Welcome to bedtime stories for everyone in which nothing much happens.

You feel good and then you fall asleep.

I'm Catherine Nicolai.

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

Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim.

Thanks to your support, we give to a different charity each week.

This week we are giving to the Fred Rogers Institute at FredRodgersInstitute.org.

Their purpose is to advance the legacy of Fred Rogers by investing in the strengths of

family and caring adults to support the healthy development of children.

Learn more at the link in our show notes.

Now we need a bridge between our daily lives and good sleep.

A way to create a little space for your mind to rest in.

And that's what our stories are.

They're a soft space to settle.

Learning what happens in them, there's nothing to keep track of.

Just listen and relax and sleep will come.

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

If you wake again in the night, you can turn a story right back on or just think through

any detail from it that you can remember.

Doing that shifts your brain right back into a place where it will fall asleep.

Now, it's time to set things down and switch off the lights.

Get your eye mask or your teddy bear or your favorite pillow and get as comfortable as

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