Cuba Libre: A Meditative Story

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Leila travels back to Cuba —and to her 20s —in this special episode about Havana, dance, hair, proud negras, and finding your voice. This story is told in collaboration with Meditative Story, hosted by Rohan Gunatillake.

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0:00.0	Hey Hannah, hey Lila, have you ever thought that storytelling could be meditative?
0:13.8	Meditative.
0:15.8	Yeah, like if there were ways that we could reflect on a story to help us move through something
0:21.2	or have some clarity in some way, I mean, it feels like a lot of stories do that, right?
0:29.6	But I guess we don't realize we're working through something or we're processing something.
0:36.5	Mm-hmm.
0:37.5	We're just telling the story.
0:39.0	Yeah, well, I wanted to do something different today.
0:41.4	Mm-hmm.
0:42.4	Recently, someone reached out to me and they asked me if I had a story that I haven't told
0:46.8	before, something that changed my life in some way, something that could be meditative.
0:52.6	Ooh, I'm liking this, say more.
0:57.6	So it's this concept of a podcast called Meditative Story, and it combines immersive storytelling
1:03.8	with mindfulness practice.
1:06.0	Mm-hmm.
1:07.0	And they interview people like Isabella Yende, the writer, or former footballer Al Harris.
1:13.4	Mm-hmm.
1:14.4	Okay, so then today, stupid listeners, we're going to do something a little different.
1:20.4	We're going to listen to a story in a different way through the lens of meditative story.
1:26.8	So take some deep breaths and take it all in.
1:33.8	Ooh.
1:43.1	I'm taking you back to Havana in my 20s, and today we're going to share this very special
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