President’s Day?

Today is “President’s Day” in the U.S. … a holiday I’ve always been loathe to “celebrate”. It’s not a “holiday” holiday, just a federal “no mail or banks” sort of day. You know, the things that are federal or nearly so, like schools of all sorts. 😉

Long we celebrated Washington’s birthday on Feb. 22 and I still set that day aside in my mind as his day, to remember specially who he was, not that it is important. It’s that he was a great man in the history of the U.S. and I refuse to dish his birthday into a “catch all” “President’s Day”. It’s a precise thing to recall struggles and victory via a leader, and that is Washington. Thus, his birthday ‘on the twenty-second of February’ each year is remembered, for what he represents, the past of a glorious experiment.

So there is no mail being delivered today, via the post office, it’ll come tomorrow, if nothing odd happens before then. The banks being closed affects me not. Shops aren’t closed. This is a big “sale” day for department stores! Not that I’m going to go shopping, I am not, maybe just groceries.

What is “President’s Day” supposed to signify then? It’s part of a behemoth federal something-or-other. An ethereal nod towards “our great past presidents” which is effectual towards nothing at all, except for a day to stay home for federal employees (not just them, but I use them as the big example.)

I think of this from a religious viewpoint, and I know that it’s my desire to only recall that “so and so was born on such and such date, and see what he did for this land we live in.” Otherly-wise an “All Out Presidents Day” smacks of the federal religion that exists but is usually pooh-poohed as if it doesn’t exist. I’m firmly in favor of no dichotomy in life … that life is religious, all things are either true religion or false religion, not that every little thing has God in it, or that there is no gray-area at all … this is a general stance of everything devised governmentally is a religion, and is it true and of God, or is it false and of itself?

Many things have come and gone since the inception of this Country. “Under God” is one of them. Hail to HIM! [not to ‘the chief’]