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Rising Star & Mexican Water
I spent an afternoon with a rising star film maker and the stars she has created, reluctant me and Dana Tiger , absolutely delighting in every moment of the attention. Jane Breckinridge asked us to come to the Euchee Butterfly Farm outside Bixby, OK to screen both of Loren Waters’ short documentaries, Meet Me at the Creek and her latest film, Tiger and to sit for a panel discussion after the viewings. The afternoon’s event began with Creek tribal hymns sung a Capela. I becam
Rebecca Jim
Dec 23 min read
Piney Woods
Out here on the land I am taking back to tallgrass prairie, the electric company and the pine bark beetles are both taking their roles seriously to help in that endeavor
Rebecca Jim
Nov 123 min read
Nominated by Grace
At the annual Oklahoma Native American Elder Honor celebration, I joined 48 others from 23 Oklahoma tribes to be recognized this year. It was held at the First Americans Museum
Rebecca Jim
Nov 84 min read
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Heat for the Cold
I have been waking up in a whole new world. The shift is real. The change just settling in with me. The struggle to be warm during these...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 30, 20243 min read
And Then You Win
We are left with questions. What will happen now? And when does NOW begin? What will the new normal be? Two important announcements were...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 23, 20244 min read
Hacked to Death
“It is not so much for the Beauty that the forest makes a claim upon man’s hearts, as for that subtle something, quality of the air that...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 16, 20244 min read
Eye Opening Report
Karman King began by going over the highlights of her resume, from being the aquatic toxicologist during the Exxon Valdez spill to her 35...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 5, 20243 min read
Feed the Birds
When we think about the winter settling in and the trees going dormant, the limbs, with the branches revealed suddenly the winged ones...
Rebecca Jim
Dec 1, 20233 min read
That’s Nuts!
The freezing nights were followed by the sudden drop of the walnut leaves, not singles, but frons laid out as if they had ended the poker...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 27, 20233 min read
Summing up the Summit
EPA’s Region 6 2-Day Environmental Justice Summit was held by zoom and I was invited to present during the first afternoon session. All...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 24, 20233 min read
It’s a Picher Perfect Day
What’s that mean? How could it translate into a Thriller, Horror, or a Musical? There is a great deal of interest in Picher. What it was....
Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20233 min read
We Start as Water
No other words would have been appropriate for starting the 25th National Environmental Tar Creek Conference. The words begin the poem by...
Rebecca Jim
Oct 18, 20233 min read
Be There for Tar Creek
For over 25 years children have been creating Tar Creek Fish. What? Yes, on one side was a wounded, perhaps sick or deformed, oddly...
Rebecca Jim
Sep 27, 20233 min read
Walking Wake
When a dear friend called to ask me to come honor her husband’s life after his long struggle to live, I said, “yes.” But the ask was for...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 25, 20233 min read
Work and Play
New friends see this place with new eyes. They pose the questions we no longer ask, having received only silence decades before. I made...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 4, 20233 min read
I Get It
When the rain storm had passed it was time to meet one of this year’s Billy Mills Dreamstarters: Loren Waters. I was to join her and...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 26, 20233 min read
Grandmas’ Letters
Morning came and I went looking for a letter one of my grandmothers had written me. It was easy. There in the closet on the shelf in the...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 24, 20233 min read
A Random Photograph
The 1968 photograph showed me standing on the edge of a roadway somewhere in west Texas. I had caught a ride overnight in a semi owned by...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 7, 20233 min read
It will Kill You
Sometimes people say, “It will kill you,” and, hey, it doesn’t, won’t, hasn’t, so we tend to downplay the warning. I have been guilty of...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 5, 20233 min read
Something’s Wrong
Those words woke me at 4 this morning. I rose to find nothing wrong. The clarity of the voice bridged the chasm of the place between...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 29, 20233 min read
Flooded by Memories
I want to swim in Tar Creek ~ I want to fish in Tar Creek ~ I want to play in Tar Creek ~ Maybe someday Tar Creek is my creek ~~ EPA...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 5, 20233 min read
Another Big Week
I like to say it starts with water. But actually, it started in New Jersey. NEW JERSEY? Yes, the Picher Project was going to be...
Rebecca Jim
May 24, 20233 min read
I Drove Home
I drove home facing the sun again. All these years coming and going to work the Sun greets me each day and leads me home again. Tonight,...
Rebecca Jim
May 24, 20233 min read
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