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Sunday, September 4, 2016
TODAY IS LABOR DAY IN THE UNITES STATES AND CANADA BUT IT MAY BE A DIFFERENT DATE IN YOUR COUNTRY
Labor Day is a day to
celebrate the workers of our country or perhaps yours. In the US and Canada, it
is celebrated on the first Monday of September. Some people consider Labor Day
to be the unofficial end of summer but ah it’s really not for summer has
several more weeks to go here in the United States.
In the late 1800’s
there was a movement to honor and celebrate workers. This movement was promoted
by the Knights of Labor and the Central Labor Union here in the US and the
first “Labor Day” parade was in New York in the year 1887--organized by both
unions.
Oregon was the only
state that officially made it a federal holiday; it wasn’t until President
Glover Cleveland designated it as a federal holiday in 1894 for all of the
United States but there were only thirty states at that time that celebrated it
as a federal holiday.
Later on all fifty
states here celebrate Labor Day and it is a federal holiday. In Canada, it is called
“Labour Day” and is celebrated on the same date as it is here in the United
States—the first Monday in September.
Perhaps where you
live it is called “International Workers’ Day” and you celebrate it on May 1.
Other countries have decided upon their own date for a workers’ celebration and
perhaps your country is one of them. For whatever reason, it is a time to
celebrate, lay back and enjoy the day for many but there are those such as
hospital employees or the like that must work on this day despite it all.
Enjoy your own Labor
or Labour Day; if you’ve had your International Workers’ Day, you know it was a
day of rest from work. It took a long time for union workers to fight for a
holiday for most everywhere and to them we should be grateful. And so if today
is your Labor Day try to take some rest and enjoy it for at least you have a
day off from work.
Sherry Hill
©Sherry Hill
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Friday, September 2, 2016
SEPTEMBER
I cannot believe that
it is September at all for just yesterday it was June or so it seems. The older
I become, the faster the months seem to whiz by and it leaves me wondering what
happened to all of them. No sooner do I put my fall things outside does it
become close to December. It wasn’t like that when I was little and onward:
Months seemed to drag by like watching the hands on a school clock which never
seemed to move at all.
Summer’s last hurrah
is still here with us but it goes by too fast and fall seems to want to hurry
more each year. And in between it, September seems to be fighting for its short
lived life.
Why can’t September
linger just a little longer? It’s a month that has been celebrated in poems,
songs and movies but it isn’t now and does that mean that others feel it
passing by too fast as well? I can’t help but think that they do too. It’s also
a month of the start of football games as well as many other events that so
many look forward to with much excitement.
Commercialism in
stores doesn’t help matters much for right now not only do Halloween items
abound but so do Thanksgiving ones. And both mean that within a matter of
weeks, Christmas items will be staring at all of us and it’s just September! I
haven’t put my fall things outside yet but feel the rush to do so for I know
darned good and well that it will be November in a flash.
Not long ago I
thought of combining all months into one big display to put outside and why
not? The months just fly by and no sooner has September left us, when all of a
sudden it’s Easter. But I know if I were to do that someone would take a
picture of it and I’d be a laughing stock and so I nixed that idea really fast.
Still it does linger in my mind because putting seasonal things inside and
outside takes its toll on me and it seems as if that’s all I get done.
I remember older
people telling me that time passes by too fast when one gets older and I didn’t
believe them but I sure do now. They were telling the truth.
But as for September
might as well enjoy its brief stay for that is what it has become: Brief.
Really I liked it a lot better when I was younger because it was endless and it
wanted summer to stay just a little longer while pushing fall into the
background.
Did commercialism make
it go faster? Partly is the answer and partly is an age thing where everything
goes faster and there’s no stopping either at this point and no going back but
oh I wish it would slow down because September is special. It’s the month that
my now grown younger son was born as well as too many memories of school
starting when I was young and then when I became a teacher for school used to
start in September.
I can only say to
enjoy this quickly paced month while you can: I intend to for what will seem
like within minutes, it will be gone. Dried leaves are appearing on my sidewalk
and in my yard, days are getting shorter and whoosh this month will leave us
and much too quickly. September—couldn’t you stay just a little bit longer? And
if this month could answer, it would say “No because I am rushed.” Well true
words there for it is.
Sherry Hill
© Sherry Hill
All Rights Reserved
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