What we do in our leisure time is a reflection of who we are.  I think our hobbies say a lot about us.  When I saw this poster at a French school I begged to have it.  There is so much subtlety going on in the details I just love it.  He lives in my office now safely nestled with other wolves of all varying kinds while he continues to read up on Little Red Riding Hood.  (So we have discovered his hobby.)  I adore a man in cufflinks (my husband can rock them like no one) and he is even drinking my favorite libation!  You know what?  Upon closer inspection I realize they may not be whiskey stones but perhaps just ice cubes.  Huh.  Funny how we see what we want to, isn’t it?  I find people’s hobbies fascinating.  I would say I read for pleasure and collect as a hobby.  I love Edward S. Curtis photographs, anything with a wolf on it, and fossils, particularly ammonites.  The American actor George Takei said:

“My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day.  She said every morning is a new gift.  Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.”

Out of all the hobbies I have heard of I thought this was the loveliest:  living life to the fullest and collecting birthdays.