Labor, laboring, Labor Day

What I love about working… an opportunity for me to express myself through my labor. I feel that people lack pride in their work, in this era service from others (IMHO) is at worst mediocre. Eye to eye contact is lacking, a “thank you” is missing and a ‘welcome back’ is seldom heard. I can’t explain it. Is it the culture we live in?

Work encompasses a major part of ones day… why not engage it with love and humanity guided purpose. To ‘see’ beyond the work and choose to see with the inner eye, how our energy reaches beyond the work and is more about soul work.

Today my work starts in the kitchen preparing a brunch for the family: German pancakes (found this recipe here) mine came out pretty good! > and oven baked ham, eggs and cheese served with tomatoes on the side. Then I’ll piddle in the garden at our Florida Tortoise Preserve. I plan on joining George at our watering hole and then… it’s grillin’ time! (home made hamburgers and red cabbage with bacon coleslaw). Then… cap it off with a cup of pine needle tea which I harvested yesterday and favorite reads.

Here in the U.S. of A. Labor Day is a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women. Celebrated as a national holiday in the United States and Canada since 1894. (Most historians credit Peter McGuire, cofounder of the American Federation of Labor).

… and, President Grover Cleveland signed a law designating the first Monday in September as Labor Day nationwide.

The significance of many things change with the current culture, today Labor Day now carries less significance as a celebration of working people and more as the end of summer. Schools, government offices and businesses are closed on Labor Day many people use the day to get in one last trip to the beach or have one last cookout before the weather starts to turn colder closing the summer.

Enjoy one of this cultures music trend: (dubstep) this is -Elements – Lindsey Stirling