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

I'm Catherine Nikolai.

I read and write all the stories you hear on nothing much happens.

With audio engineering by Bob Withersheme.

We give to a different charity each week.

And this week we are giving to the Save the Music Foundation,

helping kids, schools and communities realize their full potential through the power of making music.

Learn more about them in our show notes. Our stories are meant to ease you to sleep, but they can also really help to

ground you during the day, to soothe away anxiety, shift your mood, and just for the

enjoyment of a soft story with no conflict. In fact, we made a whole show for it. It's called

stories from the village of nothing much. It's free and you can find it on whatever app you are

listening to now. We just released an episode of Marmalade and Crumb stories. I tell them in a more lively voice and Bob creates

a beautiful soundscape to go with them.

Find more about stories from the village of nothing much, as well as our premium channels

through the links in our show notes.

Now, here's how this works.

If we can occupy your mind, just enough. We can rock it to sleep. That's sort of what this is. A lullaby for your thinking mind.

All you have to do is attend.

Listen.

Follow along with the sound of my voice, and we will get there.

If you're new to this, know that it is a kind of conditioning.

It improves with regular use, so be patient, keep tuning in.

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