Happy Labor Day!
Labor Day is the bookend on the opposite end of summer from its holiday beginning, Memorial Day.
July Fourth is its early peak, with the promise of many long light-filled days ahead. But Labor Day is summer’s last gasp, the moment I dreaded as a child because it marked the finish of vacation and the start of the school year. Spiffy new clothes, a shiny bookbag, freshly sharpened pencils, and the promise of beautiful autumn leaves’ arrival were nice. But they couldn’t make up for the fact that a new school year was beginning. Where oh where had the summer gone?
Now let’s celebrate the fact that we don’t have to worry about that anymore—except, perhaps, for the teachers among you.
Here’s wishing you all a Happy Labor Day! Barbecues, picnics, parades, beach, just hanging out in your yard, whatever you desire. “Labor” itself—as in the labor movement, the die-hard union people—may not be having such a happy one, though. Obama has failed them, at least so far. And my Labor Day wishes for the unemployed is that they find jobs soon.
[NOTE: The beginning of this post is an excerpt from a previous post.]
Mr. Hoffa and Mr. Obama appear to have made some insightful, constructive comments this Labor Day.
And we wonder what Hussein will have to say on 9/8?? We await his game-changing words?
I live in an area that should be full of Labor Day celebrations; unfortunately, the unions succeeded in bringing the companies down. For those of you looking to invest – lots of cheap property around, if you can get through the regulations.
I too am from the Northeast originally and although I’ve lived in California going on 22 years, I cannot get used to seeing the kids go back to school in mid August. Here in the Bay Area, some of our warmest weather arrives in September, and August is by no means cool, but off to the classrooms march the kids at the peak of the summer. I’m glad I had the joy as a child of stretching the summer till after Labor Day. But that first Tuesday back with the nuns at Holy Name in Manhattan sure was a downer.
Teachers… and homeschooling moms. I guess I AM a teacher this year.