Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone in which nothing much happens. You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

I create everything you hear on nothing much happens.

With audio engineering by Bob Wittersheim.

New Show Alert.

It's called Stories from the Village of Nothing Much.

And it brings our stories out of their sleepy nook and into the daylight, with lovely soundscapes and the non- sleep-inducing version of my voice.

I swear I have one.

You can soothe anxiety, ground yourself in goodness, and finally hear the end of the story.

Listen now on your favorite podcast app.

Just search stories from the village of nothing much.

Our charity this week is Affirmations of Ferndale,

a charity close to my heart and my home.

Affirms works to provide a welcoming space

where all LGBT-QIA-plus folks can find support

and unconditional acceptance and where they can learn, grow,

socialize, and feel safe. We have a link to them in our show notes.

Now, let me say a little about how this works. Maybe you have had this experience, where you're reading in bed in maybe not even a very

comfortable position and you're not really taking in what you're reading, but you're pushing your eyes along the line of

text and you can't stay awake. The book keeps falling in your face. the book

down,

down, and you set your book down, turn off the light

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