"The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential."
Jean vanier
this is probably where i should explain the title. i am not jimmy. I am not a Jim, nor even a James. No, jimmy is the name bestowed upon me by william, an old paranoid schizophrenic who has changed my life.
let me back up an explain that i live in a home of hospitality for mentally ill men. it's a a catholic worker house, to be specific--a bunch of old and young anarchists and dreamers and people who believe that this life could be, and is, so much better when we surround ourselves with the downtrodden and align ourselves with the poor.
