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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Koala Moon, a podcast of original
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Speaker 1: children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime a dream.
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Speaker 1: in front of the fire right now, and sunny. She's
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Speaker 1: all curled up tight and warm on a cushion in
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Speaker 1: her bed, because there's no doubt that it really is
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Speaker 1: winter time here in the UK. Now outdoors it feels
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Speaker 1: quiet and very still has all the life in the
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Speaker 1: garden and fields around us so have either slowed right
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Speaker 1: down or gone dormant. Winter. It's the perfect time to
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Speaker 1: slow down. We can all replenish our energy ready for
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Speaker 1: the brighter, longer days of spring and summer. So let's
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Speaker 1: just all enjoy the rest. Lie back in bed and
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Speaker 1: take some steady breaths in and out with her eyes
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Speaker 1: open or closed. Just think about being still and letting
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Speaker 1: all the busyness in your body from your day ebb
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Speaker 1: away into the bed below you, or float into the
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Speaker 1: covers above you. Breathe in and out, in and out lovely.
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Speaker 1: In tonight's story, we're going to meet a cuddly bear
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Speaker 1: named Winter. That's Winter with a y who is growing
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Speaker 1: up and preparing for his first solo hibernation. Imagine your
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Speaker 1: bed as your den, and little Winter is in his
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Speaker 1: den deep in the forest. Let's hunker down in our
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Speaker 1: own dens and continue to relax as I begin Winter
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Speaker 1: The Hibernating Bear by Jane Thomas. Winter the grizzly bear,
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Speaker 1: had come into the world one cold January night, more
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Speaker 1: than two years before this story is set. He and
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Speaker 1: his brother and sister appeared into the warmth of their
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Speaker 1: mother's buried deep in a snow drift on the northern
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Speaker 1: slopes of Eagle Peak in Yellowstone. Their mother had curled
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Speaker 1: her soft body and legs around the three tiny bears,
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Speaker 1: protecting her young for month after month, until the outside
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Speaker 1: world had wakened enough and the leaves were unfurling on
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Speaker 1: the trees. Winter would never forget the first time he
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Speaker 1: left the den. High up on the mountainside, they emerged
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Speaker 1: to a land still covered in white, looking down towards
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Speaker 1: green valleys that were dressed with flowing fields of wildflowers.
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Speaker 1: Flashes of color poured and spilled into the scene. The
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Speaker 1: three cubs had stayed close to their mother, learning to
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Speaker 1: climb a tree as fast as a flash, learning to
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Speaker 1: grab a fish with a dap and a dash. For
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Speaker 1: eight months, they'd followed close behind her, watching and copying
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Speaker 1: her every move. In the moments where she rested, the
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Speaker 1: trio batted away butterflies with paws that seemed to grow
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Speaker 1: with each passing day. They rolled down hills, head tucked
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Speaker 1: in and arms wrapped around their body so perfect little
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Speaker 1: balls of brown fur raced down the slopes. In the
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Speaker 1: warmest months of the summer, they wrestled in the shallows
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Speaker 1: of the river, watching as the waters that had raged
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Speaker 1: when they first emerged slowly stalled to a sedentary stream
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Speaker 1: as the last of the snow melted and headed towards
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Speaker 1: other rivers and other lakes and distant seas, And as
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Speaker 1: their first autumn appeared winter and his brother and sister
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Speaker 1: learned the berries that were good to eat, found the
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Speaker 1: nuts and grasses that were the most sweet and succulent,
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Speaker 1: and dug deep into the ground to find the richest roots.
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Speaker 1: They and their mother ate and ate to keep them
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Speaker 1: full and safe for their long winter's sleep. High on
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Speaker 1: the slopes of Eagle Peak, buried beneath the snow, Winter
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Speaker 1: had passed his first whole hibernation with his siblings and
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Speaker 1: his mother, and then spent spring and summer refining his
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Speaker 1: hunting skills and tree climbing and bury finding. Then together
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Speaker 1: they had headed for the safety of a den for
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Speaker 1: their second winter together this year. When they emerged, blinking
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Speaker 1: against the brightness of the sunshine, stretching and easing the
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Speaker 1: sleep from their bones, after having been curled up together
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Speaker 1: for so many months, their mother had wished them well
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Speaker 1: and sent them on their way, nudging them towards different
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Speaker 1: cores of Yellowstone National Park. It was time for them
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Speaker 1: to be by themselves at last, to use all the
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Speaker 1: lessons they had learned, and to live the lives of
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Speaker 1: free bears wondering in one of the world's great wildernesses. Sometimes,
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Speaker 1: when he was down by his favorite fishing spot, where
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Speaker 1: the salmon leaped and the fireweed rustled softly in the breeze,
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Speaker 1: Winter would see his brother further downstream. They would smile
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Speaker 1: at each other and wave, noses, twitching to read the
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Speaker 1: messages sent through the air, but generally each kept themselves
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Speaker 1: to themselves. It was a solitary life, but not a
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Speaker 1: lonely one, for grizzly bears are born to live alone,
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Speaker 1: and loved the freedom they are given by being able
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Speaker 1: to spend day after day, week after week, and month
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Speaker 1: after month just by themselves. Winter usually stayed in the
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Speaker 1: same broad area, allowing himself to venture as far south
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Speaker 1: as the fallen rocks, as far east as the river,
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Speaker 1: as far west as the water the color of sapphires
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Speaker 1: that steamed gently all day and all night, and as
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Speaker 1: far north as the meadows where the bison grazed. One morning,
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Speaker 1: he had allowed himself to go further, sniffing the air
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Speaker 1: cautiously and following new smells and scents, until he came
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Speaker 1: upon a clearing and saw, for the first time in
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Speaker 1: his life a strange new animal that was bright blue
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Speaker 1: and shiny and roared in a way he'd never heard
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Speaker 1: an animal roar before. And then more creatures had emerged
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Speaker 1: from the blue animal and set a blanket on the ground,
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Speaker 1: and they had all sat down and taken out boxes
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Speaker 1: filled with foods that had sense, such as Winter had
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Speaker 1: never known. Winter sat and watched from the safety of
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Speaker 1: the shadows of the trees, returning to the sight again
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Speaker 1: and again, and always seeing the same scene, except sometimes
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Speaker 1: the giant animal, which made strange noises, was red like
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Speaker 1: the setting sun, or silver like the fish that leapt,
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Speaker 1: or black like the sky at night. And sometimes the
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Speaker 1: smaller creatures that emerged were very quiet, then sat peacefully
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Speaker 1: looking out at the world from behind strange black boxes
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Speaker 1: that clicked and flashed, And sometimes there were loads of
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Speaker 1: the smaller creatures, and they ran around making noises and
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Speaker 1: shouted and screamed and laughed. The longer he watched, the
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Speaker 1: more Winter learned. Soon he found out that the little
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Speaker 1: creatures were called people. Sometimes, when the people weren't looking,
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Speaker 1: Winter would emerge from his hiding place, lumbering over to
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Speaker 1: their picnic blankets as softly and gently as he could
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Speaker 1: sniffing and peering at the food within. There were tastes
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Speaker 1: he'd never known, with the tang of salt and vinegar
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Speaker 1: dancing on his tongue, and the strange texture of cheese
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Speaker 1: and soft bread getting stuck for a while in his teeth.
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Speaker 1: Winter didn't head to the clearing every day, but on
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Speaker 1: the days he did go, he learned which foods were
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Speaker 1: good and which were not. He loved the fruits that
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Speaker 1: appeared on the picnic blankets, fruits that didn't grow anywhere
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Speaker 1: in Yellowstone. Sometimes the creatures left things behind, carelessly discarded
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Speaker 1: packets that rustled as he picked them up, and bottles
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Speaker 1: filled with strange colored liquids that tasted as sweet as
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Speaker 1: a hundred raspberries in a single sip. Winter ate them all,
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Speaker 1: for his mother had given him the very important job
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Speaker 1: of eating as much as possible in preparation for the
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Speaker 1: long months of winter, when he would need to dig
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Speaker 1: a den and hide himself away from the world. There
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Speaker 1: were days when Winter let himself be idle for a
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Speaker 1: few hours, when he lay on his back in the
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Speaker 1: soft grasses of the meadow and watched the eagle saw
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Speaker 1: high above. He wished that he could fly drifting around
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Speaker 1: on the thermals, swooping high and low, skimming across the
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Speaker 1: surface of a river, and sometimes he was sure the
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Speaker 1: birds were showing off, teasing him with their skills. On
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Speaker 1: one of the first days by himself, Winter had climbed
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Speaker 1: a tree, reaching up branch by branch and going as
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Speaker 1: high as he dared before launching himself into the sky
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Speaker 1: the way the eagles did. His fall to the ground
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Speaker 1: was slowed by those same branches, and he ouched and
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Speaker 1: bothered his way to the grass far below. Winter had
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Speaker 1: looked up and down and left and right, checking that
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Speaker 1: nobody else had seen his foolishness, and tucking away his
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Speaker 1: new knowledge for future use. Bears did not fly. He
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Speaker 1: now knew his mother had been right, and she had
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Speaker 1: taught him everything he needed to know to survive in
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Speaker 1: the world. From now on, he would remember the lessons
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Speaker 1: and not try to be something he was not. Bears
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Speaker 1: and eagles, Winter thought to himself as he lay on
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Speaker 1: his back and watched them wheel and swoop were very
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Speaker 1: different beasts, as indeed, he supposed, were bears and bison.
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Speaker 1: The bison always traveled in huge groups, and one afternoon
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Speaker 1: he tried to count the animals as they grazed in
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Speaker 1: the field below. By the time he reached three thousand,
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Speaker 1: he was feeling quite cross eyed and confused and gave up,
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Speaker 1: realizing that these animals that wanted to be around thousands
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Speaker 1: of others were very different to bears. One afternoon in
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Speaker 1: late summer, as he played on the shingle beaches and
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Speaker 1: dashed in and out of the waters, catching the silver
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Speaker 1: salmon that leapt and wriggled and surged, he thought he
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Speaker 1: saw his mother high on a mountainside, looking down at
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Speaker 1: him and smiling. He wasn't sure, but just in case,
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Speaker 1: he took extra care to charge and dive and catch
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Speaker 1: as well as he ever had, reassuring her that he
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Speaker 1: was doing well in the world and he had learned
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Speaker 1: from all the lessons she had shared. And one evening
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Speaker 1: in the late autumn, he had seen his sister heading
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Speaker 1: towards the same patch of berries as himself, holding back
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Speaker 1: to let her go ahead and eat them instead of him.
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Speaker 1: For a moment, he wondered about going forwards and tapping
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Speaker 1: her on the shoulder and wrestling and playing with her
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Speaker 1: as they had in those early years, But his sister
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Speaker 1: gave off such an air of contentment, her soft breaths
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Speaker 1: showing white in the air as the coolness of the
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Speaker 1: evening took hold. That he held back and let her
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Speaker 1: be safe and happy to be alone in the world.
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Speaker 1: There was one thing Winter's mother hadn't told him, but
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Speaker 1: that he had decided all for himself. He knew that
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Speaker 1: he needed to eat and eat in order to survive
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Speaker 1: the five months he would lie buried in his den
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Speaker 1: beneath the snow, and she had given him all the
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Speaker 1: skills he would ever need to be able to do
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Speaker 1: that ten times over. As late autumn reached towards early winter,
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Speaker 1: as the days grew shorter and the nights closed in,
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Speaker 1: he was more aware than ever that he wanted to
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Speaker 1: fill his mind with all things beautiful and wonderful, so
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Speaker 1: that he would dream the best and most glorious dreams
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Speaker 1: as he slept for month after month, And so every
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Speaker 1: moment of Winter's days were filled with finding something more
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Speaker 1: extraordinary than he'd seen on the last. He watched the
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Speaker 1: leaves on trees as they turned from green into brown
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Speaker 1: and red and yellow, seeing how their edges dried and curled,
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Speaker 1: and finally, when the winds laced with ice whipped through
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Speaker 1: the valleys. They drifted softly and gently to the ground.
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Speaker 1: He felt them under his great paws, the crunching of
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Speaker 1: the dry ones and soft slipperiness of the wet ones,
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Speaker 1: And sometimes he lay in piles of them and kicked
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Speaker 1: his feet so they danced in the air once more,
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Speaker 1: before falling down on his nose. He watched as the
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Speaker 1: other animals prepared for winter, TiO, seeing how the squirrels
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Speaker 1: piled up nuts and buried them one by one into
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Speaker 1: the ground, gently patting them into place and looking around
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Speaker 1: to find ways of remembering their secret store. And one
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Speaker 1: by one, the birds started to fly south, sometimes in
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Speaker 1: small groups and sometimes with thousands, flying together, their wings
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Speaker 1: beating in unison as they soared towards warmer weather and
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Speaker 1: sunnier skies. In those last weeks before he headed up
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Speaker 1: Eagle Peak to make his den winter, sniffed the air
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Speaker 1: and knew that the first snows were coming. He loved
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Speaker 1: the snow. He loved the feel of it falling onto
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Speaker 1: his face and fur, and he loved the way it
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Speaker 1: crunched under his feet. He loved rolling into giant drifts
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Speaker 1: and sliding down the slopes, looking back at the trails
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Speaker 1: he left behind. Sometimes, when it was snowing hard, he
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Speaker 1: could walk for ten paces and look back to find
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Speaker 1: his tracks already covered by falling snow, and he felt
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Speaker 1: as if he was magically invisible to the rest of
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Speaker 1: the world. When it was like this, he dared himself
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Speaker 1: to dance, lifting his giant feet and humming sounds to
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Speaker 1: himself that sounded like the river, and the wind in
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Speaker 1: the trees, and the screeches of eagles high above. No
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Speaker 1: other living beast would ever know that Winter danced in
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Speaker 1: the snow, for he always took care to do this
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Speaker 1: only when the snow fell thick and fast, and his
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Speaker 1: footsteps were filled in forever as quickly as he made them.
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Speaker 1: The giant, blue and red and black creatures Winter now
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Speaker 1: knew to be cars stopped coming when the snows came.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the smaller creatures appeared, balancing on slender skis and
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Speaker 1: racing fast across the countryside, weaving between the trees and
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Speaker 1: shrieking with delight. They didn't come anymore with their rustling
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Speaker 1: packets of strange tasting food and fruits from lands far away,
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Speaker 1: but they made him laugh in the way they charged
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Speaker 1: across the snow covered landscape, stopping sometimes to scoop up
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Speaker 1: handfuls of the soft white powder and throw it at
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Speaker 1: each other. He saw them pile the snow together, once,
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Speaker 1: forming it into the shape of a giant bear. That night,
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Speaker 1: after the small creatures had gone, he went to the
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Speaker 1: bear and patted the snow into place, putting a smile
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Speaker 1: on the snow bear's face. The same small creatures returned
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Speaker 1: the next day and saw what had been done. And
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Speaker 1: he saw them laughing and scratching their heads and looking
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Speaker 1: around for who could possibly have done this, And safe
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Speaker 1: behind a snowdrift, went to laugh to himself to watch
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Speaker 1: their confusion and delight. It was when the sun began
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Speaker 1: to sink so low in the sky that the days
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Speaker 1: barely had light left in them that Winter knew it
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Speaker 1: was time to begin his annual trip to the highest
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Speaker 1: reaches of Eagle Peak. His mother had always told him
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Speaker 1: to create his den on the north facing slopes of
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Speaker 1: the mountain. It was the coldest part where the winds
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Speaker 1: blew the snow into the highest mounds, piling up the
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Speaker 1: warmth above him as he slept through the long winter months.
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Speaker 1: By now, Winter was so large that it was almost
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Speaker 1: difficult to drag himself up the mountainside. Each step felt
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Speaker 1: heavier and heavier, and the snow became deeper and deeper.
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Speaker 1: He looked up and chose a tree to aim for
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Speaker 1: the highest, strongest, toughest tree he could find that would
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Speaker 1: be the perfect placement for his first solo den. For
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Speaker 1: hour after hour he trudged through the snow, his eyes
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Speaker 1: almost completely closed against the winds that whipped and swirled
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Speaker 1: around him. Winter thought of the den he would build,
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Speaker 1: and the sleep he would have, and the dreams that
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Speaker 1: would fill his mind for month after month. And when
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Speaker 1: he reached the giant tree, he set about digging deep
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Speaker 1: into the ground, pulling up rocks and plants and stones
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Speaker 1: and soft earth. He dug far into the mass of
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Speaker 1: roots to create something of a cave, And when he
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Speaker 1: was finished, he turned to take one last look at
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Speaker 1: the world before he retreated. Stretching as far as he
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Speaker 1: could see was a blanket of white. Far beneath him,
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Speaker 1: far far away, he saw and heard of three thousand
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Speaker 1: bison marching slowly and steadily across the land, a golden
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Speaker 1: eagle sword above its feathers, a dark blur against the
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Speaker 1: falling snow, Winter whispered a soft goodbye to everything he
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Speaker 1: knew and loved, and headed into the softness of his den,
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Speaker 1: turning himself this way and that on the earth floor
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Speaker 1: till he found just the way to curl himself to
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Speaker 1: be as warm and cozy as possible. He kept one
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Speaker 1: eye on the entrance for a while, watching as the
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Speaker 1: snow piled up and up, until he was quite sealed
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Speaker 1: off from the world. He lay wrapped in cozy silence
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Speaker 1: and sleepy darkness. As the snow grew deeper and deeper
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Speaker 1: above him, The cries of the eagle and the whistle
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Speaker 1: of the wind were lost. Winter smiled to himself as
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Speaker 1: he looked back on his first spring, his first summer,
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Speaker 1: his first autumn that he had spent roaming the wilderness.
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Speaker 1: He thought of the way the river had churned and
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Speaker 1: roared during those early months, filled with the icy water
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Speaker 1: of melting snow, and how the brightest, freshest, greenest leaves
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Speaker 1: had dared to unfurl as the sun rose warmer and
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Speaker 1: higher in the sky. He thought of the fish he'd caught,
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Speaker 1: and the warm roots he had pulled from the ground,
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Speaker 1: and the berries that had appeared brighter and plumper as
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Speaker 1: the year went on. He thought of the strange tangs
00:24:36
Speaker 1: of the food he had tried that the little people brought.
00:24:41
Speaker 1: He thought of all the animals readying themselves in their
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Speaker 1: own way for the winter, some heading south and others
00:24:51
Speaker 1: piling up stores of food, and the other animals, the
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Speaker 1: chipmunks and the mice and the frogs that he had
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Speaker 1: seen in heading off to hibernate just like him. He
00:25:05
Speaker 1: thought of his mother, and his brother and his sister,
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Speaker 1: probably not so very far away, curled up safe and
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Speaker 1: warm in their own dens, far beneath the snow and winter.
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Speaker 1: Knew he was ready for a long and wonderful sleep,
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Speaker 1: dreaming a thousand dreams of everything he had seen and done.
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Speaker 1: The spring would be beautifully again, the summer would be
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Speaker 1: filled with magic. But now it was time to sleep
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Speaker 1: and rest, to drift away and hide from the world
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Speaker 1: for a while. He breathed soft and low, just the
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Speaker 1: way his mother had taught him, gently in and gently out,
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Speaker 1: gently in and gently out. His body relaxed and was
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Speaker 1: warm and safe and flowing with gentle dreams.