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Carol H Tucker
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Moons and Mondays
Today is the 22nd day of the second month, the 53rd day of 2016 with only 306 shopping days left until Christmas. You know, figuring out shopping days used to be a lot harde back when stores and malls were closed on Sundays and some other holidays! Today is also Monday, with all the emotional baggage of that day, and:
- Be Humble Day
- European Day for Victims of Crime
- George Washington's Birthday
- International World Thinking Day
- National Cook a Sweet Potato Day
- National Margarita Day
- Walking the Dog Day
- Museum Advocacy Day
- Woolworth's Day -- made famous in the 1960's due to the sit-ins at the lunch counter, the chain went out of business in the beginning of 1997, when the company decided to focus on the Foot Locker division and renamed itself Venator Group. By 2001, the company focused exclusively on the sporting goods market, changing its name to the present Foot Locker Inc (NYSE: FL)
- Tex Avery Day
In 705 the Empress Wu Zetian, the only Chinese empress regnant, abdicated the throne, restoring the rule of the Tang dynasty, which then stayed in power for another 202 years.
The Snow Full Moon brightens the skies tonight.
The "traditional" work week in the West appears to be a basic Monday through Friday trek into the office, giving folks both Saturday and Sunday for personal time. Of course, there are whole swaths of the population who work far different hours, especially in service industries, but the 9-5, M-F mentality prevails as proven by the rush hours that routinely clog the traffic arteries every morning and afternoon. As a symbol of returning to the grindstone, and despite cutsey little upbeat pictures, the perception of dragging oneself away from their private life into the workaday world predominates so strongly that it impacts Sunday nights. The fading hours of the weekend have slowly become part of the chores that are needed to get up and out on Monday morning -- setting alarms, going to bed as it is a work night, maybe figuring out what you are going to wear, maybe packing a lunch ahead of time, making sure the homework is done if there is school involved, that kind of thing.
It is a very simple contractural arrangement under which most of us live: I work, you pay me. I don't work, you don't pay me. You don't pay me, I don't work. The social contract where employers and/or government feel as though they have a responsibility to care for those who cannot work seems to have permanently frayed and broken, the mantra ibeing you must prove how each individual is adding value, and if you are not adding value right now, it doesn't make any difference HOW much value you added back then. Monday morning reminds most of us [unless you are in the upper class income brackets] that you are one accident, one business failure, one illness, one firing away from being considered a liability rather than an asset and sometimes it is a difficult message to hear.
But it is also a fact of life, neh? One can get bitter or one can look forward -- but I still love Friday evenings and don't like Monday mornings!
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