In Pie Making, join us for a warm evening at the bakery with hot cocoa, pastry cutters, and crimped crusts. This story celebrates the stages of learning and the joy of creating something beautiful with your hands.
Welcome to Bedtime Stories for Everyone in which Nothing Much Happens.
You feel good, and then you fall asleep.
I'm Catherine Nikolai.
I create everything you hear on Nothing Much Happens.
Audio engineering is by Bob Wittersheim.
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This is why you fall asleep when you're trying to read.
Just by listening, you'll keep your mind in one place and falling and returning to sleep will become more automatic.
I'll read the story twice, and I'll go a little slower the second time through.
If you wake later in the night and feel your mind starting to rev back up, turn on an episode, you'll be out again in a flash.
Our story tonight is called Pie Making, and it's a story about an evening at the bakery with ready workstations and clean aprons.
It's also about an urn of hot cocoa on the counter, pastry cutters and crimped crusts, and the stages of learning that eventually allow us to play okay, lights out, devices down, it's time to commit yourself to deep rest.