Get Sleepy: Sleep meditation and stories

Thomas More even wrote a poem called Oh the Shamrock that cast Ireland's three-leafed clover in a passionately charming light.

A triple grass shoots up with dewdrops streaming, as softly green as emeralds seen through purest crystal gleaming. Oh the shamrock, the green immortal shamrock, chosen leaf of bard and chief, old Erin's native shamrock.

In 1773, a chef in Naples named Vincenzo Carrado wrote an influential book, The Gallant Chef.

Interestingly, it mentions tomato sauce being used as a condiment for both pasta and pizza.

In case you didn't know, our company Slumber Studios also has a sleep app called Slumber. With well over a thousand episodes, it has every type of sleep-inducing content you could possibly want.

Slumber has other unique features too, like the ability to add and adjust background sounds to create your own perfect mix. So I highly recommend you give Slumber a try.

Every night, Clementine would read stories to Michael. Stories from the blue book entitled The World Above.

The World Above was no ordinary book. It was the kind of book where the illustrations would move like a real person. Or the words would nearly dance off the page in excitement. Or the pages themselves would glow and dim as you turned them.

Michael went in search of The World Above book. It was hiding in a tuft of candy floss.

He appeared on one of them [the book]. It was a moving image of Timothy and Clementine on either side of Pemble's shoulders traveling through different lands.

She remembers a reference by the friendly farmer to a book that tells the history of the house.

She reads about when the house was built during the 16th century. the renovations made over time and the various people who owned the land.

The caption tells of how this cottage was built long before the manor house and it can still be seen just down the beach.

Everything from fantasy to science fiction, to Richard's fascination with old illustrated fairy tales, and mid-century biographies.

Everything from fantasy to science fiction, to Richard's fascination with old illustrated fairy tales, and mid-century biographies.

You pick a book about the history of The Black Forest and sit down in one of the comfortable armchairs by the fire.

You read the book for a while, finding it interesting, before dozing in the armchair.

One of the most iconic stories of the festive period, celebrated in writing, music, and dance, is The Nutcracker, which was originally written by E.T.A. Hoffman.

Especially in the ballet, the details of the story have been reimagined and adapted many times.

She quilted both by hand and using a machine and displayed one of her creations called the Bible quilt.

They included depictions of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the story of Cain and Abel, the baptism, and the Last Supper, among others.

Another of Powers quilts, called the Pictorial Quilt, is preserved by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Both works use applique and piecework techniques, which are considered noteworthy for their bold images and storytelling.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

It's from Shakespeare's sonnet, Venus and Adonis.

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Scorpio has chosen the rider-weight smith deck. As it's the most traditional and her personal favourite.

The rider-weight smith deck was based on the work of the mystic and academic A.E. Waite. He and the illustrator, Pamela Coleman Smith, were members of the Order of the Golden Dawn.

The cards were originally published by the Rider Company.

An image which historian Cindy Ott shared in her book, Pumpkin. A curious history and American icon.

Pumpkin expert Cindy Ott fills in some interesting details about how immigrants and their jack-o'-lanterns transitioned from using the humble root vegetable to preferring the big orange Pumpkin.

And he also included a scarecrow with a carved pumpkin head in the story Feathertop.

Perhaps one of the greatest literary testaments to the modern symbolism of the jack-o'-lantern can be found in Ray Bradbury's classic 1972 novel, The Halloween Tree.

But with all the ghosts and witches and rituals they witness, one image stands out among all the others. And it is that of The Halloween Tree itself, festooned with jack-o'-lanterns.

Poet John Greenleaf Whittier wrote a poem called The Pumpkin in 1850, mentioning their use at Thanksgiving.

The earliest designs of the name deck chair can be traced in print to the late 19th century. It's mentioned in the novels of Edith Nesbitt, author of The Railway Children in the 1880s.

Here are some books written by local authors, including a guide to the neighborhood.

As you purchase the book, you ask the woman if she has any recommendations for breakfast.

Thanks to the book, the piazza is easy to find. Without a map, you might easily have missed it, as it's hidden in a maze of narrow streets, standing here in this peaceful square.

Luckily, your guidebook has an explanation. While it doesn't mention the wall, there's a paragraph about some underground ruins in this exact location.

After reading this, you close the book. Soon, you'll go inside the church and see these things for yourself.