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Your Land Is Their Land

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Your Land Is Their Land

We all gather to say thank you and celebrate an event that showed generosity from Indigenous peoples.

To this day the descendants of those people live among us or on reservations that we made for them.

When the Vikings invaded England they plundered and ruled over the Anglo Saxons.

Why is it some cultures invade and intermingle but others push them out?

Seriously this is a very concerning holiday to me, it is a day we should have First Nations prominently celebrated but instead we just eat with our families.

Heck on Cinco de Mayo we put up South of the Border decorations and every Mexican restaurant is filled with people

But

Where are the Native American restaurants? Where are those shops that you can buy their cultural items of prominence?

Lunar New Year we give out red envelopes 🧧 and see dragons dance in streets.

Why not Indigenous peoples ways more known or celebrated?

Is there a way to celebrate their culture?

Yes you should gather with friends and family but don’t forget those who cultivated maize, beans and squash. Some tribes even call them the ‘three sisters’.

Please think of them as you eat popcorn 🍿 at a movie, or chips at the Super Bowl, your famous chili and cornbread, or simply pumpkin pie.

Your land is was and should be honored as their land also.

-Jennie Nawrocki

Resources near Seattle:

https://eighthgeneration.com/

https://www.offthereztruck.com/

https://www.duwamishtribe.org/

National resources:

https://americanindian.si.edu/

Family

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cause the ups and downs

ease the pain

Build you up

Never be around

Always being there

Make decisions complex

Be only one choice

Ask no questions

Ask all the questions

Scream and yell

Whisper and silent

Talk about nothing

Hammer out the issues

Born with them

By your side as you go

They are your ties

Strong or weak

But they are family

And worth every minute

-Jennie Nawrocki

Boundaries

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To be loved

Is a gift

Of reciprocity

By earning respect

Both helping

Both supporting

Emotionally

Or physically

Without consciousness

Could be leader

Giving confidence

Strength by modeling

With speech and demeanor

Or with consciousness

a call, a visit, a note

Building smiles, laughter

And especially safety

Of your space, your boundaries

never being crossed

Without your permission

That is love

That is trust

That is respect

You gave

And received

Together

-Jennie Nawrocki

Choose Well

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Each day

The news

Brings information

Some bad

However the reaction

Your personal resilience

Determination

Brings hope

Effort into action

That understanding

Despite everything

Humanity will persevere

Because you focused

On the good will

Of the people

Choosing

Each other

Over the shellfish ego

That it is about

My future

Realizing instead

It is about

Our future

Our community

Together

Knowing good

Is inherently

The disposition

Of all of us

And even if

You see bad

Or have

Bad experiences

You personally

Decided

I will be better

I chose

With integrity

Never to be

The a**hole

But the one

Who despite everything

Chose well

-Jennie Nawrocki

Better Together

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Seriously did you ever

Find that sometimes

Just one ingredient

Can change

Or transform

An entire dish

Chocolate and peanut butter

Burger and cheese

Fries and ketchup

Coffee and sugar

Cinnamon and sugar

Salt and pepper

Toast and butter

Grapefruit and sugar

Rum and coke

Many of these items

Are good on their own

But it is

The combination

That makes them

Needed

So you may be the best

By yourself

But you are always better

As part of a team

So celebrate your

Team

By saying

Happy Valentine’s Day!

To Whom It May Concern

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Many moons ago I started writing letters to a band then they said stop so I did I stopped sending them to that band and just wrote myself daily and towards the end several emails to myself a day all about what has transpired in my life. Heck if something horrible happened I write what just happened? why did you do that?

Then my computer went dark, hacked by the neighbors. It was useless really to even think I could have a computer so I sold it. I haven’t been able to afford a new computer since.

So that December was really the end of my world as I new it. Everything and everyone changed around me and I felt that is truly when I started running on my hamster wheel ever since or as some even myself refer to it as the road to nowhere.

Why do I say that because time, space, family, friends and all the freedoms I had were gone and none of them have returned because well as I was told I was never coming back.

So when those around me that actually do take the time to write an email or call or even converse with me I wonder if this is the one that talks to me freely as though no one was listening again. Some say no one is listening or if they are listening no one cares.

I don’t know what is worse to have a conversation with someone and they don’t care and or are motivated to discredit you or just never speaking again.

So here I am almost exactly 6 years to the day I sold my computer and the end of my existence as I knew it still wondering what the heck is going on and why would someone do that?

One thing is we argue and scream at each other and have ever since about the horrible things I have done. I say I haven’t they say I have. It is a never ending argument. An argument that has left me behind.

The ironic thing is that some still ask where did you go why haven’t you called or written how have you not known about this. My reply still is well this blocked me years ago when this hacked my computer so I couldn’t even see my files.

Go home they say. The day I sold my computer was the last day I had a home it was my foundation to the life I once had. I never entered the home they built me, NEVER. Even now I am told of my new home they have built me that I am allowed a little room to occupy. The new normal they call it. I have yet to see it. I just hear about how I am told to go to it but I don’t know where it is or know it wouldn’t really feel like it is home once I get there.

My home was a place I had a say in where I went, who I would speak to and when. I could eat what I wanted, sleep when I wanted and buy what I wanted. I lived alone and haven’t lived with anybody since I moved out of my Greenwood apartment in 1999. Yes it has been that long.

In a different universe since then some say I was married and have had several children along with several cats and dogs and other animals. I have also been called an alien, a witch and the most hated living or dead human being on the planet among other things too. I have been named and termed so much I still write tweets saying remember me Jennie Nawrocki is still Jennie Nawrocki.

The truth is whether I live in that understanding or the common ground understanding I still live alone with my one cat named Sherman. I never had kids or a husband and my mom and my sister calls me on holidays and my birthday. That is basically it I get maybe a couple of more texts, emails or calls but mostly it is just my mom and my sister a few times a year if that. I do have this other person I message but when I mention the name to others or what I do for that person they don’t believe it. In addition, the last time I officially went to party was an office holiday party I had to work at 5 years ago. People talk about quarantine I feel I have been in quarantine since I moved away from Seattle, Washington, I now live in the Bronx, New York. Oh and in that different universe they tell me no I don’t, then I still ask them where do I live?

I talk like I live in different worlds because it feels like I live in different worlds. Unfortunately both seem living disasters right now.

What do I do where do I go? Some tell me go home still back to Washington and I say where my home or any semblance of it is gone and like I am told I can’t run or hide because she will always find me. So if that is the case then my future is not mine it is for she supposedly to determine. So again where is home, my sanctuary, my sense of place where I can gather my pieces of my personal puzzle and put some semblance of my dignity and my honor back together?

It is never going to happen Jennie Nawrocki you don’t deserve it, you deserve nothing.

So I have been asking how does one live their life or progress in any way if they deserve nothing?

Take care and much love,

Yours always Jennie Nawrocki

Knowing Someone

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Always stationery

Relationships stagnant

Nothing changed

We were the same

Years ago

Or weren’t we

Who knows

I haven’t seen you

You haven’t seen me

Only small talk in between

Through wires

Seen and unseen

Even if we don’t

Know each other

We certainly know

The stories

So do we develop healthy

Or stay the same

-Jennie Nawrocki

Be Healthy

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We used to be

A melting pot

Now some call us

A mixed salad

Where each ingredient

Stands out

But nothing was equal

White privilege

Or lettuce dominated

To be true

And honor

All cultures respectfully

We need a new term

Simply put

In a day

Several meals

Could occur

Mixing balances of ingredients

So we are not one

Jumbled dish

But a balanced diet

Where to be healthy

Eat in moderation

Value the rainbow

Of colors

If you must cook

Process as little as possible

For food is best savored

In its natural state

In other words be yourself.

– Jennie Nawrocki

Who?

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Who?

I want to do?

I want to go?

But why?

For yourself?

For someone else?

Who does it help?

How many people does it support?

Just people or environment too?

Maybe even animals benefit?

Could it be tweaked?

Or is it just for family?

Remembering the butterfly effect?

We are not alone?

So I ask who?

-Jennie Nawrocki