Folk Wisdom... Folk Arts... and words that want to be shared

By Katie Culhane

Bread making has been passed down by the women in my father's family for generations. Bread is a source of pride for these Celtic grandmothers; it is a hearth labour that warms the belly and the heart.

Although there are measurements and precision on the page, baking is about the...

Mel makes magic.

Specifically the kind of magic that you can wear every day, and that serves as a reminder to step back from the daily nonsense and bullshit, and remember that you are amazing, this too shall pass, and things will be fine. Magical even. Mel’s jewelry is magical. It can...

Volunteer Spotlight

Sue has been offering her hands and heart to Ninth Wave Arts from the beginning. Whether you’ve bumped into her chopping wood, cleaning out the composting toilets, moving sacred stones around on the tractor, carrying the trash, or washing the dishes, she’s been...

By Kristine Karpinski

I watched the turkeys the other day as they ran proudly across the newly snow covered field.

There were twelve in total, all trying to win the race from the big cedar to the big pine and back again as if passing messages from one tree to the other. Tight on their tails were...

From all the places I've lived, I’ve been listening and noticing …

You humans used to live in nature. Now you live in cities. You used to talk to each other face to face. Now you tap on screens. You used to be aware of and connected to our world and its beauty. Now you’re mired...

By Melanie Paquette

I recently read a quote about divination that really resonated with me: “divination is not seeing the future; it’s looking at the present from a different perspective and seeing connections that were otherwise invisible.”

As Yule approaches and we start to...