WHY CELEBRATE LABOR DAY?

As additional insight-driven thoughts, offering my mind reason to relax within a positively focused attitude, have expanded yesterday’s post, I decided to delete the original post in favor of reprinting my expansive musings, found below.  So without further ado, here we go:

Have you ever wondered why we celebrate Labor Day?

 Quoted from DOC—the U.S. Department of Labor:

“Observed the first Monday in September, Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers. The holiday is rooted in the late nineteenth century, when labor activists pushed for a federal holiday to recognize the many contributions workers have made to America's strength, prosperity, and well-being.”

So thank you to all of the workers who have striven to enhance America’s “strength, prosperity, and well-being.”

And to those of you who’d wondered why we celebrate this holiday, every year—you’re welcome,

Though we’re meant to relax over Labor Day weekend, my son, David, and I worked together to complete the feat of cleaning out my closet before we began to unpack my duds, which, over these last two weeks, had remained neatly folded in the same duffle that David had helped to pack up the day before Will and I drove home from the coast.  I can’t tell you how relieved and relaxed my mind feels, today, knowing that laboring at this task is behind me.

I get along with a little help from my friends—and family.  Truthfully, I couldn’t accomplish most of whatever needs doing without A LOT of heartfelt help from my loved ones.

As you may remember, Will had injured his back soon after our arrival on the coast, so the morning after David had packed us up in readiness for our drive home, Barry arrived at the condo to help his brother load our car while Marie and our grandsons set out everyone’s favorite blend of Starbucks coffee, hot chocolate and muffins for each one’s personal enjoyment.  Then upon our arrival at home, Steven drove over to unpack our car.  And having reminded myself of our family’s good fortune concerning our having worked together to employ a fully packed ‘giving-and-receiving-love department’, which offers my personal sense of familial contentment sound reason to overflow so steadily from deep within my heart as to readily fill my mind with relaxation, renewed  … 

💖Annie