🎧 2025 Week 21 Audio Journal

No practice has inspired me to try more things, be more attentive, and practice listening more than keeping notes on my day.

Welcome to my audio journal—a daily space where I reflect on what I’ve been hearing and learning through podcasts, audiobooks, and music. I pay attention to the ideas, emotions, and voices that stick with me, capturing them in the moment before they fade. This is more than a habit—it’s how I move through the world as an audionaut.

Being an audionaut means treating listening as an active, meaningful practice. Journaling helps me slow down, track what’s shaping me, and stay curious. These aren’t reviews—they’re reflections, insights, and sometimes just little echoes I don’t want to lose.

If this kind of intentional listening speaks to you, you’ll probably enjoy my podcast, Two Steps with Stephen Henning, where I think out loud about the stuff that matters. And maybe this will invite you to become an audionaut too—to really listen to the sounds that move you, and respond with something honest.

Monday - May 26, 2025

Podcasts

• BirdNote - Witnessing Lifers While Honoring a Life Loss

• Birdnotes - The Magic of Birdsong

• Before Breakfast - Know what you do best

• NPRs UpFirst - 26 May 2025

• Strangers On A Bench - Pain Softens Your Heart

• Hello from the Magic Tavern - S5E57 Poultice Maker (w/ Chris Grace)

• My Brother, My Brother & Me - Sneak a Pi in that Mobo

Music

• JAMS playlist

Audiobooks

• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang - Chapter 17-24

• The Second Immortal Story by Alan Watts

• Winter Count by Barry Lopez

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

• The Heartbeat of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

• Letters to A Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Misc

• Summer lofi on youtube

Tuesday - May 27, 2025

Podcasts

• BirdNote - Lessons From Mixed Flocks

• Before Breakfast - Focus your leisure time

• NPRs UpFirst - 27 May 2025

• 6 Figure Creative - Your Portfolio Looks Like a Cheesecake Factory Menu and It's Embarrassing

• Wild For Scotland - Frozen in Time-Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere

• Are We There Yet? - Varda's hat trick and Earth's twin Venus

Music

• JAMS playlist

Audiobooks

• The Return Of The King Book 6 by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis

  • Chapter 7: Homeward Bound

  • Chapter 8: The Scouring of the Shire

  • Chapter 9: The Grey Havens

• The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Noticed

• Yellow warblers on Korra walk

Wednesday - May 28, 2025

Podcasts

• Hey Riddle Riddle - Erin's Big Big Hat

• BirdNote - The Robin Rescue

• NPRs UpFirst - 28 May 2025

• Worlds Beyond Number - WWW49: The New World

• MTPR - Gov. Gianforte vetoes government transparency bills

• MTPR - Native American lawmakers turn political capital into policy gains

• You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes - Matt Berninger #4

• Wonderful! - Brand! Brand! Brand! Brand!

• Midst - UNEND Season 2 Trailer

Music

• JAMS playlist

Audiobooks

• The Return Of The King Appendix A by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis

  • Annals of the Kings and Rulers, Part 1

    • The Numenorean Kings

    • Gondor, and the Heirs of Anarion

    • The Stewards

  • Annals of the Kings and Rulers, Part 2: The House of Eorl

  • Annals of the Kings and Rulers, Part 3: Durin's Folk

• The Return Of The King Appendix B by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis - The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands)

• Skinbags and Spacesuits. Notes on the unbearableness of it all. by Rob Bell - Part 4

Thursday - May 29, 2025

Podcasts

• BirdNote - In Defense of Big Black Birds

• Before Breakfast - Split your shifts

• NPRs UpFirst - 29 May 2025

• Heavyweight - A Sobering Thought

• Learning How To See - Seeing (and Dancing) in the Dark with Rev. Otis Moss

• Jordan Jesse Go! - Stankus The Rat, with Mike Drucker

• MTPR - Health officials report two more cases of measles in Montana

• MTPR - State grant dollars set to boost Native-owned businesses

• On Being - Krista Tippett-Hope Portal, Ep 1

• Hey Riddle Riddle - Erin's Big Big Hat

• Hey Riddle Riddle - Out of Context Clips Bracket

• UncleRobCast 291 Pretending to Have Imposter Syndrome

Music

• About 41 Bears - The Good Dissent album

• JAMS playlist

Audiobooks

• The Hobbit, or There And Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien, narrated by Andy Serkis - Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party

Friday - May 30, 2025

Podcasts

• MTPR - Fewer Canadians visited northwest Montana this spring amid strained relations

• BirdNote - Migration Stories: The House Sparrow

• Before Breakfast - Be ready to ride the wave

• NPRs UpFirst - 30 May 2025

• You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes - We Made It Weird 219

Music

• JAMS playlist

Saturday - May 31, 2025

Podcasts

• Hey Riddle Riddle - Dinosaucers! (and other stuff) w/ Thomas Sanders

• The Ringer Fantasy Football - NFL News Dump

• The Holy Wild with Victoria Loorz - Re-Enchanting the World Through Relationship with Brother Coyote (Gary Paul Nabhan)

Music

• milofi playlist

• Minor Arcana (Taylor's Version) playlist

Sunday - June 1, 2025

Podcasts

• BirdNote - Bonding with Mom Through Birding

• BirdNote - A Pigeon's Eye View

• NPRs UpFirst - 31 May 2025

• Star Trails - Urban Alignments and Cosmic Parking Spots

• Radiolab - A Flock of Two

• Walden Pod - Aetherism: A New Theory of Consciousness

• Hey Riddle Riddle - Out of Context Clips Bracket

• Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts - Woodpeckers and Witches' Brooms Summer's Secret Symphony

• Hey Riddle Riddle - Promise Not to Laugh

Music

• Taylor Swift self-titled album