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I work surrounded by art, encouraged by artists who see this damaged place, mourn with us and lift up the hope for a better tomorrow through the art that challenges reality with their mockingly clever creations. While at the LEAD Agency office just this week, a gentleman who I had never met walked in with a sack and was about to leave when I stopped him to introduce myself, while another man hollered out his name in great familiarity. The gentleman stopped and handed me the s

When you live in the country not all your mail is in the mailbox. Laying flung into the tall grass was a book I had ordered just a few days ago. The timing couldn’t have been better. I was experiencing a great deal of shoulder pain and the PA instructed me to rest to not further complicate the injury. So, with those instructions, I dove into Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser. It’s been a long time since I picked up a book and too

Just down past the Rock Pond, and across the field, the lake appears to the south. It had been a lake once before. My dad inherited the land where I live when his father died in 1929. He was just eighteen years old. His older brother received the land across the fence, but chose to sell it to go into business. But my dad held on to his, paid the taxes for decades before he returned to the land to retire. When he and my mother arrived for keeps, the first thing he told her

Meredith Garvin called me and I missed talking to her. I had tried calling her number for the last year and leaving messages, and she had called the office and I had not been there to take the call. I was left remembering the last time she came to our office. Don, her husband was with her in the car. I missed saying thank you to her for all the kindness and good work she had done and letting Don know that working with him at Will Rogers was a highlight in my school career. B

A while back there was a man standing in the middle of the narrow part of Highway 10 between Welch and Miami was the first sign it wasn’t going to be a normal morning. An old navy-blue pickup truck had taken out a utility pole and with the pole gone, the live wires were pulled across the road in a dangerous way. Both the car behind me and mine turned around to find an alternate route, when a man approached my passenger side window. He said his phone was dead and wondered if I

Don Ackerman is a legend in Ottawa County, OK and you haven’t known it. What he did has cost EPA millions of dollars and will cost even more in the decades to come. Those dollars all spent to protect our children from lead poisoning. The lead was found in school yards, parks and residential front and backyards, all being dug up and removed and replaced with clean lead-free soil. Don put this action into motion. We will be forever grateful and will continue to tell this story

Random. I attended the Wild and Scenic Film Festival this weekend that was held at the Circle Cinema in Tulsa, OK. After hauling bags packed with LEAD Agency schmuck in from the rain I quickly began laying information out on the last available table. Handouts, flyers, a box of PINS, newsletters and the print we are selling chances on for Gary & Kimie Calcagno who lost their home in Stillwater to the fire recently. The first person to stop as I was laying things out looked

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The magic Jill created, I bet she did it for you, and I would imagine we will be telling “Jill” stories for years to come.

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