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Day 8 𖦹 GRANDMOTHER · Creatures of the Wind

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: Today is day eight.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean free tea but famous denies 30 days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's a chill morning.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have any one week post reflections?
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: I I think more than anything, it's we can totally do this.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_03: I participate in like food distribution a lot, but there's such a different energy that the tea stand has and such a softness that people approach the tea stand with that just feels so unique.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_03: Or barley tea.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_03: The barley does have gluten in it.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: Even though it's just providing free tea, it feels reciprocal.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_03: I guess someone stopping to get tea feels like they're doing me a service of having a use for being here.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's good.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'm reading a book right now.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_02: One of the main characters in the book is Jiko, who is 104 years old and is Buddhist.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_02: One of the other main characters is like a 16-year-old Japanese girl.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_02: The way that she describes it is her grandma is in the elevator, but is holding the door open for everyone for as long as she needs to.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: And she's like, hey, you know what?
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_02: I've actually never asked my grandma where the elevator's going.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: Let me text her right now.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so she texts her.
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  SPEAKER_02: And Jico responds, up, down, same thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's the same.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's it's not this like ascension or descension uh to to a higher state of being or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just a way of experiencing all of it.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: Tell me about your grandmother.
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  SPEAKER_02: I interviewed her maybe ten years ago, and two like questions and answers really stuck with me.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_02: One is I asked her what the happiest part of her life was, and she said, right now.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: Um and the other thing that she said is I asked her uh like what makes her feel most alive, and she said helping people.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, would you like some perpetual brew?
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, absolutely.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um do you think about intergenerational relationships?
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I was just thinking about that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I feel like it's like the most important thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like that's the only way for knowledge to really be transferred is human to human.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's like all of that life experience, any anything that can kind of push you in a certain direction to see the world differently, I think is good, and especially when it's coming from people in your neighborhood.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_03: I think I'm gonna do the green tea.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_03: This one's really good.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you know the dude that I was telling you about a while ago?
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_03: There's a dude a few blocks away who's probably in his like early 50s, and I talk to him like three to four times a week.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_03: Um, wouldn't say he's like my friend, but I would say he's very much community to me.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe to other people like people outside New York, like what is like a 20-something-year-old queer person doing chatting with like a 50-something year old man?
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_03: Like, what do you have in common?
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_03: And it's like nothing and everything.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_03: He gave me a kiss on the cheek earlier and was like, I love you, it's so good to see you.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_03: And just so sweet.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like that's all it's honestly one of the most beautiful relationships in my life.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, because it feels so uncomplicated.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_03: When his mom passed, he like cried on my shoulder.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_03: He's shown me some really dope Venezuelan songs.
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_03: Like, he feels like a Bushwick staple to me.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_03: Like it wouldn't feel right to be here without him.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_03: We need those those interactions, that community, the the consistency of people always showing up.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: Like when he first popped up, I was hesitant because you never know who just moved here.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: But I observed this situation for a long time and it just kept growing into something positive more and more.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's like I recognize this person at this point.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_01: This feels like this is part of what Bushwick's about.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: Showing up and doing some odd fucking shit that everyone likes, honestly.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_02: The consistency and the familiarity is so essential.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like doing this once is cute and fun, but but doing it on a monthly basis or on a daily basis for perpetual brew, that's a real that's love.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_02: What time is it?
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_02: It's six.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_02: Another day in the books.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_02: Another day in the books.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_02: We did it.
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  SPEAKER_03: How are you feeling?
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_03: Feeling good.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_03: My feet are frozen, but I'm feeling good.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, tomorrow.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's you serving the tea?
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm back.