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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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You Have a Right
2/12/2023 Channeling my thoughts with you, from my heart to yours. I am angry that YOU have been disrespected. People who made decisions...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 12, 20233 min read
Not a Party Girl
I don’t get invited to many parties. The best thing that ever happened to me was being a ROPES course instructor. Why? The games. And the...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 12, 20234 min read
Big Chicken Got Cooked
It took 13 years for the judge in Tulsa to make his decisions about the way Big Chicken junked the Illinois River Watershed. But the decisio
Rebecca Jim
Jan 29, 20233 min read
More Than Shade
There is power in trees. They can heat us in the winter they can cool us in the summer. They can lift our spirits, they can transport us...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 19, 20233 min read
We All Dream
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream. I had one too. His...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 19, 20233 min read
Checking My List
The season lies about us and remaining on my list are those closest to me. The dear and most cherished, the remarkable cogs that turn...
Rebecca Jim
Dec 26, 20221 min read
No Body's Story
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles Dickens Dickens' A Christmas Carol is read on Christmas...
Rebecca Jim
Dec 26, 20223 min read
Off Duty
Jennifer Little, the gift LEAD Agency got for Christmas arrived early enough to capture the seasons of joy and the stark reality of our...
Rebecca Jim
Dec 11, 20224 min read
It's Hard
I knew it would be hard. The questions on the Flood Survey need to be answered but the heartache and disgust of what past floods have...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 26, 20223 min read
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 31, 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 31, 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 16, 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 16, 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 2, 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 25, 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 10, 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 4, 20223 min read
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