remember:
healing is not immediate.
healing is not linear.
healing is HARD.
give yourself grace, even if your process is taking longer than you expect.
"how are we gonna pay for universal health care?"
We already pay for it. Just use the $10,000 a year we spend on premiums + copays and cut out health care companies' $40 billion in annual profits.
Put our money toward toward health care, not a health insurance exec's 3rd yacht.
I will never accept a system that lets billionaires add $1,620,000,000,000 to their wealth in 13 months but doesn’t raise the $7.25 minimum wage for 12 years.
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country."
FDR said that 88 years ago. And we're still bending over backward to subsidize millionaires and billionaires to pay $10/hour with no benefits.
bloom in your own way, at your own pace. don’t compete with anybody else’s timetable. don’t imitate someone else’s process. what is meant for you won’t pass you by.
Restaurant workers had a min wage of $2.13 plus tips in 1991.
Restaurant workers have a min wage of $2.13 plus tips today.
In 1991, average rent was $600 a month. Now it's $1,600.
I don't know, but this might be part of the explanation for why restaurants can't find workers.
we don’t seek nuance because we say we don’t have time to. but we do have time. how we choose to use the time we do have is reflected in how we show up for ourselves and each other, and the quality of our interactions.
we are too focused on making a point and proving someone else wrong rather than having healthy conversations that allow us to learn how to find love in the middle of our chaos.