Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Today is St Brigid's Eve. Brigid (also Bride, Brighid, Breeshey, Ffraid, Britgantia or Bridget) was a goddess with unusually broad distribution throughout the lands of Celtic-language peoples. Along with Lugh (who was not her consort, nor even related...), she seems to have been the principal idea of deity for these peoples, and because both are… Continue reading The Daily: 31 January 2025
The Feast of St Brigid, or Imbolg, is an ancient holiday that falls on 1 February, midway between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox. Brigid’s Feast Day is said to be set to this date at her request so that her day would precede the Marian Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, or… Continue reading The Daily: 30 January 2025
Snow Moon The Wolf Moon went dark yesterday at 7:36am and Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, began with all its riotous color and spark last night. Today, the Snow Moon, the fourth moon in my lunar year, is new. In my calendar this is the season of Imbolg, the stirring of spring in… Continue reading The Daily: 30 January 2025
The Wolf Moon goes dark today at 7:36am (what happened to this month!), so the crescent Snow Moon might be visible tonight at sunset, though it would be faint and you'd need a very flat western horizon to see it. In traditional lunisolar calendars, the Moon is not new until you can see that crescent.… Continue reading The Daily: 29 January 2025
It seems to me that when people talk about voluntary simplicity, they are talking about refusing to engage with wasteful lifestyle patterns. Which is well and good at face value. But then they go on, and you notice the way they are defining the definition, heavy on the stylizing, a bit more fuzzy on what… Continue reading The Daily: 28 January 2025
It's that time of year when I have to remind myself to eat... at least once a day. I'm just not that hungry in the late winter, especially in the morning. Breakfast is right out. Dinner is more of a snack. And there are some days when I am getting ready to brush my teeth… Continue reading The Daily: 27 January 2025
Something about technology that doesn’t work properly just sets me off. I know I’m overreacting, but that doesn’t stop me. I can fume about it for hours, and even for days if it’s not resolved. I just expect things to work, or to be simple to correct when they don’t. When you buy something, I’ve… Continue reading The Daily: 24 January 2025
We're going to try this thing again. I'm going to toss a brief idea out there and see what responses come back. Maybe the response is merely that someone thinks about something differently, and that is just fine. But maybe there can be some discussion... though it is harder to negotiate the comments on WordPress… Continue reading The Daily: 22 January 2025
I have been on Starhawk's Earth Activism weblist for, I think, as long as she's had it. I've followed her writings for my entire adult life. The Spiral Dance, her influential first book (and, to my mind, still her best) was published in 1979, not far from 50 years ago. (How's that for making you… Continue reading The Daily: 21 January 2025
Today, we are not talking about the travesty of an inauguration that is happening somewhat south of here. I am doing my utmost to draw lines around my world and stay within those lines. I am not paying attention to things that I can't change and that don't truly affect me directly anyway. On that… Continue reading The Daily: 20 January 2025
By My Solitary Hearth 