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Somebody left a bottle of water.

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Thank you so much.

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I'm so thirsty.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So happy it was there.

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I come from weavers.

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They wove on a loom,
and I weave on paper.

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And on my-- spent summers
with my grandmother,

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who was a Weaver.

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She would have my
cousin and I clean--

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card the wool that was dirty.

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And then once we got it cleaned
off with everything on it,

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then we'd roll it up for her.

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And then she'd take
that with her spin,

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and then she'd start spinning.

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And she always had stories to go
along with what we were doing,

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or give us advice.

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We were just about 12 years old.

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And there's a word--
several words in here.

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Iich'ąhii is the
moths that fly around,

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and are attracted to light.

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And then I call her Nalí because
she's my paternal grandmother.

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Moth madness.

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Moths circle the kerosene
lamp on the floor that sheds

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a dim light on our night work.

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My cousin and I keep
carding the woolly clumps.

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Twigs

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And dirt that clung to the
sheep from their wanderings

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among sagebrush

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And thistle drop into our laps.

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We card and card to transform
them into layers of soft clouds

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for Nalí's spindle,

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Iich'ąhii, says Nalí,

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Almost in a whisper, like she
was afraid to stir the name,

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Like the name might release
something formed from night.

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Iich'ąhii, the word
flutters in the shadows

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And cautions against all that
is unbalanced in the glittering

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world,

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The reckless, the violators,
the amoral, evil floating

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all around,

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That must be righted
with songs and prayers.

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Baa'hádzid!

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she claims-- she exclaims,
no longer whispering,

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Harsh cautions against a
suicidal jump into the fire.

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I would learn what it
means to yearn for the fire

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burning in a stranger,

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The coup de foudre that
matched my own moth madness.

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Nalí's spindle tilts
like the Earth's axis

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that she spins
against her thigh.

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Clouds of wool transform
again into strands

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of color for her loom
that becomes her world.

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She calls the earth and sky,

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She calls stories
of female mountains,

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She calls stories of
male mountains to her,

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Geometric designs to balance the
world against the moth madness.

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[APPLAUSE]

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