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Maybe you don't even know exactly what you're searching for you just now, to find something new. This week, two stories about people looking for something and what happens when the actually find it? Our first storyteller this week is Jessica Ribera. Just I told this story slamming Seattle, where the theme of the night was my rules, here's Jessica, live at the mouth and so I grew up in Texas, which is like a sea of dead. on grass, and so when I moved to the Pacific Northwest to Seattle, I was like magic. A wonderland of trees and mountains are water and Whales were like a mythological creature to me when I was a kid, but when I figured out you can actually see them here, I'm gonna, do that. I'm gonna see whales, and I mean the marine mammal, not the country, but

I guess I learned everything you I could learn about them and I would make a in the right place at the right time. When the wheels got twitter, I was really really paying attention to the work and network and where they were, but I really didn't want do a whale watching Chris. Could I wanted to have this like magic? All amazing, like oh, my gosh, third whales experience and it took eighteen years. But last spring I was on a moms trip with some friends. I have four kids under the age of ten. Oh Mamma time away is a big thing. I saw whales with my friends and adjusts shorts that, The story short we saw we saw a grey Wales is like the size of a school bus names like thirty feet. Away from us in the water was that I was the exact magical so bird, spiritual experience, I've been wanting And the problem was that my kids weren't there, because

they ve been with me through this whole thing. Knowing that I love wales- and I came home, the story and thereby gone so greatly bomb there were so excited, but they weren't there and my one signed. His name is IVO, Ivy, always eight years old. He was particularly happy for me and particularly devastating Wasn't there so we made a plan together that we would rent the same be charged. My friends and I went to and for this year's spring break we would go The problem is, it was on a private residential. Only Ireland like no stores, no restaurant and the only where they get there is light by private about which we don't have or a passenger only fairy. There goes like once a day like three days a week, but we Did we rented it and preparing for something that with the family of six, was insane we are all of us here. My husband was like five days off from the sector, me

so here was sore and I was carrying the bands down from the car to the dog and you gotta make sure you have everything is theirs literally, nothing there's not even a paved road, so we can make sure enough Bottles of wine for four days, with kids, with no internet and like all that stuff, so we gets in the marina were also excited, especially IVO, and I might I worry, run you wanna get on this boat. Any Amelia had a panic attack, because I think it was so much excitement and so much build up and so much pressure and yeah like tremor ringing and haven't tunny troubles. The whole thing some during breathing exercises with them. Like do you know he gets here, calm down on the boat over and we ve when we get to the house with all of our staff and we walked out onto the beautiful beach and my three year old fell into a pilot driftwood and got a bad black eye and ear.

like. My colleague I almost like oh shit like I just brought my children to change this point is required off the island, tomorrow, unlike what, if something happens, and what, if I've set them, all up to have this amazing experience that I can in no way guarantee. And maybe it'll rain. All time will see nothing says like well. If there's a whale here, am I find it and so I was like this- is beautiful house all windows facing the water cons labors like Amy even vague sign. There might be a whale us like region after, like twenty four hours. Thank God, real, discouraging everyone, including me and then the whole next week woke up fresh the next morning, unlike like by afternoon there. Like. Can you please? Let us watch this all transformers dvd, that we felt

why Ray I'm gonna take a bath sum up in the after him, and I was like just about to lower myself down to the water and it worked out the like high level skinny window, and I saw us slow, going whale boat like just off the beach, so I jump out. I might pulling. My clothes are like private diamond there like promise on them I'm, who cried whales and they're, not sure, but we go down and so here is my view. I'm running out to the beach I've, always the one in front my Alderson is right behind him, and I see my two older sons and I see the spout come out right in front of them and I merely stirred to sob and my- partner in my two little children coming behind me, and then we saw there were for Wales for my four

Kids, I was like, I just saw the sum although some, like our you, even happy daughters savages like hold it in waiting for you. like digging in the dirt. Like whale heads are coming out of the water, like I'm, not joking from me to the back. While that's how close the wheels were, we spend it. Our with them and as they finally like, headed out to sea. As that IVO Psych was it worth it, and he said it was worth Like I can't print. I can't guarantee they're gonna love what I love. I can't make experiences happening, this being the right place, the right time and his birthday are much rather mother say falls on his birthday. I may twelve and we do so what kind of magic overgrown away watching crews,

Thank you that was Jessica, revealing Jessica rights, parents and performs in Seattle her memory The almost dancer is in bookstores now she's coming it working on her first novel, a story of generational relationships and the interplay The offer wounds and wisdom to see some, because of Jessica and her family on the lookout for Wales and to find out more about her writing head to the moth dot org slush extras. our next storyteller is dean, redeploy dean all this at a store Islam in New York City, where the theme of the night was unexpected. Here's Dean LIVE the moth led me to Take you back in time to the EU nineteen eighty four.

For those of you who have not yet made your debut this was a time. before the internet before we could buy anything. any time from anywhere nineteen. Eighty four. It was a heart and humid summer Day in New York City and I was looking for a book but for back in the early seventies, I had read and novel called a death in the family, By James Agee, it had on the piano surprise and for good reason. deeply moving story of the impact on a family of the loss of the father really From the young sons point of view, much of it from ages, own experience losing his father.

sometime later I read a book called. Let us now praise famous man jeez tribute to the desperately poor sharecroppers. In silence during the great depression illustrate by hunting photographs by Walker, Evans,. The most beautiful thing I have ever read before or since. I decided I wanted to read an own everything. Age had written and so I began my quest now. This was a time when there were many small used bookshops like this one author on Manhattan, many of them in the village on the upper West side, and so, whenever I was in these neighborhoods, I would Stop in these shops and go to the beginning of the shells where the aids are and eventually I was able to collect everything age have written novels

stories. Poems film critiques, screenplays. all, but one book. A little novel called the morning watch the store of boys quest for an epiphany on EAST today. It was out of print for many years and impossible to find. nineteen. Eighty four, it was a hot and humid. Summer day in New York City, the kind of day when boundaries, blurred and anything can happen, I left my apartment on Charles Street in the village, and I had it up now. Marathon, West Forestry and there he was. the man who always stood in front of his apartment, building, leaning against the right. Always wearing a raincoat, no matter

what the weather, no matter, what the season. So I picked up my pace. past him, but not before I heard him mutter books, books. And so I stopped and I turned back and I went up to him and I said you sell books and Wordless Lee. He turned and walked around that railing and down the steps toward the basement apartment, It amazes me today to think that I followed him. This dark basement apartment light filtering through dirty windows and there Thousands of books- arranged horizontally on shelves, but stacks. dozens and dozens of stacks of books all around the room.

I've been looking for a book called the morning watch by James Age. I wonder if you might have ever heard of it. It's Panada print for a long time. Without a word, he walks over to the court the room and gets a ladder and brings it over to one of the stacks of books and so only climbs the steps of the ladder and reaches up and flux. The top book off of this stance, and hands it down to me. The morning watched by James Age, I was speechless And then, finally, how much two bucks so region in my wallet I pulled out a couple of singles. I handed them up to you, you wanna bag? No thanks. And I walked across the room and

outside an up those stairs back to the hot sun, lit sidewalk. My book. In my hand, a story to tell that was deal with joy. to redeploy is a chemical psychologist who practices rights and teachers in the New Mexico Desert, devil it causes kids peace, and social justice. He serves the board of Trustees of Robert Kennedy, human rights, a collection, historians will be published in the spring of twenty twenty two deceitful, two of the morning watch had to our website the moth dot org, slash extras. That's all for this episode whatever you're looking for whether it's a book some wheels or something a little less tangible. We hope you find it from all of us here at the mouth. Have

story worthy start to the new year. Jody power has banned them for more than five years. She is a producer director, an educator who enjoys Listening in seeking stories from beyond the main corridors, Julie from Jamaica, she currently lives in Harlem the soul of a moth podcast was produced by Sarah stinginess. Sarah Jane Johnson marks Ollinger Julia Personnel and me Davy, somewhere the rest of the MOSS leadership team includes Catherine Burns. Sarah Haber mean Jennifer, Hickson, MEG, Bulls, Kate, tellers. Jennifer, Birmingham, Marina Cliche, Suzanne, rust, Brandon, Grant Inga Glinda, whiskey in all the Kazaa, almost stories true as remembered by storytellers for more about our broadcast information on pitching your own story and everything else visit our website, the moth dot org them

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