As the team works on new cases for the fall and tries to get out into the water a bit, please enjoy this humble, playful offering from Caitlin Prest and The Heart called Suburban Wheredise.

From Mermaid Palace and Radiotopia, welcome to The Heart.

I'm Caitlin Prest, and this is Suburban Paradise, a somewhat non-sequiturly named oxymoronic title for this all-new season of The Heart, a radio-inspired, short-form, segment-oriented, experimental window into the places that I go, the thoughts that I think, and some sound playtime.

We begin with sound, with listening to the world around me that is now going to be

beCan you guess where I am? Do you know what time of year it is? What time of day? What the weather's like? Observing the sounds around us is a way of tuning in.

Julia Cameron says that giving attention is an act of connection.

And the reward that we get for that attention, for that connection, is healing.

[laughs]