Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone, in which nothing much happens, you feel good. And then you fall asleep. I'm Catherine Nikolai. I

write and read everything you hear on nothing much happens.

Audio engineering is by Bob Widdersheim.

We give to a different charity each week.

And this week we are giving to a wider circle whose purpose is to end poverty for one individual and one family after another.

Learn more about them in our show notes.

For more nothing much in your life,

we invite you to listen to our daytime show called Stories from the Village of Nothing Much,

where you have a shot at actually hearing the story.

It has lovely soundscapes and I've been dropping some behind the scenes details on your favorite

characters and storylines there. You can subscribe to our premium feeds for bonus episodes nothing much happens.

Today the July bonus comes out.

It's called Golden Hour. And I love that story.

Find more about all of it, as well as our sleepy time wind down boxes in our show notes.

Now, this is a tested and true technique for falling asleep and returning to sleep if you wake in the night.

It works by occupying your mind just enough to keep it from

wandering, giving it a job to do so that it stays put.

And the job is just to listen.

The story is simple and calm,

and there's nothing to keep track of.

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

Don't hesitate to turn it back on if you wake later and feel your brain beginning to gear up.

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