This is one of those quirky holidays that everyone doesn’t have off – but everyone should have off.
Okay. It doesn’t rise to quite the level of Christmas, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, and those fabulous summer-bracketers: Memorial Day and Labor Day.
And, as a local, it’s hard to beat Patriot’s Day – and Presidents’ Day doesn’t.
But it pretty much trumps Columbus Day and – sorry about that, revelers – New Year’s.
Still, it’s definitely a day we should observe, if only so we can all spend a couple of minutes of it reflecting on our imperfect yet better than most form of government. (Although the parliamentary/prime minister set-up definitely has a number of excellent aspects to it, most notably the occasional need to form coalitions and maybe even compromise.)
The presidency, after all, is one tough-cookie of a job, especially in these fractious times. So while we’ve probably had more who were bad or indifferent than we’ve had who were good-to-great, they deserve a day of their own. Plus it comes in the middle of winter, when we are all completely deserving of a day off – especially this year, for those of us in New England who just had to shovel out from under a big whomping snowstorm.
I will observe the day by consuming the better part of a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Fro-Yo which, for the day, I will personally rebrand as “George Washington Cherry Tree.”
Whether you’re off or on, enjoy the day.
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