Seasons and their Reasons

It occurs to me that for most holidays, we always end up hearing a lot about how important it is to remember WHY the holiday exists. We’ve got multiple holidays now where we’re supposed to meditate on Freedom and The Troops, and don’t get me started on the cottage industry that surrounds Christmas with all manner of evangelical zeal nowadays…but how much do we ever hear about “the true meaning of Labor Day”? So maybe take a few minutes today to bone up on the life of Samuel Gompers, a guy who it seems to me maybe should be as well remembered as, say, Henry Ford.