Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
A Narrow Door Joanne Harris Pegasus Crime, 2022 Joanne Harris continually amazes me. Her writing prowess, her vast breadth of knowledge, her wit and open-eyed clarity all make for fascinating reads. Every single time. I will admit to being small enough to feel jealous of her skill when I open her books. And A Narrow Door… Continue reading A Narrow Door: Review
In the past couple weeks I’ve encountered two new books from people who should know better claiming that our big brains and social systems are rooted in hunting. This is the bad penny of origin stories — Man the Hunter. It is time someone bites down on this one and shows once and for all… Continue reading Further Exegesis of A Man
Hildegard's vision of the cosmos Philosophers and mystics throughout time have been showing us that everything is connected, that humans are part of that everything, that unity is fundamental — and sacred. This tradition is more prevalent and prominent in the East and in most Indigenous cultures, but in the West we have our cosmologists… Continue reading On the Existence of A Man
Remarkably, the stolen $1000 has been replaced. It reappeared in my bank balance just before 5pm on Friday, the literal end of the ten-day window Robinhood had to prove their right to take my money after I filed a dispute. It is listed as a "provisional credit" with Robinhood's name associated with it. I do… Continue reading Robinhood Update
It is early July. In my country, we set fire to gunpowder and other explosives wrapped in paper — which are produced almost entirely in extremely hazardous conditions outside of this country — to mimic the actual gunpowder explosions that presumably were the background for the signing of a document that declared this small group… Continue reading On the Existence of Independence
By My Solitary Hearth 