For You, Who Do Such Good, There Should Be Joy

September 5, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is work in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 2.

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A number poem for a surgeon, wishing her joy commensurate with the good she does:

For you, who do such good, there should be joy.

Only joy, pure joy, should fill your heart.

Rendered rightly, all your days should dance,

Taking pleasure in your well-honed art,

Yielding grace that should your spirits buoy.

For you, who spend your days in love’s employ,

In healing those in pain through age or chance,

Vested in your unforgiving part,

Each longing should find all the joy life grants.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Work

9/2: Unions Are a Gift of Our Own Giving

9/3: Let Unions Bear Some Blame for Their Demise

9/4: Life for Most of Us Has Not Improved

9/5: For You, Who Do Such Good, There Should Be Joy