A Rock Across a Lake

Ear Hustle

Ear Hustle & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We’ve never based a whole episode on a poem before, but this one, by Sky, took us by surprise. It’s both a record of longing for all the things she can’t do in prison — sleep in a teepee, have a cookie jar, touch a rabbit — and a way of doing those things in her mind.

Big thanks to Acting Warden Andes and Lt. Berry at San Quentin State Prison, and Acting Warden Williams and Lt. Newborg at the California Institution for Women for their support of the show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	At a time when information continues to come at us faster and faster, sometimes you need to hit pause.
0:07.0	And rewind.
0:10.0	NPR's Thuleine takes you back in time to the source of the news stories filling your
0:17.0	feed. Find NPR's Thuleine wherever you get your podcasts. I want to see the new horizons and explore the world around me.
0:40.4	Smell a puppy, hug a horse.
0:46.0	Listen to birds sing, go to the zoo, bake loaves of bread, lay in a meadow.
0:51.0	Pick a flower and watch it.
0:54.0	Smell it.
0:56.0	Grow a tree.
0:58.0	Have a plant in dirt.
1:00.0	Have cases of chewing gum.
1:04.0	Go to a used bookstore.
1:06.0	Buy another camera.
1:08.0	I make postcards again.
1:10.0	Go to a fancy place to eat. I'd like to go to a ghost town.
1:17.0	Walk in it, sit down and take it all in.
1:21.0	Drink out of a real glass. Sleep in the raw, be in the raw for
1:27.6	hours. Go to a pound. Buy some clothes just for me.
1:35.0	Have an ice box. Take a long bath for hours. I want to throw a rock across the lake, draw some patterns, do blankets
1:50.4	out of the yarn again. Make a plant hanger from ceiling to floor. Have a real
1:55.8	door with no windows in it. Have a tall mirror.
2:03.0	Have a cookie jar again.
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