A full-time paycheck should cover:
- Rent without panic
- Groceries without math
- A doctor without a GoFundMe
We aren't asking for yachts.
We're asking for basics to feel basic again.
Iโm sorry, but mocktails should be $4. You poured fruit juice, soda, and some garnish into a glass. There is absolutely no reason that should cost the same as a cocktail.
If you were young in 2001, or werenโt even born yet, it can be hard to imagine what 9/11 felt like. The shock of that beautiful, cloudless morning. The heartbreak of the families whose loved ones were taken with such swiftness and cruelty. The realization that the forces of malevolence and violence were closer, and the future less certain, than we knew.
But in the days that followed, we felt something else, too. Pride in the rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, and the passengers who had stormed the cockpit. Admiration for the men and women who left behind lives of comfort to serve their country. A deep resolve that nothing would break the will of a truly United States of America.
Today Michelle and I are remembering those we lost that day, and those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed. We pray for their families. And we hope Americans everywhere remember the true lesson of 9/11: that we can survive even our darkest days as long as we move forward as one nation and one people.
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasnโt the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
never take being mobile for granted. pick up some weights, ride your bike, take a walk, go for a run. be kind to your body by taking care of it while you can.