Beautiful Gray Sponge

<p>My own gray sponge has been saturated and shaped by so many unique thinkers. This is a podcast where I share the stories of those minds, their words, other ideas, and more. From philosophers, poets, musicians, artists, scientists, and others, I invite listeners to learn a bit more about seekers from the past. Along the way, consider and share personal reflections, questions, and challenges. Together, our beautiful gray sponges coalesce and continue to grow too.</p>

E. F. Schumacher

“Virtually all real production has been turned into an inhuman chore which does not enrich a man but empties him.”

08-09
24:44

Margaret Brown

“I am a daughter of adventure.” Art by Hailey Russell Music by Peter Bille Larsen I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

11-08
37:07

Mikhail Bakhtin

“To be means to communicate.” Art by Hailey Russell Music by Peter Bille Larsen I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

05-03
30:30

Martin Buber

“All real living is meeting.” Art by Hailey Russell Music by Peter Bille Larsen I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

04-22
25:56

John Dewey

"Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful." Art by Hailey Russell Music by Peter Bille Larsen I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

12-10
24:25

Vincent Van Gogh & Yellow

“How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun!” Art by Hailey Russell Music by Erik Satie I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

10-11
01:00

Bessie Coleman

“I want to find a bigger life… I want to amount to something…” Art by Hailey Russell Music by Eubie Blake I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

07-31
25:22

The Mustard Seed

Wisdom from the mustard seed Art by Hailey Russell Music by Emotiona I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

06-11
12:28

Sequoyah

“They did not cause me to begin, and they shall not cause me to stop.” Art by Hailey Russell Music from Cameron Bailey (Table 9) I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

02-18
16:35

Mary Wollstonecraft

"The beginning is always today." Art by Hailey Russell Music from Musopen I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

01-23
22:07

Major Taylor

"Life is too short for a man to hold bitterness in his heart." Art by Hailey Russell Music by Emotiona I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

01-04
22:01

Host - Lindsey Trostle

"I want to live a simple, inexpensive life so I can read and write and think to my heart's content." Art by Hailey Russell Music by Emotiona I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

01-01
10:00

Elsie de Wolfe

"I am going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life." Art by Hailey Russell Music from Pixabay I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.  

10-27
21:27

Ralph Ellison

“The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.” Art by Hailey Russell Music by Emotiona I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

09-18
17:30

Rainer Maria Rilke

“Go to the limits of your longing… Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.” Art by Hailey Russell Music by Emotiona I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

07-17
23:17

Barbara McClintock

"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say." Art by Hailey Russell Music by Emotiona I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

05-24
13:50

Robert Schumann

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler. - Robert Schumann Art by Hailey Russell Music by Schumann through Musopen I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

04-01
18:35

Heraclitus

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." - Heraclitus Art by Hailey Russell Music by Emotiona I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

03-22
08:00

Simone Weil

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” - Simone Weil Art by Hailey Russell Music by Emotiona I’m super grateful to you for liking and sharing this podcast, but if you’d also like to support me with a no-gift-too-small donation, you can do that by visiting my personal page.

03-08
09:34

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