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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
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JUSTICE
“You can also commit injustice by doing nothing." –Marcus Aurelius
Rebecca Jim
Mar 173 min read
Flossie and Grey
The little woman who was my down-the-alley neighbor turned 100 this year. After she sold her home she moved into Neosho Ridge housing. Her daughter gave me Flossie’s address. I really didn’t need it. I could have walked the neighborhood and known her place. It was the one with Egyptian Walking Onions Allium Cepa Viviparum in pots out front. These “green onions” go to seed, form small onion clusters and when too heavy for the stalk, they fall over and walk all over your gard
Rebecca Jim
Mar 173 min read
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The Great Conjunction
“Justice is calling people to action,”
Rebecca Jim
Feb 18, 20253 min read
What if it Mattered?
I have been so very proud of your actions to write to FERC and let them know how you feel and tell them YOU DO NOT want to FLOOD! Your...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 9, 20243 min read
What You Don’t See
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau Paul, Stephanie and I walked and knocked and talked...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 5, 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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