Filling out various questionnaires and applications in life, there is often this one nagging question: Hobbies? ____________________________________________________ I never had real hobbies, so I when I came across that annoying question, I would write in something nondescript like reading or decorating. I’ve always wanted to make lovely things but that is a vague concept that can cover many activities that might be classified as hobbies. The COVID-19 quarantine of 2020 transformed by hobby situation. “Making things lovely” was still the foundation but now I had two new bona fide hobbies that were born during the pandemic. Somewhere along the way, a proverbial light bulb illuminated my brain and I realized how hobbies enrich our lives like nothing else can. I feel happy and at peace when I am working in these newly beloved hobbies. I have friends with this same testimony of discovery during 2020. Many people took this unsettling time …