this linden tree right here.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so now there's another another tree in my life that is protecting protecting me.
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  SPEAKER_07: If you could ask a tree questions and it would answer, what would you ask?
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  SPEAKER_02: I think I would just want to ask, like, how are you?
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  SPEAKER_02: I would want to ask if they're like happy being here in Maria Hernandez Park.
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  SPEAKER_02: I would want to see if they're like okay with their place in the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: What changes have they observed in the neighborhood over the years?
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  SPEAKER_02: And how does it affect them?
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  SPEAKER_03: When was the first time you felt the sun?
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  SPEAKER_02: Are you walked on a lot?
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  SPEAKER_03: Or do you remember your first time meeting a human?
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  SPEAKER_02: Does it feel way different without your leaves?
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  SPEAKER_05: Are you okay being so still all the time?
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  SPEAKER_02: Do you have feelings?
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  SPEAKER_06: Does it tickle you in the window?
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  SPEAKER_06: Dances between your branches.
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  SPEAKER_03: What does it feel like when a bird chooses you to make a nest?
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  SPEAKER_04: Are you talking to each other?
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  SPEAKER_03: What are your first memories?
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  SPEAKER_01: I think about the passage of time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Does it bother you when you see someone vulnerable or in trouble?
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  SPEAKER_03: Do you feel yourself attracted?
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  SPEAKER_03: Does it feel like morning stretches?
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, or like does it feel like doing yoga, or is it just when you grow an inch when you're a kid and you don't realize once you say that a tree?
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  SPEAKER_07: You guys love the tree?
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  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, they do.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh cheers today fifteen.
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  SPEAKER_05: Woo! Day fifteen.