It's September!

 Somehow this beginning of the month is harder for me to write about.

I've been procrastinating, and now it's here. 

Don't know why, because Autumn is always my favorite month...fresh crisp air and leaf colors...kids going back to school, a new year in a way.

I've never felt it was the dying time...but maybe it is. So perhaps I should be embracing the dying of things. After all it happens to all of us, and even more often to our various appliances. I'll think of the term for that soon. Planned obsolescence. 

Mt. Pisgah, Blue Ridge Parkway 2013

The cycle of life. That's a term which we can all relate to. Think of the song Circle of Life in The Lion King.

And a bit more artistic, I found this source of all of Van Gogh's works, on Open Culture.

Very timely when considering how many of us become somewhat (or more) depressed with wintertime greys and low light levels in the northern hemisphere. Seeing such beauty expressed on canvas by a man who clearly had a rather depressing life, gives a bit of joy to me.

OK rabbit rabbit. I'm all for increasing the amount of good luck in everyone's lives!

Baby bunnies raised by my son's family in CT several years ago.

And Happy Labor Day...celebrate as you choose.

Happy Labor Day 2024

 Can we say Happy Labor Day?

As shared on CBS Sunday Morning April 2024

I also posted last year around this time about the gender gap in job equity. Come over here for more.

That post also was targeted on the ERA which has met the standards of our constitution to become an amendment, and is now waiting for Congress to act on it.

And some more posts from my blog years...

Mine laborers at the end of their shift.

Normal Rockwell's Labor Day cover for 1943 Saturday Evening Post, Liberty Girl, to honor all the jobs women would be doing while men were off fighting WW II.

Some folks have said unions don't have much place these days in the job market. But I certainly cheered for the workers at Amazon who formed a union, as well as those in Starbucks. The working conditions did need to be improved. And this is the only way a group of workers can have a voice.

1933 fresco mural by Diego Rivera at the Detroit Institute of Art

Happy Labor Day America!

The first Labor Day was held in 1882. Its origins stem from the desire of the Central Labor Union to create a holiday for workers. It became a federal holiday in 1894. It was originally intended that the day would be filled with a street parade to allow the public to appreciate the work of the trade and labor organizations. After the parade, a festival was to be held to amuse local workers and their families. In later years, prominent men and women held speeches. This is less common now, but is sometimes seen in election years. One of the reasons for choosing to celebrate this on the first Monday in September, and not on May 1, which is common in the rest of the world, was to add a holiday in the long gap between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.

And an inspiring quote:

Hate has talked so loudly for so long.  Greed has talked so loudly for so long.  Liars have talked so loud for so long.

Love has to stop whispering.

- Marianne Williamson

Our Labor Day last Monday

 

Last weekend was our Labor Day weekend in the US. This Sepia Saturday photo shows a lot of men and maybe one woman with her head turned away, in line to get on a bus.  I don't think I have any bus photos...oh wait, maybe one horse drawn one...ok, off I go to see what comes up via my cursor and a click or two!

London, Piccadilly, Eros, 1895 (I must assume the statue has something to do with a Greek god of love perhaps called Cupid in modern times) I found this photo on FB, where it was posted without any recognition of the Francis Frith Collection (after enlarging a lot I could read at the bottom, which could easily be cut off. 

And Piccadilly in the 1940s - I never can resist a  then and now shot! Do you see the orange and white double decker on the right? It may have been red, with the film perhaps turning reds to orange.

Mine laborers at the end of their shift.

Normal Rockwell's Labor Day cover for 1943 Saturday Evening Post, Liberty Girl, to honor all the jobs women had been doing while men were off fighting WW II.

Some folks have said unions don't have much place these days in the job market. But I certainly cheered for the workers at Amazon who formed a union, as well as those in Starbucks. The working conditions did need to be improved. And this is the only way a group of workers can have a voice.

Happy Labor Day America!

The first Labor Day was held in 1882. Its origins stem from the desire of the Central Labor Union to create a holiday for workers. It became a federal holiday in 1894. It was originally intended that the day would be filled with a street parade to allow the public to appreciate the work of the trade and labor organizations. After the parade, a festival was to be held to amuse local workers and their families. In later years, prominent men and women held speeches. This is less common now, but is sometimes seen in election years. One of the reasons for choosing to celebrate this on the first Monday in September, and not on May 1, which is common in the rest of the world, was to add a holiday in the long gap between Independence Day and Thanksgiving.

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Today's quote:

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. -Edith Wharton, novelist (24 Jan 1862-1937)