Journal of a Sabbatical

September 7, 1998

labor day

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Institute for Labor Studies and Research

Copyright © 1998, Janet I. Egan

	Goose Drinking Water "hearts starve as well as bodies"	I feel much better today. Whatever it was must have been one of those 24-hour bugs. We didn't make it Bread and Roses. We celebrated Labor Day browsing at the Brown Bookstore and paying a quick visit to the cove.
BTW, the phrase "Bread and Roses" comes from the title of a poem written by James Oppenheim in 1912 about the Lawrence textile strike. Ten thousand woman and children marched against brutal working conditions, long hours and insufficient wages.		Oyster Shells     Bread
"touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses"	Swan Feather     Roses