Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Full Blue Blueberry Supermoon The Blueberry Moon is full tonight at 9:36pm. This is the second full moon in August, so this is a blue moon. This is also the time of year that the moon is closest to earth, so it is a supermoon, also the second one in August. As I said earlier… Continue reading The Daily: 30 August 2023
The Blueberry Moon is full tomorrow. It is the second full moon of August 2023, so it's a blue moon. I don't know where August went this year. Seems I was just writing for the full Hay Moon at the beginning of the month, and here it is, a full lunation gone. Not only has… Continue reading The Daily: 29 August 2023
So the flu was bad, the mold-cleaning process was worse, my car's corroded rear shock mounts broke, and all week it's been nice each day — while I was trapped at work — until about 4pm, at which point it rained in torrents until after midnight. I have made no progress on the groundhog or… Continue reading The Daily: 28 August 2023
The groundhog developed a taste for squash leaves while I was away last week. I assume this is either retribution, since I'm not providing more beans, or desperation, eating anything that was in that bean heaven in hopes of finding something as delicious — though there are hundreds of plants that are less spiny and… Continue reading The Daily: 21 August 2023
The Blueberry Moon was new on Wednesday. I did not see it. I can't remember the last time I saw the moon. On Wednesday it was pouring again. We had 2.5 inches of rain, according to my gauge. For comparison, an average August, back when there were such things, saw 3.4 inches of rain in… Continue reading The Daily: 18 August 2023
The Feast of the Assumption It is the Feast of the Assumption. In the Church calendar, this is the day Mother Mary was taken bodily up to heaven without the inconvenience of dying first. But in the older calendar of Europe, this was the time when it was recognized that the heat of summer was… Continue reading The Daily: 15 August 2023
It’s getting to that point of the year when I would really like to have a four-day workweek, especially since I spend so much of my workday doing not much of anything productive. Okay, so maybe it’s all my workday that is not productive. I’m fairly sure that if everything I do all day would… Continue reading The Daily: 14 August 2023
The Perseids are falling in the late night sky again. Once again, there is little chance that I can see them. This year that might be true of most of the country — except those trapped under that heat dome. And you all might even want to be awake at that time of night, when… Continue reading The Daily: 12 August 2023
This is a repost that is equally valid today as a year or so ago when I wrote it. This depresses me... but it also allows me to share it again. I think there may be a new motif taking root in a certain class of writer. (How’s that for a vague beginning?) There is… Continue reading The Daily: 11 August 2023
Last week, someone I love dearly left this world in body. So I am grieving. As it happens, this person was so central in my life that most of the people I know are grieving also. We are a community of loss right now. Not much is happening beyond that loss and its immediate effects.… Continue reading The Daily: 8 August 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 