The Oh, Hello Sparkle friends welcome to the Sparkle stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories. Today's story is about

joy and most importantly that your joy is your compass. That's one of my favorite little lessons. Your joy is your compass. What does that mean? It means that the things in your life that bring you joy that make you feel all kind of percolatey inside that make your heart feel big and expansive.

That's your compass. That means you're meant to put your attention there or your

energy or your time. And this is something I think for myself. I tell my kids and I say to my friends, I just deeply believe this.

And so I've picked a story called Haladora the Humpback Whale. And it's from the Sparkle Sleepy Time collection.

This is for ages three and up. It's a sleepy time story, but it's also a story about a little whale calf who truly has her own joy and it leads her to a wonderful, wonderful new experience that she's dreamed about.

So listen in, maybe you pick this at a rest time or a sleepy time because it is a sleepy time story and enjoy an experience of joy.

So the story you're just about to listen to is a part of our giant library of original audio stories.

We have almost 1,500 original stories

here at Sparkle Stories.

That's a lot of really sweet stories and you can enjoy them all for free for a week.

All you have to do is go to sparkle stories.com, click the button at the top that says start free trial.

And then you can listen to as much as you like,

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Okay, now, onto the story,

Haladora, the Humpback Whale from the Sparkle Sleepy Time Collection.

Enjoy. You're going to do you.

You're going to do you.

And you're going to do you

and

and do you

and do you do you and do you Once upon a time there was a gentle humpback whale calf named Halderra who swam with a small pod or group of humpback

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