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🛖 Come in, drifters. Some nights the trouble is tomorrow, and the people in it: the boss who shouts, the colleague who pushes back on everything, the argument you are already losing in your head. This sleep story follows Helvidius Priscus, the Roman senator who answered an emperor's death threat with a shrug, told from the water's edge at Irishtown Nature Park in New Brunswick.

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Tonight, we follow a bounded stretch of the life of Helvidius Priscus and his wife Fannia, from the morning he led the rebuilding of the burnt temple on the Capitol, through his clash with the informer who had ruined his father-in-law, and the plain name he kept calling the new emperor Vespasian, to the day a messenger told him to stay away from the Senate and he went in anyway. It is a slow bedtime story about two men doing jobs that could not both be done, and about a woman who, twenty years later, answered a feared informer with two words and spent her last strength nursing a sick Vestal. If you are lying awake bracing against someone, it asks a quiet Stoic question: which part of tomorrow's conversation was ever yours to carry? Wherever sleep meets you along the way, let it.

🦆 Recorded sitting on the bank at the edge of the water in Irishtown Nature Park, near Moncton, New Brunswick, with ducks calling back and forth and small birds in the trees behind. Every sound beneath the narration comes from that real recording.

📜 Sources: Epictetus, Discourses, translated by W. A. Oldfather (1925); Tacitus, The Histories, translated by A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb (1876); Tacitus, Agricola, translated by A. J. Church and W. J. Brodribb (1877); Suetonius, Life of Vespasian, translated by J. C. Rolfe (1914); Cassius Dio, Roman History, translated by E. Cary (1925); Pliny the Younger, Letters, translated by W. Melmoth, revised by W. M. L. Hutchinson (1915).

🤍 Created and produced by Luc Richard. Field recording, video, and photography
captured on location by Luc Richard. Narration is AI-generated with ElevenLabs.
The place and every ambient sound are real.

💬 If tonight helped, tell me the one thing you are setting down on the other person's side of the ledger tonight. And follow, so there's always a quiet hour waiting when you need one.

Sleep well. Their part is theirs, and yours fits in one hand. 🌲