Welcome to bedtime stories for grown-ups, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Katherine Nicolai.

I write and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

Audio engineering is by Bob Witterschheim.

Starting this month will be bringing you even more nothing much.

So look for a new episode every single Monday.

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Now let me say a bit about how this podcast works.

I am about to tell you a bedtime story.

And the story, if you let it, will become a place to rest your mind.

When your mind has a place to rest, you will drop off into sleep.

It really is that simple.

It's one of our minds, run wild, that we can't find sleep.

So follow along with the sound of my voice and the simple shape of the tail.

And probably before I finish, you'll be sound asleep.

I'll read the story twice and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

If you wake again in the middle of the night, try just thinking your way back through whatever

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