Welcome to bedtime stories for grown-ups, in which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Negoli.

I write and read all the stories you hear on nothing much happens, with audio engineering

by Bob Widersheim.

Bob and I are sending you a re-release of an episode today, because I'm just getting

over a cold that has been really rough on my voice.

I may sound okay now, but after a minute or so, I get really creaky, and I'm afraid

that I'll wake you up.

And I want to say that this may happen from time to time.

We've been publishing non-stop for four years now, and we'll take breaks for a week or

so, a few times a year in the future, because everybody needs a break.

In the meantime, we hope you will enjoy this favorite of mine from season five.

Now, let's get ready to sleep.

I'll read you a story.

It's a place to rest your mind, like an upturned leaf resting on the surface of a river.

Your mind will follow along with the moving current of my voice and our story.

And before you know it, it will ease you into deep sleep.

I'll read the story twice, and I'll go a little slower on the second read.

If you wake in the night, take yourself back into the story, thinking back through any

bit you can remember.

This interrupts your brain's tendency to cycle through thought, and we'll put you right

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