#108 avocation

avocation- a minor occupation undertaken as a diversion

- C17 from Latin avocatio- a calling away, diversion from, from avocare- to distract

My object in living is to unite
My avocation and vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight. ~ Robert Frost

(Frost certainly made this aspiration come true in his life.)

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