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The Wide Awake Star – Calming Bedtime Story for Sleepy Babies 1 Hour of Soft Sleep Music · Sleep stories baby

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  Speaker 1: High up in the soft twilight sky where the blue
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  Speaker 1: melts into purple and the purple kisses the sea there
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  Speaker 1: was a little star named Lumen Lumen Lumen was not
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  Speaker 1: like the other stars while his brothers and sisters curled
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  Speaker 1: into their fluffy cloud beds and closed their sleepy eyes
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  Speaker 1: Lumen's tiny golden points were stretched wide open I'm not
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  Speaker 1: tired Lumen whispered to himself Not even a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: He peeked over a big white cloud. Below, the ocean
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  Speaker 1: was calm. The moon was gentle. A little house with
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  Speaker 1: a chimney had just turned off its last light. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: is sleeping, Lumen said. But where's the dark? The soft, cozy,
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  Speaker 1: tuck you in dark? I can't find it anywhere. He
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  Speaker 1: wiggled his points and floated upward, away from his sleepy family.
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  Speaker 1: Because if you can't find the dark, you must go
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  Speaker 1: ask someone who knows everything about the night. Lumen drifted
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  Speaker 1: higher until he reached a great silver crescent. The moon.
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  Speaker 2: Moon?
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  Speaker 1: Moon, are you awake? The moon had soft, sleepy eyes
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  Speaker 1: and a gentle smile. She yawned. A slow, silvery yawn
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  Speaker 1: that made the whole sky sigh. Little star, the moon said,
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  Speaker 1: why are you not tucked in like the others? I
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  Speaker 1: can't find the dark, Lumen said. Everyone says bedtime is
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  Speaker 1: for the dark, but every shadow I touch wiggles away.
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  Speaker 1: The moon's smile grew wider and softer. Ah, she said,
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for the wrong kind of dark. Go down,
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  Speaker 1: little one, past the forest of sleepy trees. The night
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  Speaker 1: owl knows where the dark hides. Lumen felt a flutter
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  Speaker 1: of hope. He thanked the moon and drifted downward past
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  Speaker 1: the chimney smoke and the sleeping birds toward a forest
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  Speaker 1: that looked like green pillows piled against the sky. The
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  Speaker 1: forest was the quietest place Lumen had ever seen. The
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  Speaker 1: trees were tall and gentle, their branches drooping like arms
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of a long cozy yawn. Each leaf
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be nodding off. Tiny star friends sat on
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  Speaker 1: the branches, but even they were dim and sleepy. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: Lumen whispered. One tree opened a single knot eye. Shh,
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  Speaker 1: it breathed. We are dreaming of sunshine. I'm sorry, Lumen
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  Speaker 1: whispered back. I'm looking for the dark. The night owl.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know where she is? The tree pointed one
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  Speaker 1: droopy branch deeper into the forest. Follow the moss, it said,
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  Speaker 1: and please, little star, glow softly. The dark is shy.
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  Speaker 1: Lumen dimmed his light until he was barely a warm
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  Speaker 1: amber flicker, and for the first time, he noticed something wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: The deeper he went into the forest, the softer everything felt.
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  Speaker 1: The air became a blanket. The shadows became pillows. He
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  Speaker 1: was getting closer. In a hollow of the oldest tree
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  Speaker 1: sat a plump, fluffy owl with half-closed eyes and tiny,
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  Speaker 1: round spectacles perched on her beak. She was reading a
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  Speaker 1: book made of leaves. In every few seconds, her head drooped,
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  Speaker 1: then snapped back up.' Excuse me,' Lumen said.' Are you
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  Speaker 1: the night owl?' The owl blinked slowly.' Twice!' I am,
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  Speaker 1: she said in a voice like velvet, and you, little glow,
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  Speaker 1: should be in bed. I can't find the dark, Lumen said.
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  Speaker 1: The moon said you would know. The night owl closed
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  Speaker 1: her book. She tilted her head. Child, she said kindly,
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  Speaker 1: you have been looking for dark that is empty. That
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  Speaker 1: is not the bedtime dark. The bedtime dark is full.
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  Speaker 1: Full of what? Lumen asked. The owl pointed one wing.
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  Speaker 1: Full of lullabies, she said, full of rest, full of
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  Speaker 1: the quiet that lets little stars dream. Go to the
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  Speaker 1: hill of lullabies, lie down and listen. Lumen's points tingled
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  Speaker 1: with excitement. He thanked the owl and floated toward the
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  Speaker 1: hill where the flowers were already nodding their heads in
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  Speaker 1: time to a song he could almost hear. The hill
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  Speaker 1: of lullabies was the most beautiful place Lumen had ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: The flowers glowed, not bright like him, but soft, like
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  Speaker 1: moonlight on milk. Each flower drooped gently, and as they swayed,
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  Speaker 1: they hummed. It was not a song with words. It
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  Speaker 1: was a song with feelings, warmth, safety, slowness. Lumen landed
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  Speaker 1: softly on a patch of moss. The flowers leaned toward him.
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  Speaker 1: You are tired, one flower whispered. I am? Lumen asked.
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  Speaker 1: You have been shining all day, another flower hummed. Even
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  Speaker 1: stars need to rest their light. For the first time,
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  Speaker 1: Lumen realized something. His glow had been so bright because
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  Speaker 1: he was trying so hard. But right now, surrounded by
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  Speaker 1: the hum of the lullaby flowers, he felt his light
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  Speaker 1: softening all on its own. His points felt heavy, in
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  Speaker 1: a good way. Is this the dark? he asked softly. Almost,
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  Speaker 1: the flowers murmured. A little further, just over the hill.
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  Speaker 3: Lumen floated over the top of the hill and softly gasped.
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  Speaker 3: Below him, the sky was not empty. It was full,
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  Speaker 3: full of the most beautiful, velvety, soft darkness he had
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  Speaker 3: ever seen. It was shaped like a thousand little blankets,
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  Speaker 3: each one waiting for a tired star. And tucked into
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  Speaker 3: those blankets were his brothers and sisters, not lost, not scared,
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  Speaker 3: just resting. Their lights glowed softly through the dark, making
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  Speaker 3: the darkness shimmer like a nightgown. This is the dark,
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  Speaker 3: Lumen whispered. A gentle voice behind him said, yes, it
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  Speaker 3: was never something to find. It was something to let in.
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  Speaker 3: Lumen turned. The moon was smiling down from far above.
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  Speaker 2: May I?
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  Speaker 3: Lumen asked.
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  Speaker 4: The moon nodded.
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  Speaker 3: Lumen floated down to a patch of dark blanket that
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  Speaker 3: was just his size.
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  Speaker 1: It was warm. It was soft.
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  Speaker 3: It smelled like honey and silence. He tucked his points
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  Speaker 3: in one by one. For the first time ever, His
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  Speaker 3: light didn't fight the dark. It rested inside it. And oh,
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  Speaker 3: it felt wonderful. And so, the little star closed his eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Around him, all the stars slept, tucked into their dark blankets.
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  Speaker 3: The crescent moon watched over them like the kindest mother.
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  Speaker 3: The forest trees dreamed. The owl snored softly in her hollow.
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  Speaker 3: The lullaby flowers hummed their last quiet note. In a
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  Speaker 3: little house far below, a child turned off the last
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  Speaker 3: light and pulled up their own blanket. And if you
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  Speaker 3: look very closely at the night sky, just before you
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  Speaker 3: close your own eyes, you can still see Lumen. He
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  Speaker 3: is the star that glows a little softer than the others.
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  Speaker 3: The one who learned that the dark is not empty.
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  Speaker 3: The dark is where the light goes to dream. So,
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  Speaker 3: good night, little one. Good night to your hands.
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  Speaker 1: Good night to your feet.
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  Speaker 3: And good night to the star who will watch over
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  Speaker 3: you until morning.
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