(Originally Aired: February 23rd, 2020 Original: Season 5, Episode 4) Our story tonight is called All Day, At Home, and it’s a story about tucking yourself away from the world for a bit. It’s also about watching winter from a window seat, red pepper flakes from the Italian coast, and the joy of minding one’s own business. Subscribe to our Premium channel. The first month is on us. 💙 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to Bedtime Stories for Everyone, in which nothing much happens. You feel good, and then you fall asleep. I'm Katherine Nicolai. I write and read all the stories you hear on Nothing Much Happens. Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim. We are bringing you an encore episode tonight, meaning that this story originally aired at some point in the past.
It could have been recorded with different equipment in a different location. And since I'm a person... And not a computer. I sometimes sound just slightly different. But the stories are always soothing and family-friendly. And our wishes for you are always deep rest and sweet dreams. So I'm about to tell you a bedtime story. And the story is like a soft landing spot for your mind.
Rather than letting your brain race through the same thoughts you've been chasing all day, we are going to take a detour to a calm and cozy place. I'll tell this story twice, and I'll go a bit slower the second time through. If you wake again in the middle of the night, just walk yourself back through any of the details that you remember. and you'll drop right back off.
We get better at what we do habitually, so be patient if you are new to this. Your sleep will improve with time and practice. Our story tonight is called All Day at Home, and it's a story about tucking yourself away from the world for a bit It's also about watching winter from a window seat, red pepper flakes from the Italian coast, and the joy of minding one's own business.
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Responders are ready to support you, no matter what you're going through. Now it's time to turn off the light. Take one last sip of water and snuggle down into your favorite sleeping position. Get your pillow in the perfect spot and take a slow, deep breath in through your nose and out through your mouth. Nice. Do that one more time. Breathe in and out.
good. All day, at home.
It wasn't the weather that kept me home today, though there were certainly still drifts of snow banked beside the front door, and a low gray sky that hinted at more to come. It was just that feeling when I woke the feeling of being a bit overexposed to the world, of needing a day of quiet to myself that helped me make up my mind.
As I stirred my morning cup of coffee, I decided to stay home all day. to not go out unless it was to feed the birds or bring in firewood, or to stand for a few moments in the cool air and breathe in the smell of, well, winter air really smells like the absence of, of growing green things, of movement and doing. I guess winter air smells like quiet and stillness and repose.
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