Long May You Labor at Something You Love

September 9, 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 loving what you do:

Long may you labor at something you love,

Awakening daily to passion and pleasure,

Blessed to find joy both in work and in leisure,

Obliged to move mountains you most want to move.

Remember that work is defined by the heart,

Delightful or not as the laborer chooses.

All life is a game that one wins or one loses,

Yielding what one would with will and with art.

© 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

9/6: Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

9/7: Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

9/8: Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living

9/9: Long May You Labor at Something You Love