Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Today is Father's Day in the US. I am ambivalent about both Sundays dedicated to our immediate forebears. I sometimes buy my mom little things for her garden or kitchen. I write my dad long emails which is his favorite mode of communication these days. I don't buy greeting cards or gifts and don't expect… Continue reading The Daily: 18 June 2023
A Love Story for Bloomsday Thomas Bloom was a professor. Business. He was not remarkable looking, talking, feeling, or thinking. The only remarkableness about Tom was an enormous lack of remarkableness. Bored freshmen amused themselves by pretending this apparent unremarkability constituted a cover for a secret identity of intrigue. Only for amusement. Could they have… Continue reading The Daily: 16 June 2023
June 15th, the Ides of June, was the last day of Vestalia. With great ceremony, the sanctuary of Vesta was cleansed and closed to the public for another year, the sustaining Vestal hearth-flame hidden behind walls that no man was allowed to pass. This is a slack time, a time when heat is intolerable and… Continue reading The Daily: 15 June 2023
I recently finished Brandon Sanderson's latest Cosmere book, Tress of the Emerald Sea. Like all his books, this one is full of tangential tales and side trips into philosophy, science, and whatever strikes his wide-ranging fancy in the moment. Sanderson is witty without being arrogant and patronizing. His characters are never contrived. His worlds are… Continue reading The Daily: 13 June 2023
The weather continues be confusing. We finally got rain. It has been wet all week, though the precipitation has mostly been those sporadic misting showers that hardly reach the ground. Still, it's stayed humid and we did get a couple good soakings, one storm complete with lightning and hail. Could do without the hail. But… Continue reading The Daily: 12 June 2023
In the last few years I’ve seen a wide variety of people arrive at the conclusion that what we need as a society to avert self-destruction — self and everything else, that is — is a new religion. I’ve encountered novelists and sociologists (who might be predisposed), economists (who probably are not), celebrity chefs and… Continue reading The Daily: 7 June 2023
May was rough! Weather.com has an almanac page showing the whole month at a glance. There were several days with highs only in the 40s (°F) and lows in the 20s. The highest temperature, 89°F, was recorded on the last day of the month; the lowest, 24°F, was just two weeks before that. The average… Continue reading The Daily: 5 June 2023
The seventh moon of the year is the Flower Moon. It is new between 23 April and 21 May. It is full between 7 May and 4 June. This year it is full right at the tail end of its period, at 11:42pm tonight. It will rise closest to full this evening as the sun is setting, at… Continue reading The Daily: 3 June 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 