Labor Is the Burden of Our Being

September 5, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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A Labor Day poem about the burden and the blessing of labor:

Labor is the burden of our being,

A weight that weds us firmly to the earth,

Blessed servitude that serves a common meaning

On which each may erect a sense of worth.

Remember, then, the beauty of a calling

Demanding both integrity and skill:

A dancer in the drifts of early morning,

Yet traveling towards sunset through sheer will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/3: Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

9/4: Labor Is Identity

9/5: Labor Is the Burden of Our Being