Once, long ago a child asked me, "What’s the difference between a job and a vocation?"
In my own feeble way I attempted to answer in terms both convenient and digestible, "A job is work you have to do. A vocation is what you do because it’s what you must do"
Clearly too convenient and not at all digestible I was assessed with incredulous eyes and deemed insufficient. A diagnosis I could confirm with a mix of parental pride (for it would result in independent verifications and research) and parental shame for falling so woefully shy of the mark.
Later I would be confronted. "A vocation isn’t doing things because you ‘must’. I looked it up." Chin pointed upwards in defiance and victory. "The word comes from something spiritual… or something. So a vocation is spiritual."
So it is.
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- Solar bottle lights
- Brilliant
- Why Amish Men Grow Beards But Not Mustaches
- via Coudal.com
- Who stole the Mona Lisa?
- How the famous painting wound up on the kitchen table of a house painter for two years.
- Six-Penny Anthems II
- A classic Bearskinrug Article. Get your wallet out.
- Infra Red Pyramids
- So cool
- BE NICE OR LEAVE
- want.
- Stockholm flat
- I'll take it.
- The only way to play guitar
- It's sort of like Richie Havens' style only...squared.
- A 240-Year-Old Map Is Reborn
- Stunning restoration of a rare map of New York City
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