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Labor Day 2022
Labor Day comes as late in the calendar as it can this year. Fall will be here in 15 days.
Labor Day and the run up to fall is a bittersweet time. Fading soon into memory go dreams both fulfilled and dashed for your favorite baseball team, your family vacation, your time with the grandkids or grandparents. Falling leaves, coming soon, will signal the great harvest feasts, the approach of winter, and acknowledgement we are in the afternoon of yet another of our allotted annual treks around the sun.
Labor Day also is the harbinger of football and school bells. The time when farmers stop praying for rain to grow their crops and start praying for dry so they can harvest those crops. Soon, the first crisp wisps of cool in the early morning light, the first sightings of bird flights winging south. For now, for football teams and schoolchildren, the future beckons.
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This time of transitions seems to come sooner each passing year, an annual reminder there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.
Pour wine. Toast triumphs and lifetime memories you created, move past regrets. This is the time to enjoy that last summer backyard barbecue, the swim party or day on the lake, the patio soiree where shorts can still be the de rigueur dress of the day.
There is transition in wine, too. Like flowers of the field, summer wines grace a season and are gone.
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