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The Buzz: Give the bees a swarm welcome!

Happy April, Hive community! We are so excited to share some big news for the Hive. After a series of branding strategy sessions with our team this spring, we’ve decided to take our identity as the “Hive” one step further. Starting April 10th, we will be releasing a swarm of bees into the Hive, where they will make their new homes in the various nooks and crannies in our creative spaces. We’ve been consulting with a local beekeeper, who has assured us that the bees won’t pose any threat or major disruption to the Hive activities and users, and only add value and buzz. We’ve always seen the Hive as a space for cross-pollination of ideas and energy, and we’re so thrilled to add literal cross-pollination to the mix of activities that happen in our space. We’ll be training all of our student staff in basic beekeeping skills over the next few weeks, and will begin offering beekeeping and honey harvesting skill shares starting in May! We are honored to be the first design center to bring pollinators into our space, and are excited to see all that we will learn from our buzzing friends.

…. April Fools!

The Hive is not, in fact, releasing a swarm of bees into its halls. We will remain a Hive in the metaphorical sense, and the most bees you’ll see in the Commons will be our student staff wearing all of our bee-themed shift apparel.

So if we’re not doing April Fools, the next best thing is … April Fuels.

I asked some members of our team here at the Hive to share with me one thing that has been fueling them in their work or creative processes recently.

Below, a toolbox of sorts, for the next time you need a little inspiration or fuel. Or honey.

Zoë’s fuel: A gem in the inbox clutter

I’ve been really into substacks lately. I’ve been signing up for different newsletters by writers that like to share some of their musings and thoughts and processes.

One newsletter I love reading is “Monday Monday” by Marlee Grace, a writer out of Northern Michigan. I found their work after meeting them in a coffee shop.

The long form style is really giving me more insight into their process and their thought patterns. I also think people are really honest in those long form pieces. They’re like, “actually, this week was really hard for me,” or, “this week was really mundane, I didn’t really do anything.” And that’s inspiring, because it shows me that even the people I look up to don’t have glitz and glam lives 24/7.

Try Zoë’s fuel: Check out substack.com and browse through some of the newsletters! Once you find one newsletter you like, the algorithm will suggest more for you to explore.

 

Read the full article here!