What does it mean to dream? What is your dream? What would it feel like if you woke up and your dream came true? All lighthearted questions, but they all pulled something out of me. Last week, I went to a Dreamers Event, and it was amazing to just be present and sit still. Putting…
Author: Chardaé Jones
Writer. Tech Junkie. Music Junkie. Creative. Dreamer. Artistic.
We Are All Exhausted
We are all exhausted right now, but we show up with as much as we can every day. One hundred percent looks different to the same person each day, and we just do our best and try again tomorrow. Times in this political climate (which some of us predicted if we got there) are hard…
Radical Isn’t What You Think It Is
Radical has a negative connotation to it nowadays, but it’s not radical to want equal rights, believe that my tax money should ensure me at the very least, clean air, water, access to healthy food, adequate housing, and a bridge that won’t collapse while I’m on it. Not one working or retired person should starve…
Capitalism Killed the American Dream
Once upon a time, in an American neighborhood, you could buy a house, work through college to pay your tuition with zero student loan debt, and have a child without feeling as if you would never financially recover. The credit score wasn’t even created until 1989. It wasn’t until 1978 that federal student loans were…
The US Government: Scarier than Any Halloween
I’m afraid that we’re not going to successfully bully the billionaires with peaceful protesting and letters. They’re actively choosing to be morally corrupt. I don’t think they care about optics. Honestly, if you look back at how we all got the rights that are being dismantled, it was the Civil Rights Era. They protested, but…
Death by Documentation: Do You Want to See Change or Do you Want Credit?
Both can happen in tandem. A good example of why putting documentation before helping people is the April 29th tragedy where 2 people lost their lives and they 300k people in Allegheny County lost power. What was the tragedy? Lack of infrastructure and a lot of wind. The aftermath left a lot of people without…
Leaders Who Won’t Step Aside Are Holding Movements Back
Watching the new Red Lobster CEO excel at his job and also know how to accept feedback is amazing. As someone who voluntarily left corporate America and read that a lot of Gen Z and Millennials would rather work at a cash register than climb a corporate ladder, it doesn’t surprise me. Young people are…
America, The Great Disillusion
America has a gun problem but we would rather deport all of the people who weren’t born here. Most mass shootings happen by Americans but, statistics, science, this admin doesn’t care. 263 mass shootings have happened just this year. But the government wants us to look away because the right to bear arms, it’s in…
UnAmerican
ＵｎＡｍｅｒｉｃａｎ One day, future generations will look at all the things happening right now and question how everyone could be so naive. How we read in our history books about Germany and pretended to be so blind about history happening in the present day? How did we allow the government to get so far right…
Chasing Passion, Not Paychecks: My Journey Beyond the Grind
“Oh no! I didn’t get that job or opportunity.” Okay, but did you just quit after rejection? Did you just give up? Giving up is not an option for me. I hate capitalism. I would love to be in my “soft girl era,” but I grew up watching my mom hustle. She took us to…
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