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a child’s Labour Day: Right Livelihood –
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Britton Gildersleeve
Labour Day isn’t a Buddhist holiday. 🙂 Although it seems to me to embody something critical to Buddhist thought: respect for our daily work. ‘Right livelihood’ is a basic tenet of Buddhism: that you will harm no one with your work, that you will contribute to society, and that you will grow in awareness. So…
worker bees and labour unions
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Britton Gildersleeve
I am a worker bee. Never been a real ‘queen’ of anything (don’t tell my husband & sons — they might disagree). Even when I was a director, I did the trash jobs: paperwork, payroll, receipts and mileage and complaints and… 🙂 I’ve never really been ‘the boss,’ despite what some may think about teachers.…
Labour Day, workers, and my grandmother ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
I love Labour Day. I love the history of it, the idea that we honour our working class roots. That we at least still pay lip service to those of us who work (hard) for a living. This is about Labour Day. Or Labor Day, as those of us w/out a British spelling background spell…
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