Day 24: A Book, Magazine, or Podcast

Our tracking sheet

 I am grateful for the podcast "1,000 Hours Outside".  The host, Ginny Yurich, is a really warm and engaging personality, a careful reader of interesting books, and a terrific interviewer.  The premise of her show is that we should all be spending more time outside - the number she encourages folks to shoot for is 1,000 hours in a year.  (We are attempting the challenge this year - I will probably do a longer blog on that sometime later this year - that's what the picture is tracking.)  She does a combination of things with her podcast - sometimes she describes fun outdoor destinations and activities, sometimes she motivates by talking about the benefits of outdoor time (whatever that looks like in your life), and more and more she's branching out into interviews with authors who take a deep dive into something that also happens to be a benefit of nature time:  the effect of screens, why kids need risk / independence, the importance of free unstructured play, the family bonding that happens through adventure, etc.  It's all been very informative, challenging (in a good way), and inspiring to me, and for those reasons, I'm thankful for this podcast.