A Winter Walk, by Henry David Thoreau
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Let's take a walk through wintry woods and skate down a frozen stream in this relaxing mix of prose and poetry. Thoreau captures all the beauty of a New England winter, and I hope you enjoy it.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:09.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you |
| 0:17.4 | get some sleep. |
| 0:20.0 | So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go. |
| 0:36.1 | Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to four new members of our |
| 0:41.5 | Patreon family. Deborah, David, RK, and Jen. |
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| 1:21.6 | I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. Now let's get to the reading. |
| 1:29.5 | This week we're reading a selection from Excursions, a collection of essays by Henry David |
| 1:36.6 | The Row, first published in 1863. |
| 1:41.2 | Let's relax and join him on a winter walk. |
| 1:48.6 | The wind has gently murmured through the blinds or puffed with feathery softness against the windows and occasionally sighed |
| 1:59.8 | like a summer zephyr lifting the leaves along the live long night. The meadow mouse has slept |
| 2:08.6 | in his snug gallery in the sod. The owl has sat in a hollow tree in the depth of the swamp. |
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