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Lawrence Nault | Stone & Signal
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📚 Author | 🎙️ Podcaster | 🎥 Filmmaker
Stories from the quiet edges—cli-fi to AI, youth-led futures to ancient fires.
✨ Stone & Signal podcast | The Life of Phi | Draconim series
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"Not all progress looks forward. Sometimes it looks back, and chooses differently." L. Nault

#progress #reflection #choosedifferently #history #change
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December 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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"The forest doesn’t fear winter. It knows how to hold life quietly, until the time to bloom returns." L. Nault

#forestwisdom #winter #patience #seasons #nature
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December 15, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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This has been an amazing weekend.
An anthology launched with one of my short stories, & Children of the Rogue reached sale numbers I didn’t expect.

Bonus: the audiobook passed final QC & is now moving into distribution.

A quiet but very real happy dance. 💃✨
#AmReading #Audiobooks #WritingCommunity
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Why is this landlocked mountain hermit posting a whale?
Because stories travel farther than I ever do—and one of mine has just found a home in a beautiful new anthology from Filidh Publishing. 🐋

filidhbooks.com/products/a-w...

#WhaleOfATale #ClimateFiction #OceanStories #ShortStories
Book cover for 'A Whale of a Tale: Anthology of the Sea' featuring a humpback whale's tail flukes breaching vertically from deep blue ocean waters, with white waves splashing around it and mountains visible in the hazy background under a clear blue sky. White serif text at the top reads the title, with the subtitle 'Thirteen tales from the deep, where every story makes waves' in italics at the bottom, and 'By Filidh Publishing Authors' in smaller text.
December 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"You don’t need power to make change. You need presence. And persistence." L. Nault

#presence #persistence #change #activism #power
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December 13, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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"Our ancestors dreamed us into being. The least we can do is listen when the earth speaks back." L. Nault

#ancestors #earth #listen #nature #reciprocity
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December 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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"Our ancestors dreamed us into being. The least we can do is listen when the earth speaks back." L. Nault

#ancestors #earth #listen #nature #connection
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December 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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"You can’t automate trust. You have to earn it. Slowly. Honestly. With your hands visible." L. Nault

#trust #authenticity #honesty #humanconnection #transparency
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December 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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"You don’t have to destroy yourself to be good. You only have to keep showing up, with your full humanity intact." L. Nault

#showup #selfcompassion #humanity #youareenough #wholeness
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December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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"When you feel small, remember: so is a seed. And seeds move mountains over time." L. Nault

#smallbeginnings #seed #growth #patience #hope
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December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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"Algorithms don’t care about your soul. But the sunrise still does." L. Nault

#algorithms #sunrise #nature #humanity #reconnect
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December 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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"The forest has no concept of ownership. Only interdependence. That is its secret strength." L. Nault

Follow the words that move you. Read my books.

#forestwisdom #interdependence #nature #ecosystem #community​
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December 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It’s official! Children of the Rogue is out today—paperback & ebook, audiobook before Christmas. Instead of asking “How do we live with AI?” it asks: “What if humanity is the AI?”

Get your copy: https://books2read.com/u/4ADrNp#SciFi #BookRelease #AI #ChildrenOfTheRogue
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December 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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"If a world demands you forget who you are to belong, it’s not a world worth belonging to." L. Nault

#authenticity #belonging #identity #selfworth #beyourself
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December 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The internet was supposed to open up the world and make our small worlds bigger....

#algorithms #digitalcritique #internetculture #socialmedia #perspective
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December 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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"We are not just made of stardust. We are made of stories, passed hand to hand like fire in the dark." L. Nault

#stardust #storytelling #legacy #stories #connection
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December 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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"There is nothing soft about standing your ground when everything tells you to move." L. Nault

#standyourground #resilience #courage #strength #conviction​
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November 30, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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"Not everything buried is meant to stay hidden. Some truths wait for the right hands to lift them back into the light." L. Nault

#truthseeking #buried #revelations #truth #healing​
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November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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"The world does not need your certainty. It needs your willingness to stay, to change, to learn again." L. Nault

#humility #growth #learning #change #compassion
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November 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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"A moment of real connection can unlearn years of separation." L. Nault

#connection #healing #unity #reconciliation #togetherness
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November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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"The system was never broken. It was built like that. Our task isn’t to fix it—it’s to grow something better beneath it." L. Nault
#systemic #resistance #transformation #buildalternatives #revolution
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November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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While the U.S. rushes to undo environmental protections faster than Grandma can unravel a row of knitting, some are still fighting for the future—young dragons who don’t yet know who they are. Fiction, fantasy, and reality collide.
books2read.com/u/mgekQD

#ClimateFiction #YAFantasy #Dragons
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November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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"There’s a kind of strength in gentleness that machines will never understand." L. Nault

#gentlestrength #humantouch #technology #kindness #wisdom
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November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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"What you choose not to look at will shape you just as much as what you face." L. Nault

#Awareness #Choice #Growth #Perspective #InnerWork
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November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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"The land doesn’t forget who listened. Neither do people." L. Nault

#Listening #Respect #Connection #Legacy #Reciprocity
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November 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM