A not unexpected family emergency is making it difficult for me to write today. Posts may be suspended for a bit, depending on how this goes. — Eliza
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Author: Eliza Daley
I'm an inveterate book-slinger, gardener, baker, geologist & writer. This blog is a collection of book talk, recipes, gardening tips, observations & essays on nature & culture — with a healthy dose of armchair philosophy & sociology — my attempt to muddle through all the mess and feel the wonder of this world.
The Daily: 28 March 2023
I'm reading Dougald Hine's At Work in the Ruins. I'm not done with it so I'm not ready to discuss the book at length. I'm also not sure I need to because everybody else has already, though I am sure my views will trend in different directions than reviews I've read thus far. We'll see… Continue reading The Daily: 28 March 2023
The Daily: 27 March 2023
So planting did not happen on Lady Day. The temperature dropped precipitously early in the morning of the 25th and by dawn it was 20°F. This, after being warm enough on the 24th to walk home from work without a coat, although the wind was already nippy. So, on Saturday there was solid frost in… Continue reading The Daily: 27 March 2023
The Daily: 25 March 2023
The pleasures of the rich are acquired by the tears of the poor. Wealth is concentrated by human labor; usually one people produce labor, and others concentrate it. This is called the 'division of labor' by contemporary wise people. — Tolstoy in his Calendar of Wisdom for 19 March Those who own land in amounts… Continue reading The Daily: 25 March 2023
The Daily: 23 March 23
Summer Finding: an Exercise in Speculative History I have a note in my weather journal that March 23rd was observed in early Medieval Norse lands as Summer Finding. There is a corresponding Winter Finding as well, though it is moved further from the Autumn Equinox and deeper into winter. I can find no modern Pagans… Continue reading The Daily: 23 March 23
The Daily: 22 March 2023
The Earth, the air, the water, and the Sun belong to all of us; they cannot be made objects of property. — after Tolstoy, Calendar of Wisdom, 23 March World Water Day: Accelerating Change World Water Day is 22 March 2023. This annual observance was organized by the United Nations in 1993 to focus attention… Continue reading The Daily: 22 March 2023
The Daily: 21 March 2023
We know our life as it exists only here, in this world; therefore, if our life is to have any meaning, it should be here in this world. — Tolstoy in his Calendar of Wisdom for 21 March Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but the business which we have to do, and which we… Continue reading The Daily: 21 March 2023
The Daily: 20 March 2023
Live in the open. — Auguste Comte from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom for 20 March The Season of Renewal This year, the Vernal Equinox happens on Monday, March 20th at 5:24pm. This is, I think, the most nebulous of the solar festivals. Yes, it does mark an actual solar event, but it’s not the one… Continue reading The Daily: 20 March 2023
The Daily: 19 March 2023
As you acquire objects, and you use them, you should keep in mind that they are the products of people's work. When you damage or destroy these objects, you damage or destroy the toil, and this part of the life, of other people. — Tolstoy in his Calendar of Wisdom for 25 March Look at… Continue reading The Daily: 19 March 2023
The Daily: 17 March 2023
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you become better yourself. — Tolstoy in his Calendar of Wisdom on 17… Continue reading The Daily: 17 March 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 