♡ You are not meant to be a utility, but beautiful.
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Last Notes npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "I thought to myself that a person who lives in denial of who he really is must have a hard time living, because he would have to invent meaning and purpose from the ground up. No one can tell us who we are or how we must live. That knowledge can only be found within. To deny our true nature can only cause tremendous pain." --- Malidoma Patrice Somé, Of Water and the Spirit npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "Despite the toil she did there, she felt an emotional affinity with natural things and may have experienced outdoor time as a balm with healing qualities. The work in nature may have eased the toil of Araminta's disability, too. She was a sensitive person, attuned to her surroundings and appreciative of nature's flourishes." ---Tiya Miles, Night Flyer npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "When we resist expansion, we foster the unreal, serving that part of our ego that wants to limit growth and experience...consequently, in the mind of a villager, the unreal is just a new and yet unconfirmed reality in the vocabulary of consciousness. It is brought to us by the ancestors. A little hospitality toward it will quickly make it part of us" ---Malidoma Patrice Somé, Of Water and the Spirit npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "We must merge with this fire, be one with it, to let our dreams come alive. For in the belly of the fire rests our ancestral lives, in it is who we have always been, who we truly are, and who we must be now." ---Malidoma Patrice Somé, Of Water and the Spirit npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "So maybe patience, for us, means something less dignified than biding time in the trenches. It means building more modestly, without being sure what we’re building, while being prepared to find out we got it wrong." ---William Shoki npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning. The speech of the green lady was intended to stay alive in silence, so let it be" --- Malidoma Patrice Somé, Of Water and the Spirit npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is right and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong" --- Lao Tzu npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "AI is made of people": https://youtu.be/a_ZKYH8v_do npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "The path of liberation is the work of remembrance" ---Lama Rod Owens npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "In the midst of winter, I found within me an invincible summer " ---Albert Camus npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "...which forms of labor should AI relieve us of, and which forms of difficulty must we preserve because they are constitutive of thinking itself?" ---William Shoki, Editor, Africa is a Country npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "Love burns up all necessity and gives freedom...love is creativeness" --- Nicolas Berdyaev npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "The creation of created beings can be directed only towards the increase of creative energy of being, the growth of beings and their harmony in the world, to the production of hiherto non-existent values, new upsurge in truth, goodness and beauty---i.e., towards a 'pleroma,' towards a super-worldly completeness." ---Nicolas Berdyaev npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah https://youtu.be/CX-nwyrRmg0 npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah “One’s atman [wholeness] cannot be ‘produced’ or ‘attained’, for it is already present (…) is the natural condition of the human spirit (…) The activity that seems to bring about the experience of it does so only by destroying the bondage that had hidden it. We are only revealing what had been present all along but hidden: atman. The mystic’s techniques are not ‘producing’ something new but ‘revealing’ something preexistent: ‘Thought Atman is an ever present reality, yet because of ignorance It is unrealized. On the destruction of ignorance, Atman is realized. It is like the case of the ornament on one’s neck.’ Discovering Atman [wholeness] is like finding a necklace hanging on one’s neck: it has always been present and is indeed available, just overlooked. This image emphasizes that atman, and with it the possibility of its realization, is already present to one. It is, in a word, innate.” ---R.K.C. Forman, Mystical Consciousness, the Innate Capacity, and the Perennial Psychology npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah Everything is spiritual; the spiritual affects the material. Accordingly, "spiritualize matter and materialize the spiritual": "The entire visible world is an emanation out of a non-empirical cosmic background, which is the primary reality, while the emanated world is secondary" ---Diogo Valadas Ponte & Lothar Schäfer in Carl Gustav Jung, Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind: A Mystical Vision of the Twenty-First Century (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4217602/#B41-behavsci-03-00601) npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah As humans, people, and being in relationship with each other, we participate in direct observation of our world; we also witness it. Machinery and technology cannot do this. They are outputs of innovation---tools, infrastructure that can enhance, hinder, and shift our observations and capacity to witness, but not replace them. To agree with replacement is to align with control, and even dominance perhaps. Control and dominance doesn't yield thriving fruit, nor love...the greatest fruit of all. Per bell hooks in "Communion," love and dominance can't coexist; not peacefully, not in harmony. If anything, these latter states are a call for love because of the presence of dominance. So with the predominance of tech, why don't we code love./? npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah They are both tools that require human spirit for activation, animation, and use. One for circulation and facilitating exchange, the other to build and render prototypes of our imagination npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah A riddle: what does legal tender or any currency and AI have in common? npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah Revelation is not linear, but components of a larger design for which the #nextknownpoints require honor to seek out npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah As I moved from the machine's epicenter, clarity began to emerge, and tears wanted to flow. Rainier took my breath away instead, reminding me what matters most, followed by a deep inhale and exhale to receive back what I gave, feeling grounded and restored. The realization is nigh: the work must begin. What is the work? npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah The heart pulls are toward self-love, a simple ask to return to that unconditional home, where the only beings that matter in that moment are you and the infinite. So that when you embrace and turn your attention to the heart pull, you're renewed all over again, as if you just experiences Sailor Moon's moon healing escalation/activation. npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah Humanity is a sacred duty. ---@nprofile…rvuv npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah To know or find the beloved, you must become the beloved. npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah #AlabamaShakes ❤️🔥 https://blossom.primal.net/c4bd46f59f87b4a3d3f29f3cdae0130f0a5d4c7e4bfab413d9aaf40c03ce38f8.jpg npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "Our longing for more arises from what is infinite within us, and it aims for the infinite---boundless openness and love. It's never just [the] person that [you] love. It's also the way [your person] suggests and reveals a larger beauty beyond [themselves] sparking an expansive opening in [you] that let's [you] touch the beauty right there within [yourself]." --- John Welwood npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah You are not a probability. You are fact. npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah When you know you're loved https://blossom.primal.net/107a7c2270a8f057df66fd1f4b34d22afd40f2105e8e09615960c7303b3f30b5.jpg npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "’There are no bad people, only badly loved people’…feeling love circulating through you makes you want to celebrate and nurture life, not destroy it” —Arnaud Desjardins + John Welwood npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah First the heart break (see note below), now an exercise to love: I'm reminded to love like my heart has never been broken. So when the words, "are you following me?" left my body and went toward the gentle, armored soul, I remained embodied in an experience meant to disembody and dehumanize me. The call, the stir, the pull to action, and for social justice, are moments and interactions, as they are collective and organized, and all equally transformative. And while my heart didn't break---it wasn't necessary this time---it reverberated, vulnerable and fierce, confident in the truth that what's meant to control and diminish, cannot and will not, not now or ever. That is not my destiny nor yours, gentle, armored one. I feel just as much for you as I feel for myself, as I tend to the angry exasperation your actions ignited. Yet the unmeasurable fathoms of my heart remind me we are not enemies, but brother and sister, forever united in our humanity. And what matters most is our relationship to each other, not our tethers to inanimate practices, systems, and structures. What structures, systems, and practices you may ask? Oh. There are many. The one I speak of right now...is consumer racial profiling. #food #justice #dignity #nevent1q…hqhl npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "Tomorrow is hidden, but yesterday tells the story of how his love never fails" --- Jon Reddick npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "Playing is winning." -- Aditya npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah "The work of saving the world and saving your soul are not two separate projects." -- Erica Williams Simon npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah #food #justice #dignity Food, Justice, and Dignity: Move away from loss prevention to care Retail and grocery stores in Seattle need a different approach to loss prevention. Policies and practices must shift from a deficit-model of preventing loss to creative approaches that prioritize food, justice, and dignity. This paradigm shift would center practices to ensure the freedom of movement, access, and acquisition of food and toiletries to facilitate the transformation of people’s health and well-being. I’ve been racially profiled in retail and grocery stores in Seattle several times. I can attest that existing practices reproduce aspects of the prison industrial complex. There are overlapping layers of physical and tech-enabled surveillance. Employees become de facto food police, separate from third party security staff. In one instance, an employee reported me to on-site security as soon as I walked into the grocery store; a coordinated effort which resulted in security staff following, watching, and standing behind me as I waited in line to make a purchase. Another notable experience involved a person dressed in plain clothes, presumably staff from a contracted security firm. This person used the grocery store shopping cart to egregiously invade my personal space as I shopped and proceeded to follow me to other spaces in the store. To this day, I remain disturbed by this person’s actions. Treating food and toiletries as assets that must be protected and prevented from being “lost” is damaging. It's a harmful application of capitalistic logic. What are we truly solving for when we live, work, and shop in the context of practices predicated on a scarcity mindset legitimized through dehumanizing surveillance? In the same way scholars and advocates argue violence begets violence, loss prevention predicated on racial profiling begets and perpetuates structural racism. In 2020, the American Public Health Association declared structural racism a public health crisis, noting the impact on Black communities, and that structural racism manifests in all our institutions. Retail and grocery stores are no exception. Criminologist Dr. Shaun Gabbidon published a study, Shopping While Black, calling out the understudied phenomena of consumer racial profiling and the harmful consequences of this practice. Consider how we gradually chip away at our humanity when we center loss prevention and racially-biased practices. We should be inspired to care, not disrupt nor destroy people’s sense of dignity, worth, and psychological well-being. Here are three solutions to spark creative discussion and action. First, build relationships with your customers. Engage them, don’t surveil nor rely on tech to tell you who people are. Get to know the people that walk into stores, this includes contracted security staff; they shouldn’t be idle literal gate keepers. Second, establish an economy of care. This means a) producing care in the form of in-house donation programs where customers can round up the cost of their retail and/or grocery bill to contribute to store “petty cash” or collective fund to subsidize or fully pay for others; b) initiate a conscious-shopping program where price labels for goods are affixed with a label that indicates whether a food or toiletry item purchase will add to a store’s collective fund to help others; c) create foodstuffs and toiletry packages that can be picked up weekly. The cost of these can be offset by shifting, in the spirit of equity, money spent on private security. A customer matching program could also help fund this; d) establish a mechanism for consuming care where people can come during specific hours/days of week to shop subsidized items and build a relationship with staff and private security; and finally, e) call in care where community members can contribute to the functioning and sustainability of care-based programs. Third, use restorative justice to respond to transgressions. Food is a basic human right, as are toiletries for personal hygiene. Consumer racial profiling is harmful to those who do it, experience it, and witness it. It separates us from each other and our humanity. Everyone deserves frictionless access to food and toiletries and without having their dignity compromised. We’re all in this together and we need each other. That goes for everyone involved: staff, patrons, and contracted security personnel. We’re all people in need of a more dignified, loving system. Let’s do better and do right by each other, especially for those of us most in need. https://blossom.primal.net/c492bf99c0356735b28f2634fe9d34e3a6c64ad7aabbfcce06b1117973dc017c.png npub19yz2t3v5dcf5a5f3g5t4t7cwh625ulxclqq2c203670e6p2sp7psla9a5n Ajimah [cross-posted on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ajima-olaghere_food-justice-dignity-activity-7432636479819984897-paju] Food, Justice, and Dignity: Let's move away from loss prevention to care Retail and grocery stores in Seattle need a different approach to loss prevention. Policies and practices must shift from a deficit-model of preventing loss to creative approaches that prioritize food, justice, and dignity. This paradigm shift would center practices to ensure the freedom of movement, access, and acquisition of food and toiletries to facilitate the transformation of people’s health and well-being. I’ve been racially profiled in retail and grocery stores in Seattle several times. I can attest that existing practices reproduce aspects of the prison industrial complex. There are overlapping layers of physical and tech-enabled surveillance. Employees become de facto food police, separate from third party security staff. In one instance, an employee reported me to on-site security as soon as I walked into the grocery store; a coordinated effort which resulted in security staff following, watching, and standing behind me as I waited in line to make a purchase. Another notable experience involved a person dressed in plain clothes, presumably staff from a contracted security firm. This person used the grocery store shopping cart to egregiously invade my personal space as I shopped and proceeded to follow me to other spaces in the store. To this day, I remain disturbed by this person’s actions. Treating food and toiletries as assets that must be protected and prevented from being “lost” is damaging. It's a harmful application of capitalistic logic. What are we truly solving for when we live, work, and shop in the context of practices predicated on a scarcity mindset legitimized through dehumanizing surveillance? In the same way scholars and advocates argue violence begets violence, loss prevention predicated on racial profiling begets and perpetuates structural racism. In 2020, the American Public Health Association declared structural racism a public health crisis, noting the impact on Black communities, and that structural racism manifests in all our institutions. Retail and grocery stores are no exception. Criminologist Dr. Shaun Gabbidon published a study, Shopping While Black, calling out the understudied phenomena of consumer racial profiling and the harmful consequences of this practice. Consider how we gradually chip away at our humanity when we center loss prevention and racially-biased practices. We should be inspired to care, not disrupt nor destroy people’s sense of dignity, worth, and psychological well-being. Here are three solutions to spark creative discussion and action. First, build relationships with your customers. Engage them, don’t surveil nor rely on tech to tell you who people are. Get to know the people that walk into stores, this includes contracted security staff; they shouldn’t be idle literal gate keepers. Second, establish an economy of care. This means a) producing care in the form of in-house donation programs where customers can round up the cost of their retail and/or grocery bill to contribute to store “petty cash” or collective fund to subsidize or fully pay for others; b) initiate a conscious-shopping program where price labels for goods are affixed with a label that indicates whether a food or toiletry item purchase will add to a store’s collective fund to help others; c) create foodstuffs and toiletry packages that can be picked up weekly. The cost of these can be offset by shifting, in the spirit of equity, money spent on private security. A customer matching program could also help fund this; d) establish a mechanism for consuming care where people can come during specific hours/days of week to shop subsidized items and build a relationship with staff and private security; and finally, e) call in care where community members can contribute to the functioning and sustainability of care-based programs. Third, use restorative justice to respond to transgressions. Food is a basic human right, as are toiletries for personal hygiene. Consumer racial profiling is harmful to those who do it, experience it, and witness it. It separates us from each other and our humanity. Everyone deserves frictionless access to food and toiletries and without having their dignity compromised. We’re all in this together and we need each other. That goes for everyone involved: staff, patrons, and contracted security personnel. We’re all people in need of a more dignified, loving system. Let’s do better and do right by each other, especially for those of us most in need.