4.6 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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You may know Grace Bonney from Design Sponge but did you know her from her backyard, where she’s been spending the pandemic getting into birding? You do now! Grace tells us all about her adventures in birding and the camera that sparked a love affair.
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0:00.0 | So, Hi everyone welcome to another episode of |
0:19.8 | things just bought it it's the podcast where we talked about |
0:22.4 | what we just bought and what you might need to buy next. |
0:24.0 | I'm your host, Caroline Moss, and I am here with someone you definitely know. |
0:28.4 | Grace Bonnie is the author of the best-selling books in the company of women and design sponge at home. I'm just so |
0:35.0 | happy to have you. Welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. I'm happy to be |
0:39.0 | here. It's great. It's so it's so nice to have you. It's so nice to talk to you. |
0:43.0 | You have a new book coming out on November 9th, |
0:45.1 | collective wisdom, which is sort of a collection of stories |
0:49.6 | from women sort of discovering things about themselves in their lives over the age of 50? |
0:55.0 | Yeah, and it also sort of shares meaningful stories of intergenerational relationships |
1:01.0 | between women who are under 50 and women who are far past 50 which is one of my favorite parts of the book. |
1:07.0 | That's really nice. I really look forward to reading that. I feel especially as I've entered now quite solidly my mid 30s. |
1:15.8 | I hate the idea that my, and I think it's just |
1:21.8 | no one has actually directly told me this, but I think it's that that's that understood sort of societal thing of like well your best days are behind you now or like you know you didn't capitalize on your 20s was the time to make all of your money or figure out who you were going to be or what you're going to be. |
1:35.8 | And I just love stories of people who like start excelling at things after they've grown up and I don't feel that I've grown up yet |
1:46.2 | so it makes a ton of sense. |
1:48.2 | Yeah I think our best days are very much not behind us. They're very much in front of us and the days we get are we're lucky to have them. I think that's kind of a thing that got drilled home to me working on this book was our society in particular like productivity society really focuses on |
2:05.2 | youth and how much you can produce and listening to women who are in their 80s 90s |
2:10.9 | over 100 made it really really clear to me that that matters very, very |
2:15.9 | little in the long run. |
2:17.3 | Do you ever wish that Design Sponge had cropped up in a time where things were a little bit more, had already been like a |
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