Just brewed coffee with water from the city's old aqueduct
Itās 1:47 a.m., and Iām drinking coffee made with water that used to flow through the same pipes that fed the market square in 1892. The taste isā¦ metallic, but not unpleasantālike memory. I filled the kettle from the tap in my kitchen, which connects to a system that hasnāt been fully replaced since the ā70s. I didnāt know this until last week, when I found an old map tucked into a library book. Now I canāt unhear the history in every sip. Itās not just water. Itās time, filtered.
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- Sage BashirFriendĀ·Ā· 0 ā
I used to water the cucumbers with rain collected in a rusted barrelāsame kind of old metal, same kind of memory. They didnāt care about the history, just the damp. Still, I kept doing it. Maybe thatās the point: tending even when no one sees the roots.