Creatures of the Wind

From birth until death, this is my life and the lives of those around me.

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Creatures of the Wind

Day 18 𖦹 MAPS

May 18, 2026

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Day 18! I'm behind the stand, Miles is recording the audio. A fun and new challenge. Enjoy enjoy, until tomorrow!

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Hello hello. Hey.

SPEAKER_05 0:03

Ready?

SPEAKER_04 0:04

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_05 0:06

Okay. Day 18.

SPEAKER_01 0:11

Free tea.

SPEAKER_05 0:12

Bake it up and spot up. Same as Jenny.

SPEAKER_04 0:19

30 days of free tea in Maria Hernandez Park. Should we talk logistics?

SPEAKER_05 0:25

Tell me. What's up?

SPEAKER_04 0:27

So I have some tips.

SPEAKER_05 0:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 0:30

Scenes and moments are just as important. It like adds texture, right? The bouncing of the ball or like music that someone's playing.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

This is my little sister.

SPEAKER_04 0:51

Oh my goodness, the fam is here. Like, even if you don't include it in the episode, all those elements like add a level of dimensionality to the episode.

SPEAKER_05 1:07

I'm doing the podcast, so I'm thinking out kind of be bold. I'm approaching. What's up? Looking good, guys.

SPEAKER_04 1:20

Pay attention to how you feel.

SPEAKER_05 1:23

Um I feel so insane. I feel really overwhelmed by possibility. It's like everywhere I look is something that needs to be captured. It's imperative that I capture it. Any any advice?

SPEAKER_04 1:44

The microphone is seriously the best passport I've ever been given. And it brought me to the most interesting people in bizarre places that I never ever would have been to had I not had my microphone.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Ashley, do you want to go play with the kite with us?

SPEAKER_04 2:11

Miles' first tech mishap of the day.

SPEAKER_05 2:16

The pain.

SPEAKER_04 2:17

Explain to the mic how you feel.

SPEAKER_05 2:23

Oh man.

unknown 2:25

Fuck.

SPEAKER_05 2:27

This is terrible. This is the worst I've felt all month.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

Fuck.

SPEAKER_05 2:33

I'm freaking out, David. Do you have any advice for me?

SPEAKER_01 2:38

Why?

SPEAKER_05 2:39

I like had a great conversation with someone and it wasn't recording, and now I'm now I'm sad.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

There's plenty of good conversations you'll have.

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Tell me about maps. Maps? Oh. Maps are my favorite thing in the world. I love maps. They help me to really feel like I know a place. I just think it's a beautiful thing when people are connected to the physical environment. Send this arm out. That helps with the balance. Find your balance. Find it. Maps tell you where you are. They enable you to explore.

SPEAKER_01 3:27

We got it! We got it! We got it!

SPEAKER_04 3:34

Look at that thing!

unknown 3:36

Wow!

SPEAKER_04 3:36

It's flying, it's right above the tree. Oh no.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

It's kind of a universally recognizable way to have like a shared identity.

SPEAKER_04 3:46

Let's go. Let's go. Here we go.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

We all are immigrants, right? You, me, her. If you are no immigrant, no matter if you were born here, your grand-grand grand grandfather came. So it doesn't matter. We all came.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

So many neighborhoods, so many streets are named after people who no one knows what who they are, what they did. But now they carry on a new meaning. Like when people say they live on like the Bedford Nostrand stop, for them that's like a train stop. But those are also people that someone chose to like name these avenues after.

SPEAKER_02 4:24

Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie, Lizzie!

SPEAKER_05 4:27

Are there any like street names in New York specifically that come to mind as like have an interesting backstory?

SPEAKER_03 4:36

Yeah, right here in right here on Maria Hernandez. Knickerbacker and Irving. Whoa! Oh my god! Oh both of them relate to Washington Irving, one of the like preeminent American authors. Knickerbocker is a term that he essentially coined in his History of New York book.

SPEAKER_05 5:00

This is important. Why do you think it's important that we we know who was here before us?

SPEAKER_02 5:07

I think we have been lost the connection with the different forms of life. Especially the plants, you know. We're drinking tea, there is a plant, but also the plants have spirits. And we just don't even recognize, we don't even talk with that spirit anymore. So we lost that.

SPEAKER_01 5:31

What was the point of this?

SPEAKER_05 5:33

Of what?

SPEAKER_01 5:33

Of just walking with it.

SPEAKER_05 5:35

I don't know, man. I'm just trying to figure out what to do the podcast on. I'm just I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

We need community anywhere, any form. So I think what you do is great because it's kind of like the conversation that we need to make this little change. I feel safe here because it's nourishing me.