Kathryn Nicolai
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1,487 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Sep
Kathryn Nicolai’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were just a few others.
And all of us carried the same energy.
But
End of the day quietude.
The morning zip converted into a lived in rhythm.
That had us ambling rather than rushing to the platforms.
I found a bench near the tracks and set my bag down beside me.
A long sigh left my lungs, and I clasped my hands in my lap, looking out past the platforms and into the field beyond.
Whippoorwills gathered on a distant rooftop, and their calls echoed in the evening air.
On a bench further down the platform, a man sat with a boy dressed in soccer gear, a ball on his lap.
The boy leaned against his dad, who shifted to put one arm around him.
He murmured some small joke that made the boy smile, and the smile turned into a long yawn.
His eyelids drooped as he tipped his head onto his dad's shoulder.
His yawn became my own, and I stretched my arms overhead, flipping my palms inside out and feeling my joints creak and pop.
Pandiculation, I thought to myself as I rolled my shoulders and settled back in to wait for my train.
I'd looked it up a week or two before, that kind of long and often involuntary stretch that makes you yawn and shiver and sometimes twist your face into funny shapes.
I'd learned it had a name, pandiculation.
And a purpose, that it eases tension and helps your mind and body sink back up after a period of inactivity, which is why it hits us most in the mornings.
It was also one of those things that our bodies did.
To help us close out stress cycles and return to neutral.
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