> I AM LOOKING FOR A SINGLE WORD! Heck, you couldn't have answered that
question any better than me! Geez, I need a single word and I get poetic
stuff.
> Ok Ok, I admit it was a hard assignment. Now class, I will give you an
extra
> day before you have to turn in your work. Now, the assignment is, provide
one
> word for what we don't like to call a "hobby". Get it? Any questions?
> (Ha Ha!)
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, NC USA
obsession passion FETISH religion Compulsion enthusiasm Distraction Sickness Weltanschauung
With a boot in my mouth and shaking in it (it's not too often I de-lurk) I'm going to face the gods down and say you're all off the mark. Close, but off the mark. It's an AVOCATION...pure and simple, kind of. Avocation as in (archaic): a calling away: DIVERSION, DISTRACTION; or (modern) "a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's regular work esp. for enjoyment: HOBBY (ach!) Then again, there might be a few of you in which it is a VOCATION: "a summons from God to an individual...to undertake the obligations and perform the duties of a particular task," e.g., collecting vintage bikes. I divide us into two groups (because I feel like it): enthusiasts and aficionados. It's more of a spectrum though, with aficianados being those with more time in the endeavor and money to garner knowledge and goodies; and enthusiasts being those of us with more drool than anything else.
Craig Montgomery in Tucson wishing he had a 12" Weltanschauung