Today I will honour the plumbers and the architects, the nurses and the dressmakers and the surgeons and the stay-at-home moms. Today I will honour the teachers and the artists, the office administrators and mail-people, the carpenters and the landscapers, the soldiers and the street-cleaners, the shelf-stockers, the baristas and bartenders, the construction workers, the telemarketers, the theatre technicians, the inventors, the CEOs, the project managers, the designers, the electricians, the packaging technicians, the athletes and the advertising copywriters and the machinists and the customer service representatives. Today I will honour everyone who has done whatever they could to help the world in its becoming, but no, I will not wear a poppy.