The Back Stairs

Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep

Wellness Loud

Fiction, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 11.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Our story tonight is called The Back Stairs, and it’s a story about a bit of spring cleaning at the Inn by the lake. It’s also about the special features and details in old houses, clever engineering, the honesty of patina and a space where imperfection is welcome. We give to a different charity each week, and this week, we are giving to World Central Kitchen provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. It builds resilient food systems with locally-led solutions. Subscribe for ad-free, bonus, and extra-long episodes now, as well as ad-free and early episodes of Stories from the Village of Nothing Much! Search for NMH Premium channel on Apple Podcasts, or follow the link below https://www.nothingmuchhappens.com/premium-subscription. Listen to our new show, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, on your favorite podcast app. Purchase Our Book: https://bit.ly/Nothing-Much-Happens See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone, in which nothing much happens. You feel good and then you fall asleep.
0:15.0	I'm Catherine Nikolai.
0:18.0	I read and write all the stories you hear and nothing much happens.
0:27.0	Audio engineering is by Bob Widdersheim.
0:31.0	We give to a different charity each week, and this week we are giving to World Central Kitchen,
0:40.0	providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises.
0:49.3	Learn more about them in our show notes. Our goal is to be here for you throughout the day, throughout
1:00.5	your life.
1:06.0	When you need a soft landing into dreams,
1:12.0	a way to get centered and practice useful techniques for equanimity, And when you need a trip to the village, where kindness is commonplace
1:20.1	and small pleasures are enjoyed.
1:22.0	So we have three and small pleasures are enjoyed.
1:28.0	So we have three shows for that, just three for now. Who knows what will dream up next?
1:37.8	To start your day with a 10 minute guided meditation, subscribe to first this, for a livelier, immersive daytime version of our tales.
1:45.0	Search for stories from the village of nothing much.
1:50.0	And of course, let me tuck you in at bedtime, here on nothing much happens.
1:57.2	You can listen to everything for free, right where you are listening now.
2:06.5	Or support us by joining our premium channels.
2:10.1	Learn more at nothing much happens.com or the stories work
2:15.0	stories work by occupying just enough of your mind to keep it from wandering.
2:27.4	If we can find a point of soft focus,
2:31.2	we have a clear path to sleep.
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