Footprints in the Snow (Premium)
Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories
Slumber Studios
4.6 • 10.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2019
⏱️ 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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| 0:59.7 | But it's not the rollicking blue of a Caribbean sea, nor the stony flat grey of the Atlantic |
| 1:09.0 | coast. It's the frozen sea of the polar north. The first frost gently still does rolling |
| 1:18.4 | waves to soft, thin curls of minty blue ice. Here it can freeze without snow. That's |
| 1:32.2 | why the first snow is a magical time for the people who live here. It happened a few |
| 1:39.2 | weeks ago. Mary remembers. She woke up one morning to find her window pane dusted with |
| 1:48.5 | fresh powder. That day, large heavy flakes drifted down from thick clouds in the slate grey |
| 1:58.6 | sky. People pulled their sleds out of storage. They strapped long skis to their feet. They |
| 2:08.7 | put away their sneakers and brought out their snowmobiles for travelling long distances |
| 2:15.2 | across the frozen sea. Now, the bright blue ice is mostly covered in a blanket of snow. |
| 2:26.0 | But bits of it peek through. A subtle glinting catches Mary's eye. She scans the surface, |
| 2:36.5 | trying to find the spot that flickered in the gentle light. She sees it just feet away |
| 2:45.7 | from her. A small patch of ice stands out, slick and shining. Mary looks closer. She |
| 2:58.3 | can see a single cloud reflected on its surface. Sky and ground become one. For some, it |
| 3:10.7 | can be hard to tell where land ends and sea begins. They blend together so perfectly in this |
| 3:18.6 | vast snow scape. But Mary can see the fine line that separates the two. She grew up wandering |
| 3:28.0 | this coastline. She knows the ups and downs of the winter landscape. She knows the crackling |
| 3:37.5 | sound of the water returning in spring. She knows the ebb and flow of the tides in the summer. |
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