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🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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When Heidi Shin had her first baby, she took an entire year to care for her daughter full-time. For the most part, she loved it. But she also felt like she was losing part of herself to motherhood. So she decides to take a work trip to an island off the coast of South Korea. She comes away with an unexpected discovery about motherhood and herself.
Check out more of Heidi’s work. Listen to Heidi’s full story for PRI, Diving with the last generation of Korea’s Mermaids.
Produced by Heidi Shin and Shaina Shealy, original score by Renzo Gorrio
Artwork by Teo Ducot
Season 12 - Episode 31
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0:06.0 | skills. |
0:09.2 | Under today's New World Order, with the kids out going to school on their kitchen |
0:39.0 | tables, only seeing their friends on a video screen playing basketball alone I |
0:44.9 | wonder what this reduction will steal from their psyche I wonder if as their |
0:53.0 | world contracts condenses I wonder if their dreams they'll grow smaller as well |
1:01.0 | or or like a diamond under pressure do those dreams our dreams our |
1:07.0 | intentions do they become even more beautiful more expansive more paradigm |
1:14.2 | shifting in short it is all of this the cool for the butterfly let's explore |
1:26.4 | from snap judgment six feet of isolation layer you probably present deep |
1:34.5 | dive amazing stories from people going all in my name is from Washington no |
1:40.5 | this butterflies are everywhere you're listening to snap judgment |
2:11.5 | now that on a deep dive episode one day Heidi Shen she walked into the |
2:18.8 | newsroom of her local public radio station and Heidi had a story idea snap |
2:26.7 | judgment |
2:28.9 | and what's the story exactly so the story was but henos the locals in |
2:44.7 | korea actually sometimes call them mermaids and you know they're |
2:49.1 | elderly like in their 60s and 70s and 80s so so they're like granis they |
2:54.3 | scour the ocean for things like abalone and conscience see we didn't they're |
2:59.0 | actually like plunging to the ocean's floor diving down there without any gear |
3:03.3 | why are you attracted to this story yeah my mom had told me stories about |
3:08.2 | their roots when I was growing up I actually grew up in New York on Long Island |
3:13.0 | there's just one time we were like digging for clams on in the bay near a house my |
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