WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.340 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:02.340 --> 00:00:03.640 align:middle line:90% I mean, you took it-- took it-- 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:04.140 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:04.140 --> 00:00:04.620 align:middle line:90% She took it. 00:00:04.620 --> 00:00:05.203 align:middle line:90% Oh that's sad. 00:00:05.203 --> 00:00:06.120 align:middle line:90% --took its, took its. 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:07.340 align:middle line:90% She's got the took-its. 00:00:07.340 --> 00:00:08.220 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:08.220 --> 00:00:09.940 align:middle line:90% It's been taken. 00:00:09.940 --> 00:00:13.920 align:middle line:90% So she can't [INAUDIBLE] 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:15.810 align:middle line:90% Anyway, what's that pose? 00:00:15.810 --> 00:00:18.520 align:middle line:90% What's that pose? 00:00:18.520 --> 00:00:20.690 align:middle line:84% [INAUDIBLE] And you're just like, no. 00:00:20.690 --> 00:00:22.472 align:middle line:84% No, you're just lying there [INAUDIBLE].. 00:00:22.472 --> 00:00:25.140 align:middle line:90% [INTERPOSING VOICES] 00:00:25.140 --> 00:00:34.356 align:middle line:84% So I feel like that gesture in combination with crying-- 00:00:34.356 --> 00:00:35.410 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:35.410 --> 00:00:35.880 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:37.380 align:middle line:84% I don't know that-- but not always-- 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:42.900 align:middle line:84% it's not always tears of sorrow because I cry when I'm moved. 00:00:42.900 --> 00:00:45.180 align:middle line:90% So I was just-- 00:00:45.180 --> 00:00:46.530 align:middle line:90% see, I'm starting to do it. 00:00:46.530 --> 00:00:47.355 align:middle line:90% I don't know if you saw me. 00:00:47.355 --> 00:00:48.147 align:middle line:90% I was sitting here. 00:00:48.147 --> 00:00:52.380 align:middle line:84% And I just started because I start to get full. 00:00:52.380 --> 00:00:53.970 align:middle line:90% And it's good. 00:00:53.970 --> 00:00:55.360 align:middle line:90% That's the good part. 00:00:55.360 --> 00:00:56.550 align:middle line:90% And I feel OK. 00:00:56.550 --> 00:00:59.617 align:middle line:84% And then even with the suffering-- 00:00:59.617 --> 00:01:01.200 align:middle line:84% when I see the suffering in the world, 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:05.280 align:middle line:84% my response to that when it comes to the work-- 00:01:05.280 --> 00:01:09.430 align:middle line:84% because I actually don't cry as often as I would like. 00:01:09.430 --> 00:01:11.430 align:middle line:90% Because I hold that in too. 00:01:11.430 --> 00:01:14.940 align:middle line:84% So then I think that's the gesture 00:01:14.940 --> 00:01:17.250 align:middle line:90% that the composition is. 00:01:17.250 --> 00:01:22.350 align:middle line:84% And even with sex, when it's real good, I cry there too. 00:01:22.350 --> 00:01:23.550 align:middle line:90% Do you know what I mean? 00:01:23.550 --> 00:01:28.920 align:middle line:84% And it's like a real sophisticated and complex kind 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:29.520 align:middle line:90% of crying. 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:30.696 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:30.696 --> 00:01:33.870 align:middle line:90% 00:01:33.870 --> 00:01:35.160 align:middle line:90% But nobody knows about that. 00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:36.438 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:36.438 --> 00:01:37.290 align:middle line:90% 00:01:37.290 --> 00:01:38.440 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] a total cry. 00:01:38.440 --> 00:01:39.928 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:39.928 --> 00:01:42.408 align:middle line:90% 00:01:42.408 --> 00:01:44.888 align:middle line:84% [? I would ?] actually do [? similar. ?] 00:01:44.888 --> 00:01:46.376 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:46.376 --> 00:01:47.380 align:middle line:90% 00:01:47.380 --> 00:01:51.340 align:middle line:90% I do a lot of maintenance work-- 00:01:51.340 --> 00:01:54.100 align:middle line:90% like, janitorial. 00:01:54.100 --> 00:01:56.260 align:middle line:90% I'm a super of the building. 00:01:56.260 --> 00:01:58.300 align:middle line:90% I'm unemployed. 00:01:58.300 --> 00:02:01.610 align:middle line:90% And that's not a choice. 00:02:01.610 --> 00:02:04.340 align:middle line:84% It's just because of being between places, 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:07.270 align:middle line:84% it's hard for anyone to hire you. 00:02:07.270 --> 00:02:10.270 align:middle line:84% But when I'm in Cleveland, I spend 00:02:10.270 --> 00:02:13.840 align:middle line:84% much of my time restoring an old building. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.390 align:middle line:90% And we took over a vacant lot. 00:02:16.390 --> 00:02:18.820 align:middle line:90% And I spent the last years-- 00:02:18.820 --> 00:02:21.250 align:middle line:90% the last 10 years-- 00:02:21.250 --> 00:02:23.380 align:middle line:84% along with Paul Van Curen and other people 00:02:23.380 --> 00:02:25.930 align:middle line:84% who decided to move into this building 00:02:25.930 --> 00:02:28.660 align:middle line:90% that had no heat initially. 00:02:28.660 --> 00:02:33.620 align:middle line:84% It's on the watershed that leads to Lake Erie. 00:02:33.620 --> 00:02:35.680 align:middle line:84% They were going to tear this building down. 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:38.470 align:middle line:84% So people are often like, why don't you-- 00:02:38.470 --> 00:02:40.952 align:middle line:84% I have the opposite problem of most people I have-- 00:02:40.952 --> 00:02:42.160 align:middle line:90% I'm running from publishers-- 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:43.270 align:middle line:90% [FEET STOMPING] 00:02:43.270 --> 00:02:46.960 align:middle line:84% like really-- and not because I don't have time to sit down. 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.530 align:middle line:84% And it's hard to articulate that when 00:02:50.530 --> 00:02:53.770 align:middle line:84% it's just the survival of this house 00:02:53.770 --> 00:02:58.570 align:middle line:84% and this building in this community but also this land 00:02:58.570 --> 00:02:59.290 align:middle line:90% outside. 00:02:59.290 --> 00:03:02.860 align:middle line:90% And so occupy in the media-- 00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:06.430 align:middle line:84% I mean, it's like you try occupying single-handedly 00:03:06.430 --> 00:03:10.000 align:middle line:84% a piece of land in this city and insisting 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:16.840 align:middle line:84% that this place be kept safe as a habitat for other beings. 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:19.120 align:middle line:84% So it was initially set aside with the purpose 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:28.000 align:middle line:84% of making a habitat for bees and other plant 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:31.750 align:middle line:90% and animal and insects. 00:03:31.750 --> 00:03:36.430 align:middle line:84% And so recently, we've had some victories-- 00:03:36.430 --> 00:03:38.380 align:middle line:90% some mixed victories with that. 00:03:38.380 --> 00:03:41.780 align:middle line:84% A conservation easement will be put on the land. 00:03:41.780 --> 00:03:44.680 align:middle line:84% So finally, I can breathe about that. 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:50.710 align:middle line:84% But all I have been focusing on is planting and pulling. 00:03:50.710 --> 00:03:52.180 align:middle line:90% But I'm not a typical gardener. 00:03:52.180 --> 00:03:55.870 align:middle line:84% I tend to throw seeds and that everything nature 00:03:55.870 --> 00:03:58.930 align:middle line:84% take care of it and otherwise running up and down 00:03:58.930 --> 00:04:01.330 align:middle line:84% the steps of these buildings, cleaning and scrubbing. 00:04:01.330 --> 00:04:04.240 align:middle line:84% And I say that because I think that we 00:04:04.240 --> 00:04:06.370 align:middle line:84% do that in our own personal lives-- 00:04:06.370 --> 00:04:08.410 align:middle line:84% maintain our own homes and stuff. 00:04:08.410 --> 00:04:11.200 align:middle line:84% So the gesture I would like to leave 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:18.850 align:middle line:84% has to do with opening up these spaces for future lives 00:04:18.850 --> 00:04:20.829 align:middle line:90% and correspondences. 00:04:20.829 --> 00:04:24.740 align:middle line:84% And in that sense, the gesture is that. 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:25.240 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:04:25.240 --> 00:04:29.000 align:middle line:90% 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.280 align:middle line:84% Can we have a round of applause for-- 00:04:31.280 --> 00:04:34.330 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:34.330 --> 00:04:38.379 align:middle line:90%