Labor Day

I hope this is a good Labor Day holiday for you.  But Covid does say something about our life each day.  Schools have been back in session with some uneven responses to Coronavirus.  Labor Day used to be the end of summer when I was school age.  Then school began.  Had school started in the third week of August in NYC we would have melted brains in the non-air conditioned classrooms.  I guess kids take heat better today, or maybe not.  Many a parent says that friendships made in the school are very important and so they want in class school.  Oh?  Well, let me ask these same parents, how many of those 'friendships" that you thought so important, do you bother to call or email anytime this year, now eight months into it?  If they were important to your growing up, when did they lose their importance?  I know the post office is slow, but eventually, they do deliver a stamped, written letter.  If this is a holiday, why not contact one of those important friends of your growing up and say thank you?  Come to think of it are any of them contacting you?  Those are the people that truly know us, before we reinvented ourselves to become spouses, parents, workers and even monks.