Gloria in Nigeria (English and Spanish)
Gloria Ezeonyeasi is a Regional WAVE Director for Big Ocean Women who lives in London. She has traveled to Nigeria to meet with women and teach about our tenets, train…
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The Expansiveness of Pockets and the Understandable Mystery of the Things we Choose to Carry—
Lead photo credit: Anne Nygard via Unsplash There is a stone on my kitchen windowsill—milky white and strangely light and run through with veins of red and rust and brown,…
We Are Not Just Another Wave. We Are the Ocean.
Dear Sisters, There is a quiet power in the world today. It does not clamor for attention, it does not need to shout. It moves like water—deep, persistent, life-giving. That…
Currents September 2024
IYKYK (If you know, you know). This acronym often accompanies memes on social media. What if we change the emphasis by changing the last letter: IYKYG (If you know, you…
On Knowing the Unknowable—Meditations on the Sea at Sunset
I have been thinking, this summer, about the sea. It is a far cry from the baked dry desert heat of my mountain home, a heat that withers even the…
Words from the Wise
Lead Photo Credit: Alex Shute via Unsplash This month’s tenet states, “We seek after knowledge and wisdom.” We believe wisdom is the highest form of knowledge. Knowledge and wisdom are…
Our Gifts to Give
Lead image photo credit: Lina Trochez via Unsplash I am married to a man who is naturally gifted in many ways. One of the gifts that I find myself most…
Meet Big Ocean – Paige
Paige Kelly, one of our talented writers, grew up in the historic town of Ogden, Utah. She describes a picturesque childhood “filled with catching water skeeters in the creek near…
Currents September 2022
What does it mean to you to seek after knowledge and wisdom? Sometimes we think of the time spent in school, or returning to college to complete a degree or…
Out of the Mouths of Babes
As a mom of three littles, I’ve found some deep wisdom from my sweet ones. It often comes out of nowhere and takes me off guard a bit. I thought…
Knowledge vs. Wisdom
I’ve been pondering how to seek knowledge and wisdom — keeping an ear to the ground for what I might learn. This light-hearted explanation made me smile, but also rang…
September 2019 Board Message
We Seek After Knowledge and Wisdom This summer I have had the amazing opportunity to live in southeast Alaska where my husband got a job as a deep-sea fishing captain.…