Audio Journal

🎧 2025 Week 51 Audio Journal

January 01, 2026•2 min read

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 - Dec 22, 2025

Podcasts

  • The Ringer Fantasy Football - Week 16 Recap

  • Critical Role - C4E8 Fanged Revenge

  • Critical Role - C4E8 Cooldown

  • Critical Role - C4E9 To the Hounds!

  • Critical Role - C4E9 Cooldown

  • Critical Role - C4E10 Blood for Blood

  • My Brother, My Brother & Me - Candlenights XXX

Audiobooks

  • The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

  • Leave It Be by Alan Watts

Tuesday - Dec 23, 2025

Podcasts

  • The Ringer Fantasy Football - Week 17 Waivers

  • Heavyweight - Meredith

  • Heavyweight - Deborah

  • Worlds Beyond Number - EOY Fireside Chat

  • Hello from the Magic Tavern - Earth Comics: The Far Side

  • Hello from the Magic Tavern - Winter Solstice Bonus 2025

  • dharmapunxnyc - Your Body Remembers What Your Mind Forgot

Audiobooks

  • The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

  • Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

  • Leave It Be by Alan Watts

Wednesday - Dec 24, 2025

Podcasts

  • Hey Riddle Riddle - Best of 2025 Part 1

  • The Ringer Fantasy Football - Power Ranking NFL Rules We Want Changed

Audiobooks

  • The First Christmas by Stephen Mitchell

  • Joseph and The Way of Forgiveness by Stephen Mitchell

  • Finding Your Way by Sharon Salzberg

  • Leave It Be by Alan Watts

Friday - Dec 26, 2025

Audiobooks

  • Leave It Be by Alan Watts

Saturday - Dec 27, 2025

Music

  • Vaughn Williams Orchestral Works

  • Brahm's 4th Symphony

  • Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man collection

  • Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

  • Chopin's Nocturnes collection

  • Various Broadway tunes

Sunday - Dec 28, 2025

Audiobooks

  • Shards of Honour by Lois McMaster Bujold

  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang

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