Square Dancing with Ghosts

04/22/25 • 61 min

Hi Sleepy.

Tonight’s episode is a softly crumbling biscuit of memory, longing, and the strangely delicious ache of childhood love. We wander back to Linghed, where horses bite, letters go undelivered, and a small boy (me) tries to explain feelings with plastic pearls and lies about the post office.

I wonder what love really is—whether it’s chemicals, a fog, or simply a horse you pretend to like. I reflect on how strong emotions used to be, when just the name “Therese” could turn the sky pink and plowed fields smelled like destiny.

There are truths in here too: about growing up, being a “guardian angel” in teenage love, drinking wine at actor school, and eventually peeling the fear from love like fruit skin.

It’s fragmentary, shaky, and exactly as it should be. A tale for your journey to sleep.

It is what it is. What happens, happens. And right now, there’s nothing we can do about it. Let’s begin.

Sleep Tight!

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Hi Sleepy.

There are truths in here too: about growing up, being a “guardian angel” in teenage love, drinking wine at actor school, and eventually peeling the fear from love like fruit skin.

It’s fragmentary, shaky, and exactly as it should be. A tale for your journey to sleep.

It is what it is. What happens, happens. And right now, there’s nothing we can do about it. Let’s begin.

Sleep Tight!

More about Henrik, click here: https://linktr.ee/Henrikstahl

Become a supporting member and listen to ad free episodes at: https://plus.acast.com/s/falli-asleep-with-henrik.

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Debris, Please Stay Awhile

Sleepy... what happens, happens. And right now, there’s nothing we can do about it. So let’s go...

In this episode, I do what I do best: I forget what I’m doing halfway through doing it, and continue doing it anyway. I talk to you about disaster. Not the dramatic kind, but the kind you're born into—life as a pile of debris to build something beautiful out of.

We wander from a lion-infested South African cave, through the gray tunnels of adulthood, to a snowy childhood field where stars throw themselves at us.

Bitterness lurks like a sleepy beast, and I talk about quitting alcohol, about not being sure what anything means anymore.

There’s a future coming. It might be bright. It might be dark. It might be both. But we’re here, you and I, alive in the debris. And that’s... kind of a miracle.

Sleep tight!

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