Tuesday is ‘Take Your Teddy Bear To Work Day’

By Beth Sinden

Stop the presses! Tues­day, Oct. 11 is “Take Your Teddy Bear To Work Day”.

At this time of dark prob­lems roil­ing over us, I believe that it’s high time for this day of celebration.

One web­site sug­gested that if the day comes on a Sat­ur­day, just cud­dle up with your teddy bear in your jam­mies all day. That sounds great to me. I could use a day (or 10) in bed with a book and a teddy bear.

Some­times I would like to take off my edi­to­r­ial assis­tant hat, my grandma and mom hats, my wife hat, my seri­ous, painfully aging hat, my actor’s hat, my duti­ful daughter’s hat and just put on a cute lit­tle bon­net for eat­ing warm jello while lay­ing in a hammock.

There is a time for seri­ous­ness in life. There’s noth­ing new there; and I can do that. But there is also a time to be silly, to rest, to let some­one else answer the hard ques­tions. There’s a time to carry your well-loved teddy bear around with you, feed it cook­ies and tea and let it com­fort you. I can do all that too. Yeah, I’m really look­ing for­ward to “Take Your Teddy Bear To Work Day” next Tuesday.

My teddy’s name is Fred­er­ick, named after a char­ac­ter in a play. He was com­pas­sion­ate, kind, funny and tried to help an unfor­tu­nate stranger. Fred­er­ick is like that too, with­out say­ing a word. He rode in the car with me for so long he’s a dif­fer­ent color on one side from a sun­burn. He also shares the same name as a favorite uncle.

Frederick’s home has been in my closet for a cou­ple years, since mov­ing back to Galion. When I get home tonight I will res­cue him from that closet. I may bun­dle us up and sit on the front porch swing in the dark and tell him about my day. He won’t say much, but he’s a good listener.

Posted by Beth Sinden on Oct 10 2011. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.