Archive - Folkist Work

The Idea is Not the Hard Part

On Meitheals, Group Projects, and Becoming a Maker

Jul 31 •

June 2025

Lessons from the Dust

On housecleaning, grief, and making room for something new to arrive.

Jun 30 •

May 2025

How Do You Give Yourself Away?

On piñatas, piracy, and gift economics.

May 30 •

April 2025

Walking Off the Map

In defense of practicing oral traditions in a literate society.

Apr 30 •

March 2025

Learning to Love the Laundry

Interrogating our relationship to endless, unsolvable problems

Mar 13 •

January 2025

What is Folkist Work?

A newsletter about using mostly-free, mostly-analog folk practices to make modern life feel worth living again.

Jan 23 •

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