{"id":31028,"date":"2021-08-04T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?p=31028"},"modified":"2021-08-04T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T11:21:46","slug":"toma-mate-responses-to-an-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/toma-mate-responses-to-an-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a1Tom\u00e1 mate! Responses to an invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project":[353,795],"project_type":[743],"class_list":["post-31028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","project-online-publications","project-untranslatable","project_type-themes"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"For me, <em>mate<\/em> means all those obvious and kind of cheesy things like companionship \u2013 with myself or others. Nowadays, working from home, something very beautiful happens with my colleagues. Every time we have a meeting, each of us prepares a mate and I have the feeling that we are in the same circle that we used to be part of in the office. For me it\u2019s something very intimate; I don\u2019t share it. Who doesn\u2019t know mate, to any latte prays.<sup class=\"is-footnote\">1<\/sup> For me it\u2019s quite a ceremony. It\u2019s my favorite time of the day, reading the newspaper. I drink it bitter and when it\u2019s lost its flavor. With my mom, with honey. With other people, always bitter. When I\u2019m by myself, bitter; but recently it started to give me heartburn so I\u2019ve started putting honey in again, and citrus peel. I don\u2019t drink it that much because it increases my anxiety. I moved to Uruguay, where I acquired a university culture about what a mate is, how to make a mate, the respect that the yerba deserves. For me mate is everything. I measure the difficulty of my final exams in mate thermoses. For me, drinking mate changed its meaning during my eating disorder. I didn\u2019t like it that much until I started using it to make me feel full when I was hungry. Eventually I recovered and now I drink it when I crave the taste, but it still reminds me of those times. The most important things that go through my head come to me in the morning with a mate in my hand. For me, mate is a hug that you don\u2019t want to let go of. I\u2019mnot much of a mate drinking person, so I don\u2019t think my testimony will help you. Mate for me is my uncle before going to sleep at night. It is a way to recognize yourself in others when they drink it. It is asking a stranger for something as intimate as sharing a straw without that being weird. I drink mate by myself, in the early morning, sitting on the couch and looking at the backyard. For me it\u2019s very popular because of the fact that it\u2019s cheap. My husband and I used to prepare mate for ourselves in the morning and we would start talking, solving our problems while drinking mate. It has an enormous strength to resist over the years. People just want mate, not mate flavored sweets or mate flavored sodas. Drink mate!<sup class=\"is-footnote\">2<\/sup>It\u2019s a companionship, for sure. Partly a friend. Partly my grandmother. It\u2019s been very strange not sharing it this year. And I believe Uruguayans need to stop saying that mate is theirs; they don\u2019t produce yerba. You feel an aura, a sense of presence, an aromatic connection that brings you back to earth and to a complicity with yourself and with whom you\u2019re sharing it. Is there anything more disgusting than a mate done wrong? A friend said that the first time you put the kettle on to drink mate by yourself, you are an adult. Mate for me is the last thing I still have. Thank you for asking, but it\u2019s difficult. Two things come to my mind, on the one hand heartburn and on the other one of the most beautiful encounters that I have with myself. We are talking about drinking mate by oneself, right? Drinking mate with friends is another thing. That\u2019s why I\u2019msaying it\u2019s quite contradictory but those two things happen to me with mate. Anyway, I hope something from all this works for you."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"Para mi el mate significa todas las cosas obvias y medio cursis del orden de la compa\u00f1ia, con uno mismo o con otres. Hoy en d\u00eda, trabajando desde casa, pasa algo muy hermoso con mis compa\u00f1eros y compa\u00f1eras. Cada vez que tenemos una reuni\u00f3n, cada unx se prepara el mate y a m\u00ed me da la sensaci\u00f3n de que estamos en la misma ronda que compart\u00edamos en la oficina. Para m\u00ed es algo \u00edntimo, yo no lo comparto. Quien no conoce el mate a cualquier latte le reza. Para m\u00ed es toda una ceremonia. Es mi momento preferido del dia. Leyendo el diario. Lo tomo amargo y lavado. Yo con mi vieja, con miel. Con otras personas siempre amargo. Y cuando estoy sola amargo pero hace poco me empez\u00f3 a dar mucha acidez entonces le estoy volviendo a poner miel y cascaritas de c\u00edtricos. Yo no tomo mucho porque me potencia la ansiedad. Yo me fui a vivir a uruguay y ah\u00ed adquir\u00ed una cultura universitaria de lo que es un mate, de c\u00f3mo se prepara un mate, del respeto que se le tiene a la yerba. Para mi el mate es todo. Mido la dificultad de mis finales en termos de mate. Para m\u00ed el mate cambi\u00f3 de significado durante mi desorden alimenticio. No me gustaba mucho hasta que lo empec\u00e9 a usar para llenarme cuando ten\u00eda hambre. Eventualmente recuperada, ahora lo tomo cuando se me antoja el gusto, pero sigue record\u00e1ndome de esas \u00e9pocas. Las cosas m\u00e1s importan tes que pasan por mi cabeza me pasan a la ma\u00f1ana con un mate en la mano. Para m\u00ed el mate es un abrazo que no quer\u00e9s soltar. Yo no soy mucho de tomar mate, no creo que te sirva mi testimonio. El mate para mi es mi tio a la noche antes de irse a dormir. Es reconocerse en otres cuando lo toman. Es pedirle a une extra\u00f1e algo tan \u00edntimo como compartir una bombilla sin que sea raro. Tomo mates sola, a la ma\u00f1ana temprano, sentada en el sillon y mirando el patio. Para mi es muy popular por eso, es barato. Con mi marido nos prepar\u00e1bamos un mate a la ma\u00f1ana y ah\u00ed nos pon\u00edamos a hablar, a resolver los problemas tomando mate. Tiene una fuerza enorme para resistir a traves de los a\u00f1os. La gente solo quiere mate, no golosinas de mate ni gaseosas de mate. \u00a1Toma mate! Es una compa\u00f1\u00eda sin dudas. Un poco un amigue. Un poco mi abuela tambi\u00e9n. Este a\u00f1o fue extra\u00f1\u00edsimo no compartirlo. Y creo que los uruguayos tienen que dejar de decir que el mate es de ellos, ellos no producen yerba. Sent\u00eds un aura, un clima de presencia, una arom\u00e1tica conexi\u00f3n, que te vuelve a la tierra y a una complicidad con vos mismx o con quienes lo est\u00e9s compartiendo.\u00bfHay algo m\u00e1s feo que un mate que sale mal? Un amigo dec\u00eda que la primera vez que pon\u00e9s la pava para tomar mate solo\/a ya sos grande. El mate para mi es lo \u00faltimo que me queda. Gracias por preguntarme, pero es dif\u00edcil. Se me vienen a la cabeza dos cosas, por un lado acidez y por otro lado uno de los encuentros m\u00e1s lindos que tengo conmigo misma. Estamos hablando de tomarse un mate sola \u00bfno? Tomar un mate con amigos es otra cosa. Por eso te digo, es bastante contradictoria pero me pasan esas dos cosas con el mate. En fin, espero te sirva de algo todo esto."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_footnotes","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Fu\u00dfnoten","bgcolor":"","footnotes_list_hide_numbers":false,"footnotes":[{"footnote":"From the phrase \u00bbWho doesn\u2019t know God, to any saint prays,\u00ab meaning who doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s good, conforms to anything."},{"footnote":"From the expression \u00bb\u00a1Tom\u00e1 mate!,\u00ab a reply to news that causes surprise."}]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","acfe_flexible_layout_title":"Text","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<p class=\"p1 is-size-6\"><strong>Giuliana Kiersz<\/strong>, born 1991 in Buenos Aires, is a writer, playwright, and artist. Her work explores our relationship with language, analyzing what language itself collects and how we can collectively express our emotions and experiences to reflect on difference through the lens of sameness. As part of her investigations, she has organized writing gatherings in different contexts around the world. These are sensitive and political spaces in which to reflect on the territories we collectively inhabit. Her texts have been translated into English, French, and Portuguese and are published by Rara Avis Editorial, Libros del Rojas, Fondo Editorial ENSAD, Editorial INTeatro, Espejo Somos, and Libros Drama.<\/p>"}],"intro_preview_headline":"Giuliana Kiersz","intro_preview_txt":"","intro_preview_img":31029,"post_id_old":"","post_author":null,"post_subtitle":"Giuliana Kiersz","post_preview_img_hide_on_single":true,"post_txt_old":"","post_pdf":null,"post_copyright":"ccl_default","translated_post":false,"translations":null,"post_copyright_individual":"","post_related_posts":"","related_posts_post":[9193]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31028\/revisions"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/9193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=31028"},{"taxonomy":"project_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_type?post=31028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}