Fifteen gentle stories for the end of the day, told in a soft Scottish voice: a little station where the leaves come to rest, a fox and a cat under an old oak at dawn, a patient fisherman and a sealed jar, the long way home at golden hour, a kitchen that waits for morning, and at last the steady hum of a fan in a summer window. Each story is a little slower, and a little softer, than the one before. By the final tale you're no longer following a narrative, just resting while the light goes.
The stories
- 1:12 The Little Station Where the Leaves Came to Rest 11 min
- 13:29 The Visitor Under the Porch 11 min
- 25:37 The Sealed Jar and the Patient Fisherman 12 min
- 38:50 The Cat, the Fox, and the Old Oak at Dawn 13 min
- 52:37 The Doe, the Fawn, and the Quiet Meadow 11 min
- 1:05:02 The Garden That Kept No Clocks 12 min
- 1:18:00 The Long Way Home at Golden Hour 11 min
- 1:30:29 The Quiet Room and the Unexpected Guest 12 min
- 1:43:22 The Goat in the Parlour 13 min
- 1:57:20 The Pond That Learned to Sing at Dusk 11 min
- 2:09:36 The Cautious Bean and the Willing Coal 10 min
- 2:20:59 The Lake That Was Still Awake 11 min
- 2:33:27 The Long Rectangle of Light 11 min
- 2:45:36 The Kitchen That Waited 11 min
- 2:58:08 The Fan in the Summer Window 15 min
Retold from
- Aesop's Fables, translated by George Fyler Townsend
- Grimms' Fairy Tales, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- The Metamorphoses, by Ovid, translated by Henry T. Riley
- The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit
- The Thousand and One Nights, translated by Edward William Lane