“What better to dedicate your life to than your children, right?” said Jami Miyamoto, a woman who went to China to adopt a girl. Such a nice motto to send to every parent! It’s a beautiful story that the mother has spent her whole life just to take a good care of this little baby since she was just 10 months old. The audio depicts the mother-daughter bonding really well when selectively picking up the conversation between the mother and the adopted daughter, showing their respect and love for each other. The same techniques are also used in “’We Mesh Together Like One’: A Miami Love Story”, a love story about a Chinese man with his foreign wife starting from the day they first met in his restaurant in Miami, Florida and how their love was forever-lasted.
Basically, both recordings are produced with the same structures: starting off with intro music and narrative’s introduction, two main characters involving each other’s life having a conversation and sharing their most memorable and beautiful moments, and ending with some soothing music, to draw out precious relationships in life in a peaceful way. I can visualize that among the mess in our world, there are still beautiful things, hopes, and faith going on. Sometimes in life, we have struggled with many things and that may make us forget about what is truly meaningful to us. Many people didn’t have such good relationships, they ended up disbelieving in people. However, been through many struggles in life, I have learned to be more generous, forgiving and enduring. The more I give out, the more I regain back. Listening these two stories, I’m not only feel the power of love and forgiveness between the husband and the wife or the mother and the daughter, but also the universal love among human. We thus should live for today and tomorrow.
The voices of people involving in the records are very clean and sound natural, expressing their emotions very well-rounded and making the stories more vivid. The producers know how to value the listeners by engaging the audience with simple slices of life, thus sounding familiar and close to us.