Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
In light of Trump's Good Friday lunch speech in which he declared that the federal government "can't do child care" and all these "individual things" like Medicare and health care, in which he explicitly said that the only thing the feds should be funding is the military, I decided to take him up on that...… Continue reading The Daily: 15 April 2026
Winter has somewhat relented. The snow is gone. We've had showers of just plain rain, not snow or sleet, and several days with the sun shining. At least for a few hours. But it is not warm. Sunday morning the weather forecast was for 60s (°F) and rain; we woke to 27°F and weak sunlight… Continue reading The Daily: 13 April 2026
If you leave a man on land which is someone else's property and tell him he is a completely free man and can work for himself, it's as if you drop him in the middle of the Atlantic and tell him he is free to go ashore. — Henry George in Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom… Continue reading The Daily: 12 April 2026
And so the question is... is this going to be a sort of epic TACO Tuesday?... or is the cabal of amoral, aggressive manbabies led by an increasingly humiliated and demented sociopath going to drop nuclear weapons on a "whole country" at prime time tonight? Any way you slice it, the current world order is… Continue reading The Daily: 7 April 2026
There seems to be some struggle to enumerate the ways in which closing the Strait of Hormuz affects an average person anywhere in the world, but particularly within the historically comfortably insulated United States. This stems from our broad and long-standing ignorance of how stuff gets to us. This is such a deep problem that… Continue reading The Daily: 6 April 2026
Today is National Dandelion Day. It's also Easter. I don't celebrate Easter in the Christian sense. I think there is quite enough suffering in the world without invoking the sacrifice of grain gods into the beginning of spring. However, I am starting to think that the secular holiday, the bits with rabbits and eggs and… Continue reading The Daily: 5 April 2026
The Daily for 29 March 2024: Hot cross buns!
The Daily for 1 April 2024: a high probability of pranks
Saturday was such a buoyant day with the No Kings rallies exploding beyond all our wildest expectations that I was still floating on Palm Sunday. And then the sun came out! So I decided to welcome in Spring. The house is clean. There are rabbits and colorful eggs here and there. And a small vase… Continue reading The Daily: 30 March 2026
Today is Palm Sunday and this coming weekend is Easter. There are palm parades and processions all over, and today is a traditional day for Pace Egg plays, a sort of mumming that features St George and the Dragon. Bake a Pax cake (which are shortbreads with springy decorations in jam or frosting) or figgy… Continue reading The Daily: 29 March 2026
By My Solitary Hearth 