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Day 12 𖦹 MEDICINE · Creatures of the Wind

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_03: Day twelve.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_04: Thirty days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_03: Miles back on the sand.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_03: My violinist friend Riley is back.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like just from sitting and listening today, this is just its own kind of interaction where.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, you feel like you get to know someone.
• 1:19
  unknown: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's someone sitting with their eyes closed.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_03: There's another person just looking at a variety.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: It's one of those moments where you realize shit.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_03: Life can be so beautiful sometimes.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, every time I've come to the park, I feel that it's funny.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_03: It's kind of like what Riley, the violinist, and Miles and the T stand are doing, are pretty similar.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_03: They're offering a space to gather and to experience the moment together.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_04: Wow, this is just a different form of the same medicine.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: I had just gone to Arkansas.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: I came back to New York and had sort of like a post-trip slump.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, fuck, should I move back home?
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: I went to therapy right over there on the corner over there.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: And my therapist was like, stay curious.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Walked out the door, got some food down the street, and then walked over into Marie Hernandez Park when I saw the tea stand.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: So I sat down too, chatted with Kaylee and Abby, and then uh proceeded to hang out with them for the rest of the day until 4 a.m.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like even just putting the mat on the ground, inviting people to like stick around.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: Like it'd be one thing to just like kind of give out tea, and people be like, oh, a nice warm beverage as I walk around.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's like actually the tea is you know symbolic for something that touches you a little deeper.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_03: And you feel like your world's opened up.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, absolutely.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_01: I feel more connected to Bushwick as a whole.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_04: We did it! We did it!
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: I feel like I have witnessed people get relief from this space, and I've also witnessed people get such relief in silent and obvious ways over there on that side of Maureen Hernandez.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and I'm sure there are people that only wine works.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_04: We all just gotta find our role, you know.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_04: Closed.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_03: It's 601.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_04: 601.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_04: Another day.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_03: Tomorrow.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_03: Maddie's back.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_04: Maddie's back.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_04: Round two.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_03: I did.
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  SPEAKER_04: How's it going?
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_03: How do you feel?
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_03: Your first your first day of per of perpetual rope.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it feels so good to be back.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: What a beautiful day to be out here serving tea.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it feels like where it's supposed to be.