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Meet Don Ackerman
Don Ackerman is a legend in Ottawa County, OK and you haven’t known it. What he did has cost EPA millions of dollars and will cost even more in the decades to come. Those dollars all spent to protect our children from lead poisoning. The lead was found in school yards, parks and residential front and backyards, all being dug up and removed and replaced with clean lead-free soil. Don put this action into motion. We will be forever grateful and will continue to tell this story

Rebecca Jim
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What Could Have Been
Random. I attended the Wild and Scenic Film Festival this weekend that was held at the Circle
Cinema in Tulsa, OK. After hauling bags packed with LEAD Agency schmuck in from the rain I
quickly began laying information out on the last available table. Handouts, flyers, a box of PINS,
newsletters and the print we are selling chances on for Gary & Kimie Calcagno who lost their
home in Stillwater to the fire recently. The first person to stop as I was laying things out looked

Rebecca Jim
Apr 213 min read
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Leaders Standing for Justice
All these years later, we are still waiting for it, for the cleanup you all deserve. The environment waits. The water waits...

Rebecca Jim
Apr 83 min read
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The Great Conjunction
“Justice is calling people to action,”

Rebecca Jim
Feb 183 min read
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Having Humility
My parents made some life-long friends on a bus trip back to the Cherokee Homelands in the 1970’s. The trip took the group to see some of...

Rebecca Jim
Feb 63 min read
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My friend, too
The magic Jill created, I bet she did it for you, and I would imagine we will be telling “Jill” stories for years to come.

Rebecca Jim
Dec 27, 20244 min read
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Wood for the fire
We always heard that wood warms you 3 times, to cut it, stack it and then to finally burn it

Rebecca Jim
Dec 16, 20243 min read
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Matt Black Came
We will have all felt his intentions both visually as well as spiritually are true. His photographs stem from the enduring legacy of the Gre

Rebecca Jim
Dec 2, 20243 min read
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Boarding School Drop Out
Myself I am the product of a boarding school experience. What happened there put me on the road to become a school counselor.

Rebecca Jim
Nov 4, 20244 min read
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This Little Tick of Mine
The Black Angus cattle with the yellow ear tags have been looking at me. The image is of one of Louise Arnold’s oil paintings entitled...

Rebecca Jim
Apr 12, 20243 min read
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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
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Bearing Witness
During the summer of 1964 Freedom Riders trained at Western University, which is now the white bricked portion of Miami University. It...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 5, 20244 min read
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Western Union
Stories, we are all full of them. A number of years ago, my mother’s youngest sister drove to Oklahoma to visit us at the Big Pasture,...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 1, 20244 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Words
Not everyone can put together a book of poetry about a place. It takes time and relationships with the land, the water, the individuals...

Rebecca Jim
Apr 15, 20223 min read
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Your Story
You, your words, your life experiences and your unique view of the place where you live are and have always mattered, but have too seldom...

Rebecca Jim
Apr 6, 20223 min read
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Designing our Future
Niall Kirkwood is a designer. He teaches at the Harvard School of Design. Twelve of his Masters level landscape studio students will...

Rebecca Jim
Feb 9, 20223 min read
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