ChicagoDreamer
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ChicagoDreamer
@chicagomaima
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ❤️ Retired children's attorney.




The human body was not meant to endure 2 trump terms in one lifetime



A restaurant where there are no prices on the menu. Only humanity. ❤️ In 2011, Jon Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea Bon Jovi opened an unusual restaurant in New Jersey. There are no fixed prices on the menu there. Those who can afford to pay leave a donation. Those who have no money can help instead: wash dishes, set tables, fold napkins, or work in the kitchen. No shame. No humiliation. No painful questions. One evening, a woman sat at a table struggling to hold back tears. Not because she was hurting — but because she had forgotten what it felt like to be treated with dignity. They served her a real dinner: hot soup, fresh vegetables, dessert on a normal plate. And in that moment, she realized: they did not pity her. They respected her. That is the heart of JBJ Soul Kitchen. It is not just a place that feeds hungry people. It is a place that gives people back the feeling that they matter. There are no separate rooms for the “poor” and the “rich.” No labels. No looking down on others. Only a table, a meal, and a simple reminder: you still matter. you still belong in this world. Over the years, the restaurant has served more than 200,000 meals. Even during the pandemic, the team kept feeding people, and Jon Bon Jovi himself helped wash dishes. People know him as a rock star who filled stadiums. But perhaps one of his most important songs is not played on stage. It is heard in a quiet kitchen, where a hungry person is given not only food — but dignity. ❤️

.@DCrittenden1 and @davidfrum's daughter Miranda–a former Firing Line staff member–died suddenly in 2024. In her new book, Crittenden grapples with her grief and remembers the daughter she lost. "She was very like her father. She was brilliant...One of her friends said that he had never met in real life a person who was so casually witty."



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