Our story tonight is called Color Walk, and it’s a story about a soft way to move through the world on a spring day. It’s also about a box of crayons in the desk drawer, a thin jacket, a cool breeze, storefronts and shop windows, and elevating the every day with calm attention. We give to a different charity each week and this week we are giving to White Rock Bear Sanctuary, whose simple but noble purpose is to rescue and rehabilitate bears. AquaTru water purifier: Click here and get 20% OFF with code NOTHINGMUCH. Beam Dream Powder: Click here for up to 40% off with code NOTHINGMUCH. BIOptimizers’ Sleep Breakthrough: Click here and use code NOTHINGMUCH for 10% off any order! Cymbiotika products: Click here for 20% off and free shipping! Moonbird, the world’s first handheld breathing coach: Click here and save 20%! NMH merch, autographed books and more! Pay it forward subscription Subscribe for ad-free, bonus and extra long episodes now, as well as ad-free and early episodes of Stories from the Village of Nothing Much! Search for NMH Premium channel on Apple podcast or follow this link. Listen to our daytime show Stories from the Village of Nothing Much on your favorite podcast app. Join us tomorrow morning for a meditation
Chapter 1: Why is sleep important and how can we improve it?
I care about your sleep. It is always my first thought and priority in making this show. And sometimes you need extra help. Sometimes, even when your sleep hygiene is top tier, sleep doesn't come. Some nights, you might struggle to fall asleep. or wake after a few hours and toss and turn. I get it.
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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'll hear on Nothing Much Happens. With audio engineering by Bob Wittersheim.
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and I'll go a little slower the second time through. If you wake later in the night, turn an episode right back on. You'll be back to sleep before you know it. Our story tonight is called Color Walk, and it's a story about a soft way to move through the world on a spring day.
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Chapter 2: How can Bioptimizers Sleep Breakthrough help?
So minute to minute, you might be dazzled by sunlight or shrouded in shade. And with each shift, you'd likely be pushing back the sleeves of your jacket, or tugging them back down.
Still, just now, the sun shone on my face, and the air smelled of fresh grass and last night's rain. was just about to start off when I looked down and spotted a penny on the sidewalk. I smiled. We were off to a good start already. I squatted down to pick it up and turned it over in my palm. The ruddy copper color was tarnished and dark and was my first color spotting.
As I stood, I saw that it was minted the year I was born. I tucked it into my pocket beside the crayon and began to walk.
Now, with lots of practices like this, designed to help us be a bit more present, there's a chance to take it so far that you drive yourself crazy, that you try too hard and somehow feel you've failed, even though you actually can't. I reminded myself that my job wasn't to find absolutely everything that was dark brown or a deep clay red. I didn't really have a job at all.
I was just walking and letting things be gently highlighted by my attention. I noticed last year's leaves caught around the post of a fence.
The old maples faded to paler versions of themselves. A child on a bike whizzed past me when I saw their sweater was the same mahogany as my crayon.
A neighbor was spreading mulch in their garden beds when each handful was a rich, reddish brown. In a backyard, an old potting shed was shingled in sun-baked, stained wood slats. And on porch steps, terracotta pots held blooming daffodils and Johnny jump-ups. The rust on an old mailbox caught my eye, and the ruddy chest of a robin flying past.
As I turned down Main Street and made my way into downtown, I spotted two people chatting outside the bakery, each with a dog on a leash. One was a puppy, much less than a year old.
Her fur, a deep russet red. And the other dog was full grown, but half her size. his fur many shades of brown, sticking out all over, like he'd been hit with a dose of static electricity. As they chased around each other, play-bowing and jumping, their fur blended together and made exactly the shade of red-brown I was looking for today.
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