more than yesterday, less than tomorrow

When the minimum wage paid employee at Meijer tells you “have a nice day!”, after bagging what must’ve been hundreds of groceries in only a couple hours, do you think they really mean it? Or when you, the customer, mumbles back “you too”... Will it be imperative to your ability to function throughout the day if the clerk does or does not have a “nice day”. It is safe to assume the answer is no. Do not let this be confused with an argument against altering the basic humane treatment of service employees, but a test to the meaning of words and their genuineness. Most socially aware people can understand that the employee does so because they have some sort of obligation to treat all customers with kindness, as anyone who has ever worked in a job revolving around customer service is aware of. It is simply a matter of unsaid yet enforced social courtesy and obligation. Now let’s begin again at where we started. Except you are the employee this time, instead of the customer. Also, you h

i would just like to say that i hope everyone is considering all people in their community during this strange situation we're living in right now. it is most important to practice compassion and empathy when our normalcies are stripped away like this. ---------------------------------- Woolf's inherent purpose is not simply to state the observed and short-lived activities of a moth, but rather to present a highly saturated and curated "pure bead of life", and its counter: death. The moth flies back and forth in front of the window without purpose. Should the moth "choose" to fly outwards into the city, it would be able to open itself up to a never ending expanse of earth for exploration. When Woolf presents her story of the moth, she attributes blatant human characteristics while making it a mindless or bothersome insect. Woolf establishes its humanity, noting "his zest in enjoying his meager opportunities to the full", while in tandem writing

News In Brief WOODBRIDGE, NJ-- Overwhelmed and exhausted, 42 year old Build-A-Bear Workshop store manager Karla Donnell quickly rushes out of the Woodbridge Center Shopping Mall employee entrance to take a smoke break after having to ask several pre-teen aged girls to stop filming TikTok videos in her store. After arguing with the middle schoolers back and forth, while they actively ignored her in favor of practicing their "Renegade" dance remix for the camera of an iPhone 11 Pro Max, she finally got them to leave once she threatened to have them banned from the mall for breaking the no filming policy. Taking a drag from her cigarette, Karla dazedly explains the issue. "This is the 3rd time this week I've had to threaten these kids to get them to stop filming TikToks here.. and it's only Tuesday. Do these kids even have school? Or parents?" This isn't a Build-A-Bear central problem as well, almost every store in the Woodbridge Center has reported being