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The Desk not the Table
"use the years we are gifted to do more with our lives. Fill yours, reach out and connect with a child, do more than sit out your years. I will suggest you find a table and gather your people around it and decide to change the world."
Rebecca Jim
Dec 11, 20253 min read
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 2, 20253 min read
Reclaiming our Water
“It takes all of us to make a difference for all of us.”
Rebecca Jim
Nov 20, 20253 min read
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Survey Your Moment
What is LEAD Agency doing right now? We are deeply into surveys. The word survey can be both a noun and a verb, since a survey can be a...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20223 min read
A Night Out
Red Dirt and Brownfields was not a place but a time. A Geography professor, a filmmaker, an author, a photographer and an activist met...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20223 min read
Who Done It?
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou This town has...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20224 min read
Black and Orange
What right do a group of fellows have to violate the Clean Water Act and dam up a natural flowing stream? No right. It is against the...
Rebecca Jim
Oct 30, 20223 min read
The Bridge
"Action is the bridge between thoughts and reality" ~ Richie Norton I'd like there to be a future. Of course there will be a future,...
Rebecca Jim
Oct 30, 20223 min read
Wednesday Morning
Together we have thought and pondered. We have tuned up our voices. And practiced believing our lives matter. There have been alignments...
Rebecca Jim
Oct 15, 20224 min read
Every Seat Was Filled
Hope and Restoration resounded in Richard Zane Smith's words: "Draw our minds together as one so we can work together and give thanks to...
Rebecca Jim
Oct 15, 20223 min read
Designing a Rain Garden
A Rain Garden does NOT require the use of umbrellas! "A rain garden is a landscaped, shallow depression planted with native plants that...
Rebecca Jim
Oct 1, 20224 min read
I Didn't Know To Ask
Monday morning brought me the opportunity to spend time with a group of women who spoke a language I had never heard spoken before that...
Rebecca Jim
Sep 24, 20223 min read
End of an Era
The sky was clear, the wind calm, the sun shine bright. We hadn't a clue the Queen would die just hours later. The morning was still...
Rebecca Jim
Sep 9, 20223 min read
Wait 'Til You See It
A woman named Harriet Festing called out of the blue one day. And called back several more times inquiring about the repetitive flooding...
Rebecca Jim
Sep 3, 20223 min read
Tommy Bear
With summer, my Dad would often quote the poem one of his classmates wrote when they were very young children. The poem was not about the...
Rebecca Jim
Sep 3, 20223 min read
Be Brave
In the privacy of your car there is a thing you can do. Drive down Main Street, like usual, but when you are alone in your car, slow down,...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 20, 20224 min read
The Game
There are lots of comparisons to life itself being a "game." But the greatest example I am aware of is played in our area and was being...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 16, 20223 min read
Dams Can Be Removed
"There are places you will remember"... are words from a song you may remember. But the places you remember, yours and mine, may differ...
Rebecca Jim
Aug 4, 20223 min read
Think WATERSHEDS
We can get our head around the Tar Creek watershed, we know those ephemeral streams who catch up to her and add their flows to her...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 30, 20223 min read
Bales of Hay
Since I became LEAD Agency's Tar Creekkeeper, recognized by the Waterkeeper Alliance for being her best advocate, I have struggled to get...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 23, 20223 min read
Ground Glass
I recycle my glass. It hasn't been easy since the place in Vinita folded and quit taking any. We have all hoped Red Cedar or the City of...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 16, 20223 min read
A Real Summer
It has begun. A real summer. Like the ones we remember, those hot and drier days that barely cool even deep in the night. These are the...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 16, 20223 min read
Exposome
It isn’t a place or a brand new museum. You don’t go there to explore. Perhaps you might think of it as a way to explain us. Who we are,...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 16, 20223 min read
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