Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast.

This is the podcast for people who want to know the how and the why of slow living in a fast-paced world.

My name is Brooke McCallory.

Thank you for joining us. And my name is Brooke McCallory. Thank you for joining us.

And my name is Ben McCallory and you're listening to episode 159 where Brooke is going to speak to Brony Where? I am. I am. This is such a beautiful, optimistic, positive, truthful conversation.

I absolutely loved it.

Tell us a little bit about Brony.

So Brony where, I'm sure most of you, even if you don't know her name, probably are,

you're aware of her blog posts that she wrote way back in 2009.

She wrote this blog post that went absolutely

mental. Yeah, I remember it. Completely viral. It was on all the news. Like it just, it just blew up

the internet. And the blog post, of course, is top five regrets of the dying. And Brony was a nurse in palliative care for a long time and worked obviously

with people who were you know at the end of their life their last days and she would would

either live with them or care for them in their homes typically and she heard over the years

these this this common thread of regret that people had when they were facing these last days of their life.

And she found it so incredibly moving and so much richness, I guess, or so much to learn from these common regrets that people kept talking to her about, that you wanted to write them

down and she understood that there is so much to learn from that as someone who is not at the

end of their life, someone who's in the thick of it, you know.

And so my understanding is you don't actually talk about the blog post.

We don't.

So I wanted to talk about it really quickly now because I think that there is so much

there and it obviously informs a lot of what Brony has done since. She's gone on to write books.

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