Wild Grapes: The Heart-shaped pool has two kids playing in it with their Mom nearby, as you walk toward it

Harbin ethnography:


... Rose finds the pools and this possibility wonderful, and says so.

The Heart-shaped pool has two kids playing in it with their Mom nearby, as you walk toward it. The kids are talking with each other, which people can do in the Heart-shaped pool, but not in the warm, hot or cold pools. Kids are only allowed in the Heart-shaped pool and the swimming pool, and only from 10a-8p, because these pools have shallow parts, and kids can also be noisy. As a retreat, Harbin would like most of the the pools, and Harbin itself, to remain quiet, and generally free of kids. The very cold pool, near the Heart-shaped pool, was just put in, and redone, in around 2008, and is located right outside the sauna and the steam room, which were also built in around 2007. Step heatedly out of the very hot sauna or the steam room, and descend into the cold plunge, and become alive. The 7th pond, a little fish and lily pond lie between the warm pool and the entrance to the sauna. Rose smiles warmly at the kids.












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/04/wild-grapes-heart-shaped-pool-has-two_21.html - April 21, 2010)