Happy labor day everybody. Here's something from Martin Luther King:
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It's hard to know what to add to that. I just found it, early this morning.
I've spent my entire adult life believing that we shall overcome.
I never lost faith. It's been hard at times.
We shall overcome. We will take away the meanness, and the bigotry. We will dismantle it. We will turn it into small sadnesses. And with any kind of luck, we will be able to work the broken mean people back into a good society.
And if not, at least we will not go about trying to hurt them. They are already hurt enough.
We shall overcome, Kossacks. We've got to, and we've got to do it with kindness, and decency. We've got to side-step the traps that the overly screwed up humans set for us.
I gotta say here, this early morning of Labor Day, that I have never in my entire life felt before like I was an accepted part of such a large group of people who cared about the same stuff I do, in so many of the same ways.
I get up every morning and am happy because there are Kossacks.
Kossacks who work, because that's what we do; we work. We work in all sorts of amazing and varied ways. We're just incredible, as a group of workers.
I get to thinking; it's not about trying to win or lose anything, in the long run. More about reinventing work. And that's what I see here, to a great extent. We're reinventing work, in wonderful ways.
I'll stop off this early morning post saying that; not only can we do it, but that we are doing it. Reinventing work. Making it good, and sensible, and happy, and sociable, and kind.
You folks have given me hope. The best I hope to do with the rest of my life is to give it back to you, and your brethren.
Again,
Happy Labor Day, Kossacks!