What’s Killing Me
Steven Covey, author of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People talks about our “Emotional Bank Accounts”. Despite the fact that it’s weird to talk about banking in this context, I think the...
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Nijmie 101: Get to know me
Here are some snapshots from my organizing over the years in terms of some of the issues and campaigns that I’ve worked on, and the trajectory of my political orientation and theory of change....
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New Poems!
I’ve been in silent meditation retreat for the last week at Vallecitos in (New) Mexico getting My. Whole. Life. Together. In deep gratitude for this time. The practice and the nature ignited my...
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Movement-killing behaviors
Of special relevance within the context of movement-building organizations The author pictured with Larry Gibson, Keeper of the Mountains on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia with the Poverty Scholars...
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Healing our ancestors: a visualization
Healing our Ancestors: A Visualization Do you come from a lineage of people who led small, pinched lives because of oppression and trauma? And/or people whose own sense of freedom and joy was so...
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The Buddhist, the Jesus Freak and the Witch
The Buddhist, the Jesus Freak and the Witch The Buddhist says let everything go Attachment is the root of all suffering The Jesus Freak says suffering is noble And I am forgiven The witch says...
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But How Will We Pay For It?
We pay for it every day with our lives We pay for it in anxiety, sleeplessness and depression We’ll pay for it by taking back what was stolen from us We pay for it sitting in debtor’s prison We pay...
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Alive, Awake, Avenge Enthusiastic
“The only real revolutionary, people say, is a man who has nothing to lose” – MLK “I can’t sleep cause it’s a war zone in my head” – PTSD, G Herbo the first person i ever slept with dead my mother...
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Nijmie doing things
some stuff I’ve co-created in 2020 so far Where Do We Go From Here with the University of the Poor In Focus: NJ and DE Primaries and 2020 Presidential Election, Race and The Law, Poor People’s...
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The kitchen floor
The kitchen floor The workers who gutted the house didn’t touch the kitchen floor They pulled up every other one Except this Why? The handyman I thought would come Never did So it became our task...
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