WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.920 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:04.560 align:middle line:84% The more we think to ask, the more we think to remember. 00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:07.320 align:middle line:84% There's an extraordinary essay at the closing 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.660 align:middle line:84% of this collection, where Julia just knocks it out of the park, 00:00:11.660 --> 00:00:15.880 align:middle line:84% talking about the sobremesa-- just the opportunity 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:19.320 align:middle line:84% after a meal to sit down, and just talk into the night, 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:23.920 align:middle line:84% and trade those stories, and cherish the memories we have. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:25.460 align:middle line:84% Do you know what that word means? 00:00:25.460 --> 00:00:26.420 align:middle line:90% Sobre mesa? 00:00:26.420 --> 00:00:29.040 align:middle line:90% 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:29.900 align:middle line:90% It means something. 00:00:29.900 --> 00:00:32.560 align:middle line:90% But it's an expression. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:37.880 align:middle line:84% That means it's that time after a meal where you linger and tell 00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:39.160 align:middle line:90% the stories. 00:00:39.160 --> 00:00:42.040 align:middle line:84% And all the kids are arranged around. 00:00:42.040 --> 00:00:44.660 align:middle line:84% And they're learning from the elders. 00:00:44.660 --> 00:00:49.160 align:middle line:84% They don't have it written down in a dictatorship. 00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:53.480 align:middle line:84% It has to be an oral culture in a way. 00:00:53.480 --> 00:00:55.520 align:middle line:90% And hear the stories. 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:57.600 align:middle line:90% And you never get tired of them. 00:00:57.600 --> 00:00:59.200 align:middle line:90% They come around. 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.360 align:middle line:84% And each time, they're a little different and embellished. 00:01:02.360 --> 00:01:04.560 align:middle line:90% And so we have this word. 00:01:04.560 --> 00:01:07.360 align:middle line:84% And I'm very interested now in words 00:01:07.360 --> 00:01:09.280 align:middle line:90% that exist in one language. 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:12.380 align:middle line:84% And you can explain it and translate it. 00:01:12.380 --> 00:01:14.380 align:middle line:84% But you need many words in another language. 00:01:14.380 --> 00:01:18.000 align:middle line:84% But the fact that there's a word in that language 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:20.280 align:middle line:84% tells you something about that culture 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:24.300 align:middle line:84% and what is there, what they emphasize, 00:01:24.300 --> 00:01:29.240 align:middle line:84% what they're privileged, what moments get privileged. 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:33.080 align:middle line:84% For instance, I discovered that there's a Brazilian Portuguese 00:01:33.080 --> 00:01:34.800 align:middle line:90% word: cafuné. 00:01:34.800 --> 00:01:38.520 align:middle line:84% And it's a word for running your fingers lovingly 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:40.640 align:middle line:90% through a loved one's hair. 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:42.520 align:middle line:90% You need so many words. 00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:43.680 align:middle line:90% One word. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:44.880 align:middle line:90% It's important. 00:01:44.880 --> 00:01:47.440 align:middle line:84% And that it obviously shows you something 00:01:47.440 --> 00:01:54.920 align:middle line:84% about what that culture wants to highlight. 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.620 align:middle line:90% And so you learn so much. 00:01:57.620 --> 00:02:00.840 align:middle line:84% And sobre mesa is one of those words 00:02:00.840 --> 00:02:03.840 align:middle line:84% that we have in Spanish, for something 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:08.840 align:middle line:84% that in a busy culture where you get half an hour lunch break 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:10.800 align:middle line:84% and you're on the screen at the same. 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.700 align:middle line:84% You're not privileging those moments. 00:02:13.700 --> 00:02:16.760 align:middle line:84% Everybody on a different schedule. 00:02:16.760 --> 00:02:24.480 align:middle line:84% I mean, one of the things COVID did is you sat down and you 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:28.840 align:middle line:84% stopped, even if it was--you longed for Zoom sobre mesas. 00:02:28.840 --> 00:02:33.280 align:middle line:90% Virtual sobre mesas. 00:02:33.280 --> 00:02:35.000 align:middle line:90% Because you missed that. 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.360 align:middle line:84% We want the stories to keep going. 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.430 align:middle line:90% And not end.