Finding Mental Peace
We arrive at Labor Day Weekend as people make plans with family and friends hoping the weather cooperates. Enjoy your time whether it's simply being at home and relaxing alone or with friends, away on a final summer destination, at a concert, or wherever. Burning Man Festival 2017
Many people can't work due to external and internal influences making Labor Day just another day. Some people can't survive without achieving something each day, while others are emotionally burned out preferring to do nothing.
I heard a sad story yesterday. There was a man named Kevin, in his 60's, who used to sit on this old wooden bench in front of the grocery store across the street. He generally wore a white T-shirt and jeans, could be seen smoking a cigarette, the condition of the bench mirroring his depression, yet he would always say hello to me. Yesterday, I found out he was a drinker who killed himself due to depression. He owned his home around the corner, which is for sale. His wife died several years ago which may have contributed to his depression - the feeling of having nothing to live for and no direction. Maybe now he has found mental peace.
For many in Texas this Labor Day turned into a surreal disaster from which they may never fully recover but will hopefully find some degree of mental peace. Images after Harvey look a lot like the bench above.
Years ago people bought summer homes in the countryside or by the shore - returning to city life on Labor Day. Today these houses have been remodeled becoming year-round homes to return to as time perhaps - a haven for souls to get away to relax and heal/create. All people want and need is to find mental peace.
Many enjoying Labor Day Weekend with a bottle of wine. A sip of history ... Wine has been produced for thousands of years. The earliest known traces of wine are from China (c. 7000 BC) and Iran (c. 5000 BC). The earliest known winery is the 6,100-year-old Areni-1 winery in Armenia. Wine reached the Balkans by 4500 BC and was consumed and celebrated in ancient Greece, Thrace and Rome. Throughout history, wine has been consumed for its intoxicating effects. Wine has long played an important role in religion. Red wine was associated with blood by the ancient Egyptians and was used by both the Greek cult of Dionysus and the Romans in their Bacchanalia; Judaism also incorporates it in the Kiddush and Christianity in the Eucharist. Read more
Europe's Winemakers Face Shrinking Harvest Due to Extreme Weather NBC - September 1, 2017
Well-Aged: Oldest Traces of Italian Wine Discovered in Sicilian Cave Smithsonian - September 1, 2017
