Episode 3: Sweater

The Heart is an audio art project about power and love. From CBC Podcasts, Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia. SISTERS is a 5 episode series that follows the journey of an older and younger sister from birth to adulthood. Natalie and Kaitlin went from being childhood rivals to being best friends. When the sisters decide to work together to create the very podcast series you are about to listen to, they face challenges they never anticipated. Sibling rivalry, mental health struggles and the daunting task of creating an audio series about it all: can these women overcome the patterns they learned in childhood and live in harmony as adults? More episodes are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/EwjPkQgw

"When love beckons to you, follow [it] ... And when [its] wings enfold you yield to [it], Though the sword hidden among [its] pinions may wound you. ... For even as love crowns you so shall [it] crucify you. Even as [it] is for your growth so is [it] for your pruning." - Kahlil Gibran, On Love

"These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them." - Rumi

"Love is being there every day, to keep someone warm, to hold them through the night, to make them feel cozy." - Sweater

"Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme." - Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity

"A decided heart looks for a solution. An undecided heart looks for a way out." - Tom, a regular at the Bramasole Diner

"With every commitment there is much that it rejects. Much that it excludes." - Adam Phillips, Unforbidden Pleasures