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A Nice White Principal without Principles

June 9, 2019June 10, 2019 Jeeni

Twenty years you’ve dedicated your career to them, the kids in Southeast. What a hero you are, being there for […]

A Human's Words, An Advocate's Words, Poetry by Jeeni
Hawk's Tree in Tecolote canyon

Nobody’s Right, If Everybody’s Wrong

June 6, 2019June 10, 2019 Jeeni

A murder of crows caw out of key (or so it seems to me) from their perches on the Jacaranda […]

A Human's Words, Poetry by Jeeni crows, hawks, predators, scavengers

The Little Girl in the Lime-Green Jumper

January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 Jeeni

A little girl, in a bright, lime-green jumper, stole the show tonight. Her mama was playing the jarana and singing […]

A Human's Words children, dancing, Mexicam music, Mexican Folk Dancing, music, son jarocho

Just Three Doors Down

November 14, 2018December 14, 2018 Jeeni

We live just three doors down from the sea of inhumanity, always close to the possibility that we are sixty […]

A Human's Words, Poetry by Jeeni homelessness

The Hearing

September 29, 2018September 29, 2018 Jeeni

By Jeeni CriscenzoSept. 28, 2018 I watched him, like an elk exposed on the plains, spotting a lion in the grass, hair standing at […]

A Woman's Words, Poetry by Jeeni Me Too, predator, rape

The Stroke of His Pen

September 19, 2018October 3, 2018 Jeeni

I’m too bone weary to keep doing this work over and over again, when it’s so easily undone by a […]

An Activist's Words, Poetry by Jeeni Executive order, presidenti's signature, Trump's signature
The tents in texas desert with immigrant children who have been torn from their parents are being held.

Sea of Beige

June 23, 2018September 5, 2019 Jeeni

by Jeeni Criscenzo June 2018 When his red t-shirt fades, in the desert sun, to blend into this sea of […]

An Activist's Words, Poetry by Jeeni child detention centers, immigrant children

Homeless families defined out of existence and assistance.

May 24, 2018May 24, 2018 Jeeni

In his commentary in the UT 1 last Sunday, John Wilkens offered a creative analogy to the annual homeless Point-in-Time Count […]

An Advocate's Words, Just my opinion, More or Less: Jeeni's blog homeless families, homeless students, homelessness, Point in Time Count, San Diego County

Fault Line Park

August 16, 2017September 25, 2019 Jeeni

Sitting here talking philosophically, about the fin of humanity, in the throes of a heat wave, shaded by the Pinnacles of Fault Line Park. One has to ask, does […]

A Human's Words death, Fault Line park, meaning of life, San Diego

Empathy

June 28, 2017November 16, 2017 Jeeni

Spinning her web, a wisp, a hair, a thread, flings from her matted head and I watch helplessly as her […]

An Advocate's Words homeless women

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