Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
for 30 November 2022 St Andrew by Artus Wolffurt (1581-1641) Today is St Andrew's Day. Andrew, whose name means simply "a man" (though it can also be glossed as "virile" or "manly"), was the brother of St Peter. Both were fishermen and, as such, were part of the backbone of the local economy. He is… Continue reading The Daily
for 29 November 2022 Beware of those who want to convince you that it is impossible to strive for good just because it is impossible to reach perfection. — John Ruskin in Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom, 26 November I spent Thanksgiving with millennial New Yorkers, my son's friends and co-workers. A nicer, more enthusiastic group… Continue reading The Daily
for 28 November 2022 Thanksgiving is over. In my world that means it's time to shift the mood in my house from early winter to midwinter. Wednesday is St Andrew's Day and the traditional start of the winter holidays. So it's now time to put away the rusty colors and start pulling out Yule reds,… Continue reading The Daily
In the continuing saga of plunder and extortion that is life in the 21st century... Son#1 and I went down to visit Son#2 and his new wife for a Thanksgiving with his "caravan of exalted, super-twinkly, international friends." (Name that quote and you can probably figure out where I was...) This was a long-planned trip.… Continue reading An….d We’re Back…
Enjoy your holiday! However you celebrate! Cheers! I'll be busy. There may be more here over the weekend, but it's not looking good...
for 23 November 2022 The Hunter's Moon is dark today. Tomorrow begins the Winter Sleep Moon. In this culture we don't do that... sleep more in winter, that is. This is one of the things my body has never made peace with. I am not on the work-day sleep schedule at the best of times.… Continue reading The Daily
for 22 November 2022 If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it. — Shakespeare, Twelfth Night November 22nd is St Cecilia’s Day. Nothing of her story bears repeating, but through it she became the patron saint of musicians. And maybe there is more in that story of a feisty… Continue reading The Daily
for 21 November 2022 There is no deed in this life so impossible that you cannot do it. Your whole life should be lived as an heroic deed. — from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom for 21 November I don't know about heroic, but I wanted to take a moment to say that doing this de-growth… Continue reading The Daily
20 November 2022 Set garlike and pease saint Edmund to please 20 November is the Feast of St Edmund the Martyr. I'm not sure when this quip, found in the Oxford Book of Days (Blackburn & Holford-Strevens, Oxford, 2000), was current. From the spelling, I would guess 15th or 16th century. Perhaps earlier, as Edmund's… Continue reading The Daily
19 November 2022 This weather is not doing things by half, I'll give it that. We went from the longest growing season on record — 181 days, theoretically long enough to grow even protracted growing season veg like okra — with the official first frost date ringing in at 28 October, to... well, there's a… Continue reading The Daily
By My Solitary Hearth 