"Colum the Common Pigeon" from the Sparkle Sleepytime collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the Sparkle Sleepytime collection.
It's called "Colum the Common Pigeon."
Colum wants to go somewhere that no pigeon has gone before. He wants to discover a new land that has never been visited and he can't wait until he is old enough to go. When an experienced pigeon arrives in their coop from a foreign land, Colum learns that newness can be found in each moment, and exploring is all about what is new for you and only you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, friends. Welcome. It's the Sparkle Stories podcast, and this is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. I love bringing you stories each week. |
| 0:16.9 | We continue our series of stories about courage with a story called Column, the common pigeon from Sparkle Sleepy Time. |
| 0:25.9 | Now, first of all, be warned, this is a sleepy time story. |
| 0:29.8 | It is built to relax. |
| 0:32.0 | It is built to inspire you to rest. |
| 0:34.6 | So you may not want to listen to this one in the car. That includes you, moms and dads. |
| 0:39.9 | This might be a better one for listening when it's quiet time or we're safely at home or someplace |
| 0:45.5 | comfortable. So this story is about Collum, who is a young pigeon, who is a very brave guy. He wants to go |
| 0:53.0 | places no pigeon has gone before. |
| 0:54.9 | He is ready that little pigeon to discover new lands. |
| 0:58.8 | But he's a little guy. |
| 1:01.0 | And an older, more experienced pigeon teaches him that he can explore and be brave right here and now |
| 1:07.8 | just by discovering what's in each moment because there's newness in every single |
| 1:14.0 | moment, every single place. Okay, so listen in and find out about Colum's journey, his adventurous |
| 1:21.5 | spirit, and how he brings it to right now. Before I play Column, the Common Pigeon, I want to encourage you to subscribe. If you're not |
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| 1:42.8 | you can listen to every single story we've got. |
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| 1:57.5 | Okay, now here's today's story. |
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