Building the First Zeppelin (Premium)
Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
Slumber Studios
4.6 • 10.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Thomas here. You're listening to a preview episode. You can enjoy the entire story |
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| 1:00.2 | As he watched the white clouds drift slowly by, Ferdinand thought about all he had achieved |
| 1:09.7 | in his career. He'd spent much of it working with the German military, which had afforded |
| 1:18.2 | him many opportunities. Like the clouds that passed overhead, he had travelled all over |
| 1:26.2 | the world. He'd even made it across the ocean to America, where he served as an official |
| 1:34.0 | observer with the Union Army during the Civil War. |
| 1:38.6 | But now, in early retirement, Ferdinand felt as if there was still so much more to do, |
| 1:49.6 | as if he had yet to fulfil his life's true potential. The sound of laughter brought Ferdinand |
| 2:00.3 | out of his daydream and back to where he stood in the garden. He turned to see his 11-year-old |
| 2:09.0 | daughter, Helena, or hella for short, running gleefully through the hall toward him. |
| 2:18.4 | In her hands, she held a bright yellow kite. It was a gift from her uncle, given to her |
| 2:26.5 | during a recent trip to Berlin. She was excited as she told her father that finally, the weather |
| 2:36.9 | was perfect for flying a kite. Ferdinand smiled at her, agreeing that it certainly seemed |
| 2:44.9 | like a good day for it. With that, hella took her father's hand. |
| 2:54.8 | As they walked across the neatly cropped grass, Ferdinand thought of his own childhood, |
| 3:00.9 | here at the manor house, that was his ancestral home. The ground house was located high on |
| 3:09.1 | a hill, surrounded by open fields that stretched as far as the eye could see. In the distance |
| 3:18.5 | was a large forest where he would often go to play with his brother and sister. And just |
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