"The Gentle Woodsman and the Final Fall Phoebe" from the By Thistle By Thimble collection
Sparkle Stories Podcast
Lisabeth Sewell
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
This week's featured story comes from the By Thistle By Thimble collection.
It's called "The Gentle Woodsman and the Final Fall Phoebe."
At an early age Tobias knew he would never marry. His love of the natural world gave him the sense of connection and dedication that he perceived marriage to be. Not until he is an old man and a late-to-migrate phoebe bird leads him to Dorothea, an expert forager who lives on the other side of the forest — only then does Tobias realize that there is a special kind of magic that comes from spending regular time with a particular friend.
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| 0:00.0 | Sparkle friends, hello, and welcome to the Sparkle Stories podcast. This is Elizabeth of Sparkle |
| 0:14.6 | Stories. And this week, I have a love story, a love story for the Valentine's time of year. Now this year, |
| 0:23.0 | 2026, we are sharing stories specifically about the things we hold dearest here at Sparkle. |
| 0:29.6 | And that's creativity and wonder and play and connection. And this month, I'm adding the theme of love. |
| 0:40.0 | So this story is called the gentle woodsman and the final fall, Phoebe. I've never shared it here on the podcast. It's from the |
| 0:44.6 | Bithistle by Thimble Collection, and it's for ages six and up. It is a dear story of two very |
| 0:51.2 | unique people that find each other in a delightful way. So I hope you enjoy |
| 0:57.1 | people of all ages. This delightful little story perfect for Valentine's. Before I share this |
| 1:04.6 | story, I want to encourage you, if you're not yet a subscriber, join us. It's really easy. All you have to do is go to SparklStories.com |
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| 1:20.6 | and you'll have immediate access to our library. You can listen as much as you like as often as you |
| 1:26.8 | like. Okay, now onto the story, |
| 1:30.2 | The Gentle Woodsman and the last fall Phoebe. |
| 2:00.0 | There was once upon a time a family that lived in a simple home at the edge of a vast wood. |
| 2:08.9 | The mother and father were blessed with three children, two sons, and one daughter, and each |
| 2:15.1 | of them made their parents proud in their own way. |
| 2:20.4 | The daughter married the son of a neighboring farmer who had fields and wheat and corn |
| 2:27.4 | and a barn full of animals. She loved being a mother and had many children. |
| 2:35.5 | She and her husband lived well and happily together. |
| 2:41.4 | The youngest son also married into a local family and apprenticed to his bride's father, |
| 2:50.0 | a successful tailor that sold his wares to a number of |
| 2:54.5 | townships. The young man and his wife moved into a house in town, and after a number of years |
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