Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good, and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

I create everything you hear on nothing much happens, with audio engineering by Bob Wittershine.

We give to a different charity each week, and this week we are giving to the Nature Conservancy,

whose purpose is to tackle the dual threats of accelerated climate change and unprecedented

biodiversity loss.

We have a link to them in our show notes.

If you've been awake long enough to actually hear any stories lately, and wanted to get

just a bit more about the wedding at the end, marmalade and crumb and birdie, you can

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I wrote one more wedding story, and it's a bonus feature there.

We have our complete catalog there, all ad-free, and with dozens of other bonus stories.

One more at nothingmuchappens.com Now, when you listen to a bedtime story, you actually

shift your brain activity.

It moves from the sort of background static of default mode to the calm focus of task

positive mode.

And the good news is that you don't have to understand any of that for it to work.

All that's needed to train this reliable response is to follow along with the sound of my voice

and the simple shape of the story I have for you.

I'll tell it twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.

If you wake later and feel your brain turn back on, especially if it feels like your

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