Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Don't you hate when reality ruins a really good idea... Yeah, I know that's not a problem for many people. Economics — even "ecological economics" — wouldn't be a thing if it was regularly reality tested, being based on scarcity over abundance and competition over cooperation... neither of which are true. But anyway... "Grow your… Continue reading The Daily: 25 August 25
The Blueberry Moon went dark yesterday at 2:06am. Today begins the eleventh moon of the year, the Nutting Moon. The Nutting Moon is new between 17 August and 14 September and full between 31 August and 28 September. It is one of two moons that may be dropped to accommodate the wandering Harvest Moon, which… Continue reading The Daily: 24 August 2025
The sweet corn harvest is late here in Vermont. We haven't seen the guy with the pick-up full of corn at the traffic circle. No cubic yard bins of corn at the grocery stores. Very little at the farmers' markets. The orchard I frequent announced that they have corn, but I haven't made it up… Continue reading The Daily: 18 August 2025
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 2025
The Perseid meteor shower begins its peak about now. This floating pile of space gunk is left over from Comet Swift-Tuttle and is quite thick still, making for hundreds of collisions with our atmosphere as we pass through it. You can expect fifty or so meteor sightings an hour, about one a minute, from the… Continue reading The Daily: 11 August 2025
The Blueberry Moon is full early this morning at 3:54am. Last night's moonrise was closest, but tonight's will still be almost full. If you have breathable air, go enjoy the radiance for all of us who are living in perpetual eclipse. Meanwhile, here is a story for the Blueberry Moon... I started writing a story… Continue reading The Daily: 9 August 2025
Tonight's moonrise (at 8:06pm my time) is closest to full which happens early tomorrow morning at 3:54am. It will not be a good night to watch moonrise here in central Vermont. The smoke is dangerous. Just a few minutes and your eyes are burning. I might look out a window though, because the moon looks… Continue reading The Daily: 8 August 2025
Another fun week in paradise… The smoke has been officially “unhealthy” several times in the last thirteen days and has spent most of that time merely at “unhealthy for sensitive groups”. Temperatures hit 90°F several of those days, with lows only in the 70s, so… not cool enough to cool down the house overnight without… Continue reading The Daily: 4 August 2025
Lammas It's the probably not-terribly-ancient festival of bread, Lammas, Hlaf-mas, Loaf Mass. This holiday is possibly an English variant on the Irish first fruits and fair festival of Lughnasadh, but compacted into one day and generally lacking any ritual or narrative. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, churches in East Anglia constructed elaborate… Continue reading The Daily: 2 August 2025
Lughnasadh It is Lughnasadh. This is my favorite time of year. Some may love midwinter twinkle; others may love the summer sun. But I live for the autumn blaze. The cooling weather, the increasing darkness, the slowing pace and renewed time for reading and introspection. The color and pageantry of fall. The scents of leaf… Continue reading The Daily: 1 August 2025
By My Solitary Hearth 