Welcome to the Wild and Free Podcast, episode 77.

I'm Ainsley Arment and this week we're talking with Greta Eskridge about her new book, 100 Days of Adventure, and how we can foster curiosity, exploration, and wonder in our own homes.

I found myself some days just craving something outside the four walls of our home.

Not because we never went anywhere, but I needed something different.

I needed to shake up our routine.

That's when I really decided that we would make weekly adventures a part of our learning. Plus, we'll share about some exciting

events happening at the Wild and Free Farm Village this summer. So grab a cup of coffee and join us

on the front porch. Let's get started. I collect words like my son collects matchbox cars.

Mine in a book, his in a box.

We relish rainy days when we can pull out our cachets

to catch a few minutes of solitude with our fascinations.

I've kept a living journal of quotes, ideas, and observations for as long

as I can remember. In the beginning, I was just a girl with a fondness for words and a propensity

to transcribe passages that spoke to me. Wherever I went, I had an invisible gunny sack

for gathering the abstract. At the time, it felt like a strange pastime for a child, so I kept it to myself.

But as an adult, I've discovered it wasn't so uncommon after all.

In fact, writers, artists, philosophers, and thinkers have been doing it for centuries.

As it turns out, it's commonplace.

The term commonplace refers to the ancient practice of keeping a private journal dedicated

to collecting bits of knowledge, sketches, observations, and quotations. It serves as a central

resource of information you want to find, reread,

or reference easily again in the future. Apply named a commonplace book is where one collects

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