Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
The Hunter's Moon is full on Saturday at 4:24pm. This is the 13th and last lunation of the luna-solar year. It can be full from October 28th to November 14th, so you can see that the months have shifted relative to the solar-based 12-month calendar. For most of the year, moons have been falling right… Continue reading The Daily: 25 October 2023
Magic as Wisdom I am an odd witch. Most would not consider me one at all. This is just fine with me, because most witches in history have not named themselves in that manner either, and not merely because it was rather bad for one’s health to claim the title. Most simply had no use… Continue reading The Daily: 24 October 2023
A Happy Mistake This weekend I discovered that if you accidentally pick up a quart of buttermilk and use that to make yogurt, you get a delicious cottage cheese and lots of whey. The funny thing about this mistake is that the kid at the check-out spent a long time trying to figure out how… Continue reading The Daily: 23 October 23
Where are all the people? My mail is sporadic. Before the flood, there were days now and then in which the box was inexplicably bare — there should be something every day because my newspaper is delivered through US Post. Which is questionable in and of itself. How much are the publishers paying for that… Continue reading The Daily: 20 October 2023
I have another book recommendation. This one will not keep you up until 3am, unless you get to page 161 and decide that you must read it all over again. As one does. Kayaking with Lambs is a collection of essays mostly pulled from Brian Miller's richly authentic farm journal, A South Roane Agrarian, where… Continue reading The Daily: 19 October 2023
I will be making a few changes to this website again. Some are actual new things. Probably most will be resurrections of older things. Today, I'm bringing back the Wednesday Word. This is no longer a Twitter phenomenon because Twitter itself is not much of a phenomenon now. In fact, before the Musk Ox bought… Continue reading The Daily: 18 October 2023
There is still no frost. In all the horrible news of the last ten days or so, this is what is troubling me right now. It is not that I am unaffected by the lurid headlines. I am sickened and disgusted and enraged and so very tired of idiots with large guns and larger egos… Continue reading The Daily: 17 October 2023
Ordinary Magic The 13th moon of the wheel of the year, theHunter's Moon, was new yesterday. Halloween, All Hallow’s, and the Day of the Dead — and Bonfire Night, if one is so inclined — are fast approaching, and, with these holy days, my calendar year is drawing to a close. It is cool and… Continue reading The Daily: 16 October 2023
Friday the 13th Today is judged unlucky by many. It is the weekday named for the goddess, Frigg, mother and matron of the Norse. She is wife to Odin, the wanderer and all-father in the Nordic pantheon. She is mother to Baldur, the golden summer lord who dies from a dart of mistletoe wielded by… Continue reading The Daily: 13 October 2023
The Old Farmer's Almanac says today is National Farmer's Day. I think this ought to be the bank holiday we celebrate in October, maybe in conjunction with Indigenous Peoples' Day — because farming for food is largely an indigenous project. (As opposed to farming for wealth, which is a colonizer project.) I have my differences… Continue reading The Daily: 12 October 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 