Happy Labor Day, Scruffnecks! …. and that has nothing to do with the color of your collar.
Everything of great purpose comes from within, and from a loving God. As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said:
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”
Yes, it’s Labor Day in America. We pause and celebrate work, productivity, problem solving, and the value of our workforce. A nation built on ingenuity – so long as we tend the flickering flame of liberty.
So, to all my brothers and sisters who do not take part in the grand lies that surround us, THANK YOU!
No other nation on earth was ever conceived on the principle of allowing people to manifest their own destiny, while keeping government out of their lives. The vision, the premise and the purpose, was to allow you the freedom to determine your place in life; and even, at any time, change that determination and strike off in an entirely new direction.
Our labor and aspirations would not be pre-determined by caste, tier, creed or social status; but rather by our personal vision for our own future. The right of self-determination.
Labor Day is a time to reflect on the value of work; the great personal benefit of endeavors achieved; the pride in accomplishment -regardless of scale- amid this thing we call life; and all of these considerations have absolutely nothing, not-one-thing, to do with the money we assemble in the process.
When we share the message, “live your best life”, it is not without purpose. Every moment that we allow a negative onslaught to deter us from living our dreams, is a moment those who oppose our nation view as us taking a knee. Do not allow this effort to succeed.
You might ask yourself how I can, one person, a flea looking into a furnace, retain an optimistic disposition while all around me seems chaotic and mad.
That’s the point; it ‘seems’ chaotic and mad because it has been created to appear that way. There are more of us than them; they just control the systems that allow us to connect, share messages and recognize the scale of our assembly. We cannot comply our way out of tyranny.
Every second that you live your life with thankfulness for the abundance within it; every moment that we CHOOSE to engage with fellowship; every day that we accept guidance from God, and every moment we cherish this time in our life is a moment we live in the spirit of our forefathers.
It is a genuinely patriotic position to live honestly, without pretense.
All around us, in every tribe and region, there are people who need you to show them the strength you have. Strength of spirit. Strength of fellowship that you will not relent from expressing. Lead your children, your children’s children, and the children of your community with an unwavering and steadfast example.
No matter what distractions are shouting from the loudspeakers we must withstand it; you must withstand it. We must find within ourselves purpose and joy.
We cannot allow despair to be the status quo; and we cannot allow a generation to experience a world without joy. In this endeavor you can make a difference. If you do not control your thoughts, eventually your thoughts will control you.
Our nation needs more people like you, right now. Don’t wait… engage life.
“Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.” ~ Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
You make a difference.
When you hold open the door, you make a difference. When you choose to love, you make a difference. When you pray with purpose, you make a difference. When you show up, even when you are not sure what comes next, you make a difference. It is who you are that makes a difference to the people around you.
Regardless of your chosen occupation or effort, do it well. Permit the outcome to showcase your standard. Be proud of yourself. Allow the method of your labor to express the value of who you are and celebrate the accomplishment.
You matter!
Thank you for you. Thank you for your fellowship and for your kindness.
With warmest personal regards,
Happy Labor Day!
My team processes 1.2 million packages a day.
This day is for them!
I love each and everyone of them.
This can only happen in America.
They work 12 hours a day. They make well into 6 figures a year.
They never complain.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Are you hiring?
Unfortunately, we are a new facility. We over hired to account for attrition. Nobody wants to leave. When a person leaves we don’t back fill the position. A couple of people have left but nowhere near the amount we expected.
May The LORD BLESS you with expansions in JESUS NAME!
AMEN
“We over hired to account for attrition. Nobody wants to leave. When a person leaves we don’t back fill the position. A couple of people have left but nowhere near the amount we expected.”
You were wise to plan for attrition. A job demanding baseline 12 hour day workweeks for a living wage tends to burn out and break down normal Americans over time, especially as they age.
If nobody wants to leave, you succeeded in tapping into a younger pool motivated by fear of the alternative in that local economy.
Mental state is crucial. Extract all you can out of them, before they get discouraged by the realization they are on a hamster wheel until they start breaking down and their employer discards them.
Be careful with “employee motivation” ploys however, some will see through them and take affront, these things can backfire.
(PS – This is also a glimpse into why American business supports the US government steps toward a China-style authoritarian regime. China is the leader in controlling and exploiting labor.)
Oh tinkerer….. you must live in/on government subsidies. 40 hour weeks are mandatory. Let me help you with the math. If Johnny works a 12 hour shift, how many shifts can he work in a 40 hour week? What???? 3 shifts with 4 days off!!!!
Oh but tinkerer they don’t work just 36-40 hours. Some work 60 hours a week like me.
I don’t play those bullshit head games with my staff. I don’t need to. They are cherished. They are bathed in the truth.
My team, the team busts their asses. We all are like minded at work because of good hiring. We all work hard and enjoy the monetary rewards of 6 figure incomes. To be clear 6 figures to the left of the decimal point.
If you came to me and said that stuff in your reply, I would put you on permanent bathroom duty. That’s the perfect place for your verbal diarrhea. Government subsiders like you would quit immediately. You are all the same. Lazy……….
Only in AMERICA!
God bless AMERICA
God bless Sundance.
I wish I could tell all of his audience how amazing my team is. Americans are a unique breed.
Sundance … thank you for this post. You are a true AMERICAN TREASURE.
“They make well into 6 figures a year.”
Does that include what’s to the right of the decimal point?
You mean like gasoline?
$3.498
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And God bless YOU for making this possible 😃
GOD BLESS YOU, SUNDANCE!!!
Sundance, we need the picture of POTUS serving up fries or driving the garbage truck….or walking amongst the many construction sites in his prior life.
And manifesting our own destiny includes the flexibility and courageous attitude to ‘reinvent’ oneself if need be.
Back in the mid 80’s, I will remind us all that we were notified, prepared for a time when jobs would not be plentiful. I remember hearing that and wondering how…?
Well orchestrated plans in action, that we have been living through for the last 15-20 years….which leads me to…TPTB can’t help themselves…they spill the beans although it may take years…to become evident…like how they prepared for the ‘baby boomers who were going to bankrupt medicare’ and it needed a ‘fix’. That too, ‘changes in health care’, was planned for in the late 80’s and early 90’s.
“Those who had freedom and lost it have never known it again”
“The New Republican Party I envision will not be, and cannot, be one limited to the country club-big business image that, for reasons both fair and unfair, it is burdened with today. The New Republican Party I am speaking about is going to have room for the man and the woman in the factories, for the farmer, for the cop on the beat and the millions of Americans who may never have thought of joining our party before, but whose interests coincide with those represented by principled Republicanism. If we are to attract more working men and women of this country, we will do so not by simply “making room” for them, but by making certain they have a say in what goes on in the party. The Democratic Party turned its back on the majority of social conservatives during the 1960s. The New Republican Party of the late ‘70s and ’80s must welcome them, seek them out, enlist them, not only as rank-and-file members but as leaders and as candidates.”
—Ronald Reagan – The New Republican Party | The Patriot Post
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/rosie-odonnell-apologizes-after-falsely-claiming-minn-school-shooter-was-republican-maga-supporter/
Onward!
Thank you, Sundance, for all your posts!
Thanks Sundance, for a message like a mountain of Truth and Hope and Joy. Godspeed.
ima have me one darn tooten good time today. with good friends and some barbecue.
God Bless America, the land that I love.
And God bless you regitiger!
When you refuse to take part in lies, you always know who are your real friends.
The friend herd really thins.
My friend herd also thin but everybody in the small herd is happy and fulfilled.
And most of us can count real friends on one hand. Especially since covid.
Thanx Sundance for reminding people of the important things in life. Just heard a song by George Harrison “All things must pass” . Everything in this universe passes away including us. Love is the law of the universe and should be included in your life. Jesus said “Forgive them God” for the people nailing him to the cross.
Go to a county fair, if you have not already, and enjoy and marvel at all the hard work and ingenuity that has built this country. From the display of old engines and their evolution into modern day farm equipment, to the 4-H kids and their love of God’s creatures in the animal world, to the artistic talents in so many areas, from painting, to sewing, to baking, to the abundance of delicious food and the thousands of happy people – truly you will experience the fullness of God’s blessings.
We had the opportunity to visit one of the best fairs in this country (IMO) this weekend and it is heartening to see that the traditions are continuing. I thank God for the people who are carrying this on. It is truly a labor of love.
Happy Labor Day!
Volunteering at The Fair this week! I’ve been involved in local fairs for over 50 years.
God bless you for volunteering. I have gone to our local fair for over 60 years. Honestly, at times I have taken it for granted. For some reason, this year, I really began to appreciate it and all the work that goes into it. Maybe being able to take my grandchildren there opened my eyes.
We’re playing a couple of fairs this month and next.
I always love going to all the booths after we finish and the music equipment is all packed up, to see all the handmade wares…
Beautifully said.
Today I will labor, I have to clean up my van, camping gear and eBike from a weekend of dusty dirt roads. I will have to work hard to burn off the engine block burritos I ate.
Way back in the day…..old school over the road truck drivers would place food items to warm up on their truck engines. Haven’t heard the method mentioned in eons.
And yet it makes perfect sense.
The guys in Iraq used to cook pizzas on their humvees.
Operating a D6 Cat, logging, we did the same.
Did it then too. And it’s still a good way to get a hot meal! Construction operators did it too! I’m an actual “old school”trucker……lol! Real old!
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Retired Magistrate here: My parents taught me that no matter what you do, do it well; tell the truth and help others.
After 77 years I have discovered that if you do these things, you will live your best life.
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My father said the same thing. He didn’t care what profession I pursued, just make an honest living and be thankful for all things in your life! I had just turned into a teenager, LOL (’63). Have a good Labor day Treepers!
I’m also 77 and have come to realize more and more in my golden years that a simple, loving life is the best. Family and true friends and kindness to all is the ticket.
That free will that he gives each one of us to keep our heart from doing what they love doing. They Portray their evil hearts in Hollywood movies.
Marcia: I can still here my Dad whispering to me almost daily: “If YOU don’t do it, who will? And if YOU are going to do it — do it right”.
For me, “It’s a dirty job, someone has to do it.”
110% always.
Thomas Paine: Common Sense:
” …The nearer any government approaches to a Republic, the less business there is for a King. It is somewhat difficult to find a proper name for the government of England. Sir William Meredith calls it a Republic; but in its present state it is unworthy of the name, because the corrupt influence of the Crown, by having all the places in its disposal, hath so effectually swallowed up the power, and eaten out the virtue of the House of Commons (the Republican part in the constitution) that the government of England is nearly as monarchical as that of France or Spain. Men fall out with names without understanding them. For ’tis the Republican and not the Monarchical part of the Constitution of England which Englishmen glory in, viz. the liberty of choosing an House of Commons from out of their own body — and it is easy to see that when Republican virtues fail, slavery ensues. Why is the constitution of England sickly, but because monarchy hath poisoned the Republic; the Crown hath engrossed the Commons.
In England a King hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which, in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain!
Of more worth is one honest [working] man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.” …….
As James says in the 5th chapter of his epistle: When you are feeling despondent, pray to our Lord for the strength and wisdom to endure.
Love that photo of President Trump, the champion of every working man and woman in this great nation.
Congress on the other hand is finishing up their six week vacation…Thune, Johnson, and the rest of the boys and girls in the DC band. They are still receiving the part of their income which every working taxpayer contributes to…
And President Trump??
He has been working almost 24-7 for the betterment of the lives of hard pressed citizens who get out of their beds to make ends meet, the job made more onerous by reprehensible Democrats and their odious allies.
One or two days off to recharge with a game of golf. That’s all he will allow himself. Then, eschewing any pay for his indefatigable days, it’s back to work…
For us…
For those who really are the backbone of our Republic and always have been.
God bless all who labour, God bless this nation, and God bless and keep the only man in Washington DC who knows for whom he is working 🙏🏻🇺🇸
President Trump has more than earned the First Place 🏆 🥇 for Labor on this special day! 🇺🇲❤️🤍💙🇺🇲
(To quote Betsy, “Labour Day!” 💕)
Ha!! For this day alone, dear Lorrie, I will always write it using the rightful American spelling…
Happy Labor Day to one and all!! 💕
For Every Man in his Work…
Almighty God, our heavenly Father, who declarest Thy glory and showest forth Thy handiwork in the heavens and the eartb; Deliver us, we beseech Thee, in our several callings, from the service of mammon, that we may do the work which Thou givest us to do, in truth, in beauty, and in righteousness, with a singleness of heart as Thy servants, and to the benefit of our fellow men; for the sake of Him who came among us as one that serveth, Thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
~The Book of Common Prayer~
You gotta love those with a servant’s heart. Thanks for the prayer about God’s handiwork in the heavens and the earth. No matter how you spell it!
I love those words, Intense. There is something deeply spiritual about them. I can almost see him sewing the galaxies and gently placing star of which He knows name and number exactly where He wants them.
I like your spelling.
It makes me miss the Europe I once knew.
It is an entirely different neighborhood these days! 😢
President Trump seems a bit rough around the edges Betsy but he is a fine example of a strong man to pattern after.
He is, dear Monti, and always has been I think. When such a time comes, as it does for all of us, he will be judged for his heart…which is big, generous, and beautiful.
I’ll take the rough edges every day rather than the polished veneers of those whose own hearts and priorities are for self alone, who pose as lovers of humanity but who in fact despise it. Those who are uncomfortable in the presence of people not like themselves and can’t help but show it.
Unlike President Trump who is right at home when he is amongst the working men and women he with whom interacts. That shows as well and is wonderful to watch. That sort of affinity cannot be feigned.
Books and their covers, my friend 💕😊
Outstanding insight and comments, Betsy!
Jesus is at the last stop for salvation, just outside the gates of danmation, liars, sinners amd hypocrates welcome.
They have been given a choice, my friend. But since death is optional for them, or so they believe apparently, why worry? In truth, it is President Trump who is on his chosen journey to lift all the boats of honest labourers….those who grind daily and have found themselves over the years struggling, ignored, invisible.
Impossible to not feel hopeful that the fruits of his own labours will multiply as his term gathers speed. I pray so…
It takes a man “a bit rough around the edges” to run a country such as ours.
I wish I could send this to every senator and congress critter. My wish is to shame them, of course. They have a mentor and role model in front of them but yet most of them are in it for themselves.
I should have added Republicans…
By their cowardice and allegiance to corporations (the Chamber of Commerce), they’re just as culpable.
Sundance, your Labor Day thoughts have me remembering…
“Reagan’s Farewell Address”
God Bless America!
“Work” is a dirty four letter word since I retired over a decade ago. Now I just have “projects” to do around the house. Cheers!
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I am spending this day thinking about my dad, who was both the happiest and the hardest working man I have ever known! He worked full time from the time he was 12 years old until he passed away, unexpectedly, at age 77, still full of energy and curiosity. I miss him every single day and try to live my life in a way that would make him proud!
Sounds like a miner or other skilled craftsman. God Bless
Actually, he was a sales rep, with a reputation for always being honest and going above and beyond for every store/manufacturer that he worked with! He lost most of his business in the ’90s after NAFTA destroyed the manufacturing core throughout the rest belt. But he never felt sorry for himself – he just kept on working, partially to supplement his Social Security, but also just because he loved driving around and getting together with friends for lunch!
V. Mom– I think our dads were related! 😢
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is a peculiar gratification to me to have owed my election…above all to Abraham Lincoln’s “plain people’; to the folk who worked hard on the farm, in shop, or on the railroads, or who owned little stores, little businesses which they managed themselves. I would literally, not figuratively, rather cut off my right hand than forfeit by any improper act of mine the trust and regard of these people…. I shall endeavor not to merit their disapproval by any act inconsistent with the ideal they have formed of me.”–Teddy Roosevelt
And thank you, Sir, for your inspiring and uplifting message!
During the last 10 years of my 3 decades in higher education publishing sales, particularly in the lee of digitization of content, the end of August and beginning of September represented the peak of demand for the service expected of my sales commitment, largely, helping late hire professors, often adjuncts, providing support to course coordinators and trouble shooting all manner of technical requests, in essence, onboarding while serving as the bottom line arm of technical support.
This meant that I often worked several hours on Labor Day.
Now that I am 4 years distant from that world, my late Augusts and early Septembers are devoid of those kinds of stressors.
And while I now live without a comfortable salary, bonuses, benefits and vacation, I choose when I work and who I work for, and have found my true vocation.
I no longer have paid holidays, nor paid vacations or ‘weekends’. As a small business owner, like so many others, weighed down by the crushing burden of municipal, state and federal taxes, I am lucky to have a little bit left over after all of that and living expenses have been paid, to go out for a meal every once in awhile.
There have been many holidays when I work to earn needed income.
Over the past couple days, I have completed work for a couple of clients that included trimming trees and bushes, and generally beautifying their properties. These customers appreciate my work in ways that goes beyond a simple economic transaction, and I am feel good about and am proud of my efforts and their results.
Today I have planned to do some interior work in my home, painting the downstairs trim and stairwell. As the day, turned out, I have a couple free hours this afternoon and just called a client who I had committed to working for this coming Thursday.
Instead, I will be completing a job for her today.
A few weeks back, noticing a home with a tangle of bittersweet on the facade of the house, I knocked on her door and asked, “Would you need any help cleaning up the front of your house?”
“Yes, I absolutely need help.”
While I had not expected it, when finishing most of the work last week, she asked me not only to fill in one open space in front of her house, but also to mulch the area. I suggested that a hydrangea hidden behind some bushes be moved.
She suggested that she could buy some plants from me, and I told her not worry about, grateful for her having hired me.
It costs me nothing other than a few minutes to dig up some daisies, brown eyed Susans, peonies and astilbe to transplant for a client.
In the middle of the night, unable to get a good night’s sleep, I turned to my copy of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The White Guard, a war novel set at the end of World War I and the onset of the Bolshevik revolution in Kiev and Sebastopol and was struck by the following passage describing an admittedly not at all sympathetic character:
“And now the dawn of December 14th 1918, found Kozyr a colonel in Petlyrura’s army and no one on earth (least of all Kozyr himself) could have said how it had happened. It had come about because war was Kozyr’s true vocation and his years of teaching school had been nothing more than a protracted and serious mistake.”
Bulgakov’s analogy follows:
“This, of course, is something that happens more often than not in life. A man may be engaged in some occupation for twenty whole years, such as studying Roman law, and then in the twenty-first year it suddenly transpires that Roman law is a complete waste of time, that he not only doesn’t understand it dislikes it too, but that he is really a born gardener and has an unquenchable love of flowers. This is presumably the result of some imperfection in our social system, which seems to ensure that people frequently only find their proper metier towards the end of their lives.”
That analogy has me pinned to a T.
Happy Labor Day! Am off to painting and gardening!
OK you started it LOL Higher education is such a fraud on the masses it should outlawed. Tell a young adult he must go to 4 -8 years of mindless study of Bull$h1t saddling him with $250,000.00 debt so he can become a Doctor who will follow Faucci ruling to make the elderly die alone. But do it for the $$$$$. So many have sent their prize to College to find they never returned is as bad as war at least if they went to war they fought for something they LOVED. This Minnesota kid is the perfect example filled with HATE he acts what a horrible fasaad put upon us. Now the colleges pay their football players millions to play a game while tossing out their mind. CRAZY WORLD we live or like OZZY the phony Christian CRAZY TRAIN. I know that I dont know where he is in death but he said God was his leader never to mention Jesus. This is nothing against your post just thoughts rolling around in the old grey matter. God Bless.
Wow. What a nasty response and attempt to gaslight.
Beyond that, I will not further dignify you with a response.
Enjoy your Labor Day, articman, and have a wonderful life.
Thank You Sundance.
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”
Facts don’t care about your feelings.
You better put aside your feelings if you speak the truth.
or to put it more actively: Speak the truth regardless of the slings and arrows aimed at you.
Supposed quote of William Wallace of Scotland, “Every man dies, not every man really lives.”
Wisely choose what you labor and suffer for, for suffer you will.
2 Thessalonians 3:6-12
“But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly among you; nor did we eat anyone’s bread free of charge, but worked with labor and toil night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us.
For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies.
Now those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.”
Well said. Good passage to post.
Happy Labor Day.
There’s something about the word “labor” in Labor Day that I now find suspect. It’s not the work aspect. It’s the question of what, exactly, is meant by “labor,” and what are we celebrating?
Similar thoughts have crossed my mind, yet when Sundance posts his celebration of real work of any kind, and the honesty of most working people I set aside the question.
There are more of us than there are of them…Our POV prevails.
Many years ago I took my three children to downtown Indianapolis to take part in the Labor Day festivities and to watch the parade. That was my “naive period,” so I was expecting a red, white and blue American Exceptionalism experience.
Of course I was wrong. The Communist Left have taken the values of honest hard work, such as described by Sundance in this post, and twisted them into Socialized Labor. So typical of them.
The Communist Left in America takes everything that is good and decent about our country and twists it into something sick and detestable. To quote a Batman movie, they set the world on fire just to watch it burn. That’s who they are.
The good news is that, on the ride home, we made the whole experience a teachable moment and had a great talk. Those three young children grew up to be intelligent, hard working Christian conservative adults who make my wife and I proud every single day.
Bruce: Good story. Thanks.
Bless you Sundance and thank you!
This is definitely a sad Labor Day for me as it is the first one that I am no longer employed. I have been employed since my teenage years working any job I could to save money to get “off the haystack” as we used to say. Worked my way whether babysitting for dairy farmers, scrubbing toilets during college years, asbestos removal odd jobs, substitute teaching, and then on to a lucrative post-college career in accounting/finance then as a six sigma project manager.
After working 23 years for my global Swiss company (which I loved doing), they terminated me this past June but not before I had to train my less qualified India replacement in Bangalore. Ugh.
My sincerest wishes for a Happy Labor Day to all Treepers that need this day off!
Again this phony college garbage failed yet another. Still have school loan debt? I see 2 alarming words Global and Six Sigma both from the Devils mark coming very soon. Go find something you enjoy and turn it into a business so sorry for your learning curve. Clinton did this to several major Cities in the 90 thru NAFTA he also allowed private companies off the hook for any pension $ owed to their workers. Not living in make believe.
This is so sad and should not be happening in America. A pox on the usurpers coming to our country and taking jobs of Americans.
Thank you Articman and Joan for the kind words. Yes, it sucks being unemployed especially because I’m shy of retirement age by a few years. But I was smart in working my way through college and not going into debt. And the aerospace companies, General Electric, and Swiss Re paid for my masters degree and PhD program — not incurring any educational debt has been a key strategy.
I also chose to pay off my mortgage early rather than purchasing expensive interior design upgrades (which I really, REALLY wanted). I have learned to do many DIY projects and have saved incredible amounts of money doing the work myself.
In all, I have been truly blessed in all the opportunities. However, if someone inquires whether hopping back into the “rat race” is something I want, it’s a hard pass. I love your idea of finding something I enjoy and pursuing that.
Live quietly, mind your own business and work with your hands. 1 Thessalonians 4:11.
God bless you Sundance for these powerful words of encouragement amidst the madness of life. Messages like this are what makes the tree house so unique from all other podcast and info sights-your personal vision is reality and objective reality are aligned with truth, justice, and love-in other words with God. I love and respect you Sundance and yes this entire tree house of deplorables/patriots/idealist.
I am a chiropractic laborer who has worked with my hands for over 41 years so I respect the beauty and power of physical and intellectual work. Have a glorious Labor Day all!
Thank you, Sundance. That was truly beautiful. I am going to share it with friends. Happy Labor Day, and thanks for all you do!!!
The US Constitution was built around English freedom loving radical thinkers, eg. Tom Paine, then opposed by the very same tyrannical forces that are currently enslaving the English with taxation and debt/replacing the English with migrants, and creating political prisoners. The US electorate has now rejected similar efforts of replacement and political Jan 6th imprisonment by very similar globalist forces that the English face. This has now got to the point where the UK Govt. has stated that illegal migrants rights are superior/outweigh Natural born Enlish rights. Seemingly President Donald Trump is now the best hope of salvation for the English people.
Outstanding!
Happy Labor Day Sundance and all involved in this wonderful adventure.
Disiderata has been framed and on my walls for over 50 years…good to see others appreciate it.
Thank you for the insight, encouragement and optimistic outlook we read everyday.
God is good everyday, best to stay on His side.
Stay well.
My grandmother told us stories about the celebration of Labor Day in her hometown of Chicago in 1900. Her father worked 6 days a week, Sundays off for church and family. Labor Day (Monday) was the only time he had 2 days off together. Her family attended a picnic and parade, sponsored by the up and coming Labor Union. Labor Day was a Labor Union event.
What I have NEVER liked about Labor Day is that it pretty much got transformed into “Celebrate Labor UNIONS Day”.
The celebration of hard honest labor is good and necessary.
But if we are going to celebrate Labor Unions, how about a Federal Holiday to celebrate Private Sector Capitalism as well?
Thank you to my Brother Union Members who went before me and without whom there would be no middle class in America. As Union membership has been destroyed so is the middle class. When they shipped middle class jobs overseas and flooded us with imported labor we all suffer. Thanks Nixon for “opening” China and Klinton for selling us out.
If you choose to berate me please be thoughtful about it.
This makes me think about the most awesome story Sundance ever told which sticks with me now and will probably forever…..the one about american ingenuity and dirty fingernails.
I love this photo of all the crying liberals. And I also love the pic of Pres. Trump doing good for the people with a smile on his face. Perfection.
SD thanks. Never been called a scruffneck before. My old perch here will now be referred to as scruffneck alley. Got a nice ring to it. 😎💪🏼
And thank you, Sundance.
Last night my cousin and I shared in a moment traveling down memory lane. Because we both lived at the ocean, everyone from the cities would come to the beach to celebrate the Labor Day weekend. She and I giggled about the fact that our moms would put us to work cleaning everything, including the dog slobber on the sliding glass doors. Labor Day was not a vacation for us…cooking, preparing and cleaning for all the guests!!!!
Of course, all had a great time and no one even noticed that the slobber on the doors had been cleaned. Stories were told; we learned of many family and friends’ past history…the good and the bad stories…ha-ha.
The young ones ran and played to exhaustion, the teenage boys would ride the family horse to the state park in an attempt to meet girls camping with their family, the adults filled themselves with marvelous food esp. the seafood the ocean had given us. Everyone was ready to return home to work, the kids ready to start school and our moms with our help now had to clean it all up and ready ourselves for the fall harvest.
Good times, what happened to this kind of family and friends get together???? Thought I would share some memories to my treehouse friends.
Oh yes, the young men reported that a horse catches more girls attention then the cars the other guys drove through the park!!
Thank you Sundance for your encouraging words always eloquently expressed from the heart. As I head out the door to my part-time job today I pray, as I know I represent Jesus Christ. I serve families who are purchasing gifts and clothing for their own children and children about to be born. Most of my customers are from other countries and many do not speak English. I am the same age as President Trump and a fellow New Yorker from Queens so interacting with many cultures is not foreign to me. Every day is a challenge, but I am reminded ” . . for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and work for His good pleasure.” I work and serve with intent of purpose with a grateful heart. Happy Labor Day!
He should get a purple Heart.
I love you & respect you, MAGA Brother!!
Thank you for sharing your information, analysis, fellowship and faith.
Many blessings to you!
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Celebrated with my 13 yr old daughter running some class II/III on the upper Rogue River. Caught some fish ,too.
The only thing better than being ON the river, is getting home putting on dry clothes and settling in, totally exhausted.
Happy Labor Day!
This retired old lady put the labor in Labor Day by digging out a bed choked by violets and wildly overgrown iris.
Hard garden work always makes me feel great afterwards…
Sister, I am aware that you are also in the ‘Bay State’, if you ever get tired and need help, please look me up.
Since I am unmasked here on the Treehouse, it should not be too hard to find me online.
My rates are reasonable, and I will make the drive to help, particularly as a fellow Treeper.
Chris Hyde
Dude,
you are something else. you are the embodiment of fellowship. you are remarkable in your message. God bless you and yours.
All people need to remember this little nugget: “I have never been hired by a broke man/woman.” That says it all and why wealth is vital to all our futures.
Over the years,I’ve worked hard, and been paid for a job well done. I’ve also worked hard, done the job well and received nothing more than a hand shake in payment. I don’t remember what i spent the money on, I do remember each and every handshake.