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These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.
Rebecca Jim
May 123 min read
BEAVERS to the Rescue
A beaver is yes, a rodent but they are also ecosystem engineers who can shape wetlands and create biodiversity.
Rebecca Jim
Apr 73 min read
JUSTICE
“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." –Marcus Aurelius
Rebecca Jim
Mar 173 min read
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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
I deferred
The image in my head is of the me standing up midst and among the rows of Waterkeepers and yelling the words that 20 years ago Earl...
Rebecca Jim
May 4, 20234 min read
Someone Cared
After all these years, the effort has worked. The Miami Police Department got the call, and they turned on their lights and approached...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 25, 20233 min read
Table Talk
The dining table Tony Booth donated to LEAD Agency has been with us since we moved into the ROCK House and later when we brought it to...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 25, 20233 min read
Start Dreaming
Without a dream, with no hope, with no plan for change, we will have no change. Billy Mills, began his Dreamstarter program on the 50th...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 5, 20233 min read
Mom Guilt
Environmental Activism was never something I thought would be my life's work, but it found me. It was not like getting hit over the head...
Kindel Maymi
Mar 28, 20233 min read
I Come Back
Many years ago, my dad experienced a moment that occurred one afternoon in downtown Vinita. Two old Cherokee men were walking toward each...
Rebecca Jim
Mar 26, 20233 min read
Light of the Moon
Over the last few months, I have continued to listen to your stories and have been touched by the generosity you have shown not only to...
Rebecca Jim
Mar 21, 20233 min read
Start with Trees
LEAD’s Community Garden went to sleep for the most part during the Pandemic. We didn’t gather volunteers, no Garden Parties, not a weekly...
Rebecca Jim
Mar 4, 20233 min read
Lowdown at the Coleman
The takeaway for me was, run as fast as you can, dance every dance, do what you will, but do it NOW. The days may be numbered to...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 24, 20233 min read
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