Hobbies of Nonprofit Communicators #NPCOMMLIFE

In final week’s publication, Kivi requested our subscribers to share what hobbies you’ve got picked up because the pandemic wears on.

We obtained so many implausible responses, we’re switching gears from our Day within the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator sequence to a brand new mini-series: Hobbies of Nonprofit Communicators.

So let’s all take a breather from fascinated by work and share the enjoyable stuff we’re as much as.

We’ll begin sharing the tales we’ve gotten already, however we’d additionally love to listen to from you. What have you ever been as much as? We now have heard from individuals with a variety of new pursuits from cease movement video to puzzles to studying a brand new instrument. We heard from individuals who have additionally adopted new pets within the final 12 months.

E mail me what your new pastime or curiosity to be added to the sequence!

Here’s what Kivi and I loved throughout quarantine:

Kivi has actually gotten into free tea. I’ve all the time been a tea drinker, however largely caught to grocery retailer bagged teas. A buddy invited me to a Fb Group for free tea drinkers, and my new pandemic pastime grew from there. She will get tea mail now from firms like Plum Deluxe, August Unusual, and Magic Hour.

And me? I adopted two rescue canine in 2020.

I randomly noticed a Fb put up by a neighborhood rescue shelter a couple of Beagle named Max and it simply so occurs I grew up with a Beagle identify Max so how might I say no!

He’s round 5 years outdated and has a fairly tragic backstory. He didn’t actually know find out how to be a canine. He’s very skittish and didn’t play with toys And since everybody was nonetheless dwelling from college, we determined to undertake one other canine in December. Enter Hazel who is nearly a 12 months and really a lot is aware of find out how to be a canine.

Her story isn’t fairly as tragic as she at the very least had a house at one level. However she teaches him find out how to play and he teaches her find out how to be lazy. They make a candy pair.