Day 12 𖦹 MEDICINE

Day 12! Rili rocks. So does Miles. Until tomorrow!

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Day twelve.

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Thirty days of free tea in Mary Hernandez Park.

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Miles back on the sand. My violinist friend Riley is back.

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Like just from sitting and listening today, this is just its own kind of interaction where. Yeah, you feel like you get to know someone.

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Yeah.

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There's someone sitting with their eyes closed. There's another person just looking at a variety. It's one of those moments where you realize shit. Life can be so beautiful sometimes.

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Yeah, every time I've come to the park, I feel that it's funny.

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It's kind of like what Riley, the violinist, and Miles and the T stand are doing, are pretty similar. They're offering a space to gather and to experience the moment together.

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Wow, this is just a different form of the same medicine.

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I had just gone to Arkansas. I came back to New York and had sort of like a post-trip slump. I was like, fuck, should I move back home? I went to therapy right over there on the corner over there. And my therapist was like, stay curious. Walked out the door, got some food down the street, and then walked over into Marie Hernandez Park when I saw the tea stand. 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. Like even just putting the mat on the ground, inviting people to like stick around. 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. But it's like actually the tea is you know symbolic for something that touches you a little deeper.

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And you feel like your world's opened up.

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Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I feel more connected to Bushwick as a whole.

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We did it! We did it!

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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.

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Yeah, and I'm sure there are people that only wine works. We all just gotta find our role, you know. Closed.

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It's 601.

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601. Another day.

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Tomorrow. Maddie's back.

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Maddie's back. Round two.

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Hallelujah. I did.

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How's it going?

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How do you feel? Your first your first day of per of perpetual rope.

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Oh, it feels so good to be back. What a beautiful day to be out here serving tea. Yeah, it feels like where it's supposed to be.