Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day
by Annie Tornabene



Labor Day, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers in other words, we the people. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers (the average American) have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

In 1882 it began being celebrated and became a national holiday in 1884. The form that the observance and celebration of Labor Day should take were outlined in the first proposal of the holiday — a street parade to exhibit to the public "the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. We the people are a vital force of labor adding to the highest standard of living and the greatest production that is realized in our economic and political lives. We are a light to the rest of the world.

So today we celebrate you! Happy Labor Day! Have you made plans for having fun today? Are you on course to live your best life now? Celebrate today as your day for the achievements that you have accomplished. Celebrate today for the freedom from depression. You have struggled... you have labored day after day in your struggle to break from depression.

Seek the light from within you to guide you. Enjoy the celebration of your best life now. You can do it one step at a time! Together we can make a difference in understanding depression and celebrating our best life now!

Hope

Hope
by Annie Tornabene















In each one's life a little pain and grief must fall. It's part of being alive. Sometimes pain and grief feel like the rainforest's rains. We wonder if it will ever end. Crushing poverty, rampant drug and alcohol use, increasing economic conditions, diseases, and chronic racial and relationship tensions have largely caused a problem for many. No matter what circumstances you are facing as long as you have hope, you are going to make it. According to Martin Luther, "Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."

Hope is that glimmer of light in a room full of darkness. Hope is that victorious song of the sparrow that sings through the silence of defeat. Hope is that spark that ignites the flame in a pile of burning ashes. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings, said William Shakespeare. Hope is that blade of grass piercing through the snow to let you know that new life is there. Hope dispels all negative thoughts.

When I was suffering from the fog of depression, I did a painting of a dark night with the moon shining through. Because I knew as long as I could see the light, I could face tomorrow. You can too. I have enough hope for both of us until you have courage to realize you have hope.

If you are going through a tough time, know that hope is there with you. It may be a little spark, all it needs is a little fanning and it will rise up to help you seize the moment. It will help you make it. Together we can make a difference. Hope makes a difference.

Seize The Day

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. ~ Randy Pausch

We sometimes think what would we say to someone if we knew it was our last chance to speak to them. Rarely do we get such a change to hear such profound thoughts.

When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave - "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" - wasn't about dying. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment because "time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think". It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.

Live your life to the fullest. Live every moment. Sieze the day while you can!

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