GTKY.........What is something you love or are passionate about???

KirstenAlecia

The boards get a little slow around here compared to the dark side so for me it can be easy for me to get too busy to check in when things are slow......so maybe a GTKY Q!!

For me the obvious would be photography.....its my job and I love it but its also my bread and butter. Im happy to be one of this people who is passionate about my job but i have other things i love as well. 

The other thing I am passionate about is animals. Animal rescue and animal charities is general. I am a volunteer at my local no kill rescue as someone they can call for fostering bottle baby kittens. Its a lot of work and very hard. Not everyone can do it so I am someone they can call when they need that. At the moment I have 5 rescue kittens. 3 from a litter I was handed at the fragile age of 10 days old, another little feral kitten i caught at 4 weeks, and another that the rescue called me to take in at 4 weeks as well. At the moment they range in age  from 3 weeks to 10 weeks (they have grown!!!) It is exhausting, my house is in disarray sometimes, i wake in the middle of the night and  am caring for them around the clock. I love it. I get a huge, swollen, love filled heart knowing that babies that i took care of move on to go to happy, healthy lives because i was able to take care of them under rough circumstances and give them a chance. 

What about you guys???

KLake42

I really love singing in a chorus.  Now, I am not amazing singer, and definitely not a soloist, but I love adding my voice to the communal song.

I sang in high school, but sort of lost it after that-- I just never had a director as good as my high school director.  Now, almost 20 years later, my high school director is still in town, and she's directing a community women's chorus!  Now only that, but the chorus (for all women) is a sister chorus to a local gay men's chorus, so we have the mission of changing hearts and minds through music.  So now I get to do what I love, with the director who has amazing skills at coaching us to make the best possible music, and I get to support my local LGBT community while doing so.  

We've had several women get pregnant, and I've been able to get a lot of support in my TTC efforts through the women I know there, also.  

hooligans4

Good question Kiersten!!!!!
I love baking and decorating cakes. Well just cooking in general. I feed people like I'm a little old Italian grandma. But not old and I'm not Italian.
Another thing that brings me joy is gardening. The smell of just turned over earth is glorious. I love the vibrant colors of flowers and I love growing food that will feed my family (ties in with the cooking).

emsmama15

I'm passionate about my job.  I work in Neonatal Intensive Care as a nurse practitioner and the babies I get to help every day fill my heart!  I want to save everyone, but I know we can't always do that and it breaks my heart.  I probably get too attached, but we've had patients in our unit celebrating their first birthday - how do you NOT get attached?  

On a less heavy note, I really love baseball - go Twins!  

(Great question @KirstenAlecia! I was trying to think of GTKY questions on my way home from work! Great minds think alike!)

dolphin012

Fun question! I will share two:

I am super passionate about soccer -- Go USA!!!!!  

I am also fortunate to have a job i am very passionate about. I am scientist -- and my work is directed towards protecting natural resources. I get to hike and backpack for work and also play with data   So it is both a fun job and something i believe strongly in. 

Carazona5

I love art, especially drawing. I do that a lot and also love to play piano.

jilligan14

I am passionate about dancing and performing (it's what I do for a living!). I also love writing and have several novels in various stages of completion. Am hoping to devote more time to writing this summer. It's always hard to motivate myself, even though I love it.

Carazona5

jilligan14 said:

I am passionate about dancing and performing (it's what I do for a living!). I also love writing and have several novels in various stages of completion. Am hoping to devote more time to writing this summer. It's always hard to motivate myself, even though I love it.

I write a lot also, but have trouble completing one! I always move on to another one before I'm finished because I get a other story idea lol

jilligan14

@Carazona5 Haha, the same thing happens to me too! I get bored of a story and move on to another one. I really want to go back and finish the stuff I started but boy is it hard!

KirstenAlecia

How cool that there are a few of us that get to do what we love for a living!! That is awesome! 

Im glad you guys like the question! 

carrieandr

Like @Carazona5, I love art. I'm a graphic designer to pay the bills, but someday I would love to make a living from from fine art.

thistle8677

I'm an artist and love painting/drawing. I also have a passion for art history. I play guitar, sing and knit. Basically as long as I'm doing something with my hands and creating, I'm happy!

Knottie16743552

@dolphin012 I'm a scientist too! But I'm an environmental consultant at the time (thinking of maaaaaaybe getting into teaching).

My passion is the shore. Yeah yeah, who doesn't like the beach? But I like the fluid dynamics of the water lapping into the marsh, and the way the sand shifts each season (geomorphology), and how the tides influence so much.

Part of the reason I'm thinking of becoming a teacher is to make the move to the shore (like 1 hr away At this point). I just am having this unnatural draw to the ocean anymore...

FemShep

Video games  

Ever since I was a shy, introverted only child, I've loved video games and the ability to live entirely new and unique stories.

KirstenAlecia

love all these!

pumpkinhead4

I really love being outside. I like to go to the beach, hike, go for a walk with my kids or just water my flowers in the sun. I feel like I've wasted sunshine if I stay inside. I also love to read a good book