Stone and Signal – Episode 1: Listening to the Quiet
A podcast for the ones who still listen.

In this first episode, I invite you into the space behind the noise. The place where stories begin—not with answers, but with breath. Stone and Signal was born out of tension: between technology and nature, between silence and performance, between the desire to speak and the exhaustion of being seen.

This isn’t a podcast for the algorithm. It’s a slow offering. A quiet resistance.

I talk about what led me here—years of writing fiction and poetry in a world that often demands speed and spectacle. I share my discomfort with social media, my search for authenticity, and the struggle to use a voice that isn’t shaped by expectation. I speak about living close to the land in the Badlands of Alberta, about grief and youth and AI and solitude. I speak about the noise outside and the noise within—and what it takes to hear something real again.

And I read a poem.
It’s called Layers of Becoming.
It’s about digging down beneath the layers we’ve built up—pain, performance, fatigue, joy—and trying to find something true before time runs out.

This episode is for anyone who feels disconnected from their voice. For anyone burned out by the need to be visible. For anyone wondering where meaning went, and how to find it again.

What to Expect in this Episode:
– A reflection on voice, identity, and digital noise
– Thoughts on storytelling as presence, not performance
– A personal meditation on AI, authenticity, and creative resistance
– A poem about peeling back the layers we live under
– A quiet invitation to pause, breathe, and return to your own rhythm

This podcast is created and narrated by Lawrence Nault, an author, poet, and documentary storyteller whose work explores the intersections of environment, identity, and technology. His fiction often focuses on environment, AI, youth, dragons, collapse, and the fragile threads of hope that still run between us.

You won’t find ads or urgency here.
You’ll find stories. Stillness. Signals sent out slow, in hopes they find someone ready to hear.

Read the full transcript: https://mountainthermit.blogspot.com/
Support the podcast by exploring my books: https://lawrencenault.me/Works/books.htm
Blog & journal: https://mountainthermit.blogspot.com/

Thank you for listening.
Until next time, may your signal find the stones that hold it.