Nothing much happens: bedtime stories to help you sleep
Restoration & The Lady in the Painting
03 Mar 2025
Our stories tonight are called Restoration, and The Lady in the Painting, and they are stories about an inherited treasure, and the tale it has to tell. It’s also about the precious gift of a common moment preserved in paint, the feeling of knowing someone you’ve never met, a clue on a scrap of paper, and the feeling of being so connected to what you’re doing that time passes without notice. Subscribe to our Premium channel. The first month is on us. 💙 We give to a different charity each week, and this week, we are giving to GLAD GLBTQ Advocates & Defenders, which works to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression. Visit bioptimizers.com/nothingmuch and use code NOTHINGMUCH for 10% off any order. For 20% OFF any AquaTru water purifier when you go to AquaTru.com and use promo code NOTHINGMUCH Order your own NMH weighted pillow now! Listen to our daytime show Stories from the Village of Nothing Much on your favorite podcast app. Join us tomorrow morning for a meditation. Save over $100 on Kathryn’s hand-selected wind-down favorites with the Nothing Much Happens Wind-Down Box—a collection of products from our amazing partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Full Episode
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'll hear on Nothing Much Happens. Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim.
We give to a different charity each week, and this week we are giving to GLAD, GLBTQ, Advocates and Defenders, working to create a just society, free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression. You can learn more about them in our show notes.
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Now Bob and I are taking this week off, so we're bringing you a special episode. It's a two-parter that has never appeared in front of the paywall. We've put it all together into one so that you get an extra long bedtime story tonight.
Enjoy. Now you know how this works. I've prepared a place for you to tuck into and rest.
All you need to do is let your attention rest on the shape of the story and the sound of my voice.
Of course, I'll read the story twice, going a little slower the second time through.
Just shifting your attention from the background static of your thoughts to the gentle structure of my tale will transfer brain activity into the task positive mode.
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