Day 27 𖦹 ANTS

Syd is taking over the tea stand today! They are awesome. Sounds include Jose meeting his first Hasidic Jew, an Australian man named Noll and, of course, ants.

Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:01

Okay. Day twenty-seven.

SPEAKER_03 0:06

Free tea.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Thirty days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.

SPEAKER_06 0:17

Nice to see you. How are you feeling? Um nervous, but good. I don't know. And I'm adjusting to the rhythm. How's the rhythm feeling so far?

SPEAKER_05 0:32

It's brand new.

SPEAKER_07 0:38

It's it's a communal thing. Like if you it it creates community, people open up, talk to each other. Like this is what it is. Oh, where? I see immediately. Yeah, right? The connection. So man. Right now.

SPEAKER_04 0:54

I just met my first ascetic Jew, man.

SPEAKER_07 0:57

I saw that. What do you think?

SPEAKER_04 0:59

That was awesome.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

Tea is a present to attract um, you know, social kindness and to bring community together and just enjoy life and enjoy the day. I think it's very impactful what the what a tea stand is doing.

SPEAKER_05 1:15

Yeah, you got to meet Jose over here. Of course.

SPEAKER_04 1:18

Yeah, man. I got to meet Jacob. He's the he's he's awesome, man. He's talking to me about Bone Broth and all the different cultural uh traditions that they do, which is beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

We exchange values in our conversation, which I'm grateful for. Yes, I'm gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

It's so simple and so fundamental and so profoundly connected.

SPEAKER_05 1:45

Yeah, let's do it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:49

Do you like ants?

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Love them.

SPEAKER_04 1:52

The ants work as a family. There's no ant left behind.

SPEAKER_06 1:56

There's an entirely different world happening for ants.

SPEAKER_04 1:59

They have their own universe.

SPEAKER_06 2:01

Gotta look at the dirt on the ground, and half the time I won't even really notice it.

SPEAKER_04 2:04

They might get crushed out of nowhere by one of us. I gotta watch your backback because Jose might sta kill one of us, man.

SPEAKER_06 2:15

Like this patch of dirt that we're sitting on is like a desert for them, dude. And then like the grass becomes this rich forest. It's like a whole a whole other city. And so many things happen on the ground and they find things and they build and they dig and there's probably tunnels right now.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

They're probably humans. Oh these loud ass humans right now.

SPEAKER_06 2:35

And they can be crushed. They're so fragile. And yet they're really resilient where they can like fall from a tree and not even just keep crawling.

SPEAKER_04 2:43

This guy keeps coming back, man. We might we might have to just like invite him over to our house. To our little ant tunnel, man.

SPEAKER_06 2:52

But sing with like everything that's happening in the earth right now and like in the world that we're aware of. I don't know, like, there's just so much life happening on so many different levels. The beauty of life is just as fragile and temporary as the things that are also really difficult right now.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

Well, I get a lot of pain. I'd love to get rid of that. I mean, pain electro, I'm gonna hide it. The bad people that judge me, they're horrible.

SPEAKER_06 3:23

And they're also kind of happening simultaneously.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

My family, they're the good in my life.

SPEAKER_06 3:32

The perspective of insanity that is right now, there is also this other side that is happening. It just might be a little bit more quiet.

SPEAKER_05 3:40

So last night when you were crying with your son, it was beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 3:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 3:57

The tea stand is put up, it's taken down every day. There's things that happen in between. Potentially difficult interactions, like nothing is over until it's over, and even then that's an ending is like the start of something else. There is so much destruction that we're seeing, and being able to hold that is hold isn't the word I want to use, but observe it and be a part of it and interact with it. The desire for a beautiful world is so powerful amongst us right now. I hear about that all the time.

SPEAKER_05 4:50

I imagine a world where there's a lot of fruit trees everywhere, and we climb them, and we ask each other questions, like real questions that we're scared to ask.

SPEAKER_07 5:05

I first met him, like he had like a tiny little table outside on uh Ocklandic Avenue years ago and he was by himself, and now like look at it. He's seen the evolution of the community, and so to me, I'm like it's happening because that's the desire.

SPEAKER_06 5:26

That's I don't know, it's like the death of this empire is happening literally amongst our very eyes, and it looks like people grabbing for power as much as they can because they s potentially sense it falling away.

SPEAKER_04 5:43

I feel like we can't fully get rid of the bad stuff, but we could do things to kind of transmute the bad stuff into uh the good uh good things.

SPEAKER_05 5:53

How do we transmute it?

SPEAKER_04 5:55

By drinking tea.

SPEAKER_06 5:56

That's simple is simple. And the stronger desire for people to have a world that they really believe in, I suspect it could be the closer that we're coming to it.

SPEAKER_07 6:14

It's my how about my stuff is gonna go into the god every day.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

You know what else is it?