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Day 30 𖦹 THE END · Creatures of the Wind

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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_09: Day 30.
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  SPEAKER_09: Take it up and five people.
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  SPEAKER_07: Thirty days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hello, hello.
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  SPEAKER_07: Oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_03: Final day.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's a beautiful day.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, Miles.
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  SPEAKER_03: How are you feeling?
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  SPEAKER_03: It's the last day.
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  SPEAKER_07: The last day.
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  SPEAKER_07: I'm tired, but in a totally different way.
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  SPEAKER_07: We're here.
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  SPEAKER_07: Even if we have to crawl over the finish line, like that's that's good enough.
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  SPEAKER_11: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_11: You made it to the final day.
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  SPEAKER_07: We made it.
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  SPEAKER_11: Stefan made it.
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  SPEAKER_07: Hell yeah.
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  SPEAKER_07: One last cup.
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  SPEAKER_07: Jasmine Green, baby.
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  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_07: I was like, okay, no, we're just saying it's gonna be weird.
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  SPEAKER_07: Like just not being here just on any.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was like, okay.
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  SPEAKER_07: When I think about it not being here for others, that's when I feel sad and like can feel the emotions belling up.
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  SPEAKER_07: Like when I when I take myself out of it a little bit, and it's not about what's on my to-do list, but more just like what is happening in the park and are there people walking by where the T-Sand normally is and like having their heart sink a little bit because it's not there and their friends aren't there.
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  SPEAKER_07: That's the part that that hurts.
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  SPEAKER_06: I think endings used to be really hard for me, but now they're really easy because I don't see it as an end.
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  SPEAKER_06: It doesn't feel like an ending because it will always be with me and with all of us.
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  SPEAKER_06: I think this space and and time will forever exist.
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  SPEAKER_06: When I'm picturing my future self thinking back in this moment, I'll think of like the wind and cool air post-rain and the food that was shared and the warmth.
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  SPEAKER_05: I'll actually go because I have a tree that I have to do.
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  SPEAKER_06: I know.
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  SPEAKER_05: Because this is like the spot.
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  SPEAKER_07: Great spot.
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  SPEAKER_07: I know.
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  SPEAKER_07: Thanks for being such a part of the month.
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  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, of course.
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  SPEAKER_05: I feel like this helps us get to know each other in the community.
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  SPEAKER_11: Tell me about this idea of doing it together versus doing it alone.
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  SPEAKER_07: I was seeing how different people who were taking over were interacting with visitors.
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  SPEAKER_09: It's cool to be able to do this.
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  SPEAKER_09: It's okay.
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  SPEAKER_07: People in the neighborhood need to know them.
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  SPEAKER_07: Like they're so good.
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  SPEAKER_07: They're just full of life and love and ready to share it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Your first time serving the tea.
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  SPEAKER_03: Tell me about this experience.
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  SPEAKER_08: I feel so lucky to be here.
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  SPEAKER_08: I've had so many special interactions that have made me just like love the cuteness in humans so much.
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  SPEAKER_08: It's like I'm feeding them many different things and handing them tea.
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  SPEAKER_08: I'm like, I believe in you.
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  SPEAKER_08: Go take on the day, you're amazing.
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  SPEAKER_08: And I'm here.
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  SPEAKER_08: And I'm here for you.
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  unknown: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: How does it feel to be sitting on this side of the stand?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm a little nervous, but it feels good.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nah, now I could I could be in Miles' shoes and see how it is serving tea to the community.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jose's first pour.
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  SPEAKER_11: Okay, Joy.
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  SPEAKER_11: How are you?
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  SPEAKER_11: How does it feel to be behind the stand?
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  SPEAKER_11: It feels like a full circle moment.
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  SPEAKER_10: Um I'm getting a taste of what Miles must feel all the time and why it's so rewarding and why he keeps showing up.
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  SPEAKER_10: He really expanded my imagination for what we could be doing with our time.
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  SPEAKER_10: Okay, so you're taking over the stand.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm taking over the tea stand.
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  SPEAKER_03: How do you feel about it being the last day of perpetual brew?
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm actually a little bit heartbroken.
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  SPEAKER_04: I think that even in the like the background, knowing that this was happening was like kind of heartening about like the state of the world.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I know that it's like not ending for the rest of the forever.
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  SPEAKER_04: Um, but it's something that we need to have all the time.
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  SPEAKER_07: David.
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  SPEAKER_07: Aw, and Maddie's there.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's so perfect.
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  SPEAKER_11: Maddie's favorite person.
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  SPEAKER_01: How does it feel to be behind the stand?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh, it feels so beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every time I'm behind the stand, I feel like this is where I'm supposed to be.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every morning I journal and I'm like, okay, this is what I'm gonna do today, and it's you know, get groceries, blah blah blah, whatever.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go to the tea stand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like that's always on my schedule for the day.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been so special to know that people I love, people I'm like I have never met before, people I have learned to love are all gonna be there.
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  SPEAKER_01: It just gives you such a big sense of belonging.
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  SPEAKER_07: This is a poem from Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin.
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  SPEAKER_07: Please bring strange things.
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  SPEAKER_07: Please come bringing new things.
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  SPEAKER_07: Let very old things come into your hands.
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  SPEAKER_07: Let what you do not know come into your eyes.
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  SPEAKER_07: Let desert sand harden your feet.
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  SPEAKER_07: Let the arch of your feet be the mountains.
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  SPEAKER_07: Let the paths of your fingertips be your maps, and the ways you go be the lines on your palms.
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  SPEAKER_07: Let there be deep snow in your inbreathing, and your outbreath be the shining of ice.
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  SPEAKER_07: May your mouth contain the shapes of strange words.
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  SPEAKER_07: May you smell food cooking you have not eaten.
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  SPEAKER_07: May the spring of a foreign river be your naval.
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  SPEAKER_07: May your soul be at home where there are no houses.
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  SPEAKER_07: Walk carefully, well loved one.
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  SPEAKER_07: Walk mindfully, well loved one.
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  SPEAKER_07: Walk fearlessly, well loved one.
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  SPEAKER_07: Return with us, return to us, the always coming home.
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  SPEAKER_07: Even when things feel really uncertain, and even when I'm having questions about my identity and my purpose, this is all part of the journey home to myself.
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  SPEAKER_07: Seeing seeing this as a step also toward toward a home for future humans and non-humans.
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  SPEAKER_07: And just working toward a world where our neighborhoods feel more like home.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's just part of the path there.
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  SPEAKER_07: And I think that's where a lot of the sadness comes in.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's like it feels like a home is being torn down.
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  SPEAKER_07: And it will be rebuilt and torn down and rebuilt and torn down, but it won't be a fixture in the same way that it has been for this past month for so many people.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Jesse said it changed his life.
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  SPEAKER_02: You didn't even know Jesse a couple weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Something really beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_03: Five forty-nine PM.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_03: Second cry of the day.
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  SPEAKER_09: Oh man.
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  SPEAKER_07: Okay, I need to like say it to you to like say it to myself.
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  SPEAKER_07: We're gonna clear the table, move it over there, and then we're gonna like I mean we're gonna circle around the table.
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  SPEAKER_07: Alright, everybody, come on over! Alright.
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  SPEAKER_07: And then if anyone wants to say any words, can you say something?
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh during the circle.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: You say something in the center?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hey, I'm May.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh I've gotten Lucky enough to get to meet so many of you.
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  SPEAKER_03: So thank you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for your words.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for your words and your humanness.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um and Miles.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's been, it's been so, so meaningful to get to know you and and like see you live in this way.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's so full of care and intention.
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  SPEAKER_03: And it's so cool that like this is just like an idea, you know?
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  SPEAKER_03: And like look at what it's become.
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  SPEAKER_03: Not only right now, but I've witnessed I witnessed so much connection and love and care and silliness with strangers who have become like friends and like roommates and and and and it's it's really special.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I feel so lucky.
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  SPEAKER_07: So then I think it's like there's all this energy and we kind of need a release.
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  SPEAKER_07: And so I was gonna say we like run a lap around the park, maybe.
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  SPEAKER_07: Who's coming?
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  SPEAKER_07: Keep in mind the park visitors.
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  SPEAKER_07: Let's be respectful.
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  SPEAKER_09: Oh god.
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  SPEAKER_07: Oh, it's gonna be so long.
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  SPEAKER_09: Okay.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_09: What if we walked?
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  SPEAKER_03: How are we doing, Maddie?
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, I'm gonna die.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_03: How are you feeling?
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  SPEAKER_07: It's over.
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  SPEAKER_07: Thank God.
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  SPEAKER_07: It's over.
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  SPEAKER_11: What a month.