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Ladies' Pond

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

No. 10 Pond is where I go swimming in the summer. All kinds of people go there. Kids, grownups, grandparents, mothers and fathers, dogs. But ALWAYS there is a group of ladies....standing thigh deep in the pond, talking together. All over the world since the beginning of time, ladies of a certain age have been standing thigh deep in water together, talking. It’s a scientific fact. So here in my town, for hundreds of years--even before recorded history--pieces of these ladies conversations have been drifting around on the pond. This is a show about No. 10 Pond, and the ladies who stand in it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Lodi

0:02.0

Ladi, did you do?

0:05.0

Do you call Russ cats?

0:23.6

Yeah?

0:25.6

Yeah, I slept hungry.

0:27.6

Frog!

0:28.6

Huh?

0:29.6

I found a frog.

0:33.6

Turtles!

0:38.3

Where?

0:40.3

You're making it up.

0:42.3

Okay.

0:44.3

Fly!

0:45.3

Dragon fly.

0:50.3

What's what you look at?

0:52.3

There's a giant at? People.

0:57.0

People.

0:59.9

The animal.

1:01.3

Human's got an animal.

1:05.0

I feel so resentful of how much time it takes to like clean the house, fold the socks,

1:15.5

wipe the clean, wash, you know, clean the toilet, you know, when I feel like this huge

1:23.0

pressure of time, like there's never enough time. But I find great beauty in these tiny moments of doing something inconsequential in life.

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