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.

Audioengineering is by Bob Witterschheim.

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I like the idea that you could be walking down the street in your neighborhood and pass

someone and recognize our logo on their sleeve.

A fellow resident of the village of nothing much.

Someone else who cares about gentleness and ordinary magic.

And of course you can subscribe to our ad-free and bonus episodes at the same spot that's

nothingmuchhappens.com.

Now let me say a bit about how to use this podcast.

Instead of letting your overstimulated brain run roughshod over you, this story will guide

it someplace calm and relaxed.

And its natural response will be to power down and allow you to sleep.

I'll tell the story twice and I'll go a bit slower the second time through.

If you wake in the middle of the night, you can listen again or just link back to any

details of the story that you can remember or even any pleasant memory of your own.

With practice falling asleep and returning to sleep quickly will become your go-to response.

Now it's time to turn off the light.

Get down anything you've been looking at and settle your body into your bed as deeply

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