A few of my favorite things (to do)

There are a lot of things I like to do that I don’t do often enough. I’m learning how to make jewelry and hair ornaments from silver and copper wire and stones and crystals. I really enjoy this. I’m a complete novice at it and I struggle to make something that doesn’t look too amateurish. But it’s so fun! Other things I like to do:

Play acoustic guitar (I’m a decent rhythm guitar)

Sing (not too scary)

Sew - I actually attended the International Academy of Merchandising and Design back in the mid-80s and learned how to draft and drape patterns

Paint - Watercolor is my favorite medium and I was also introduced to this at the International Academy during fashion illustration class.

Watch birds

Train animals - this is actually very high on my career potential assessment

Listen - I am a good listener. People tell me their struggles and dreams because of this

Write, of course - but not the kind of writing that I do for a living, unfortunately. I love to write creatively and spontaneous, but also love to write to instruct (but only on topics I love, which again, doesn’t really include open source software - not that i don’t love open source software, but it’s kind of dry)

Fishing - this is very relaxing for me. Darin doesn’t have fun unless he catches something, but me, I just love the activity of fishing. It is more fun if you catch something, though, and I don’t mean frog fish.

Photography - this is like instant painting to me. I love the artistic aspects of photography - the layout, the light and shadow, the color or the light and dark of the grayscale.

All of these things make me wish I wasn’t stuck here in front of this doggone computer screen.

Tags: art, hobbies