Enjoy your holiday! However you celebrate! Cheers! I'll be busy. There may be more here over the weekend, but it's not looking good...
Happy Thanksgiving!
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
for 23 November 2022 The Hunter's Moon is dark today. Tomorrow begins the Winter Sleep Moon. In this culture we don't do that... sleep more in winter, that is. This is one of the things my body has never made peace with. I am not on the work-day sleep schedule at the best of times.… Continue reading The Daily
The Daily
for 22 November 2022 If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it. — Shakespeare, Twelfth Night November 22nd is St Cecilia’s Day. Nothing of her story bears repeating, but through it she became the patron saint of musicians. And maybe there is more in that story of a feisty… Continue reading The Daily
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for 21 November 2022 There is no deed in this life so impossible that you cannot do it. Your whole life should be lived as an heroic deed. — from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom for 21 November I don't know about heroic, but I wanted to take a moment to say that doing this de-growth… Continue reading The Daily
The Daily
20 November 2022 Set garlike and pease saint Edmund to please 20 November is the Feast of St Edmund the Martyr. I'm not sure when this quip, found in the Oxford Book of Days (Blackburn & Holford-Strevens, Oxford, 2000), was current. From the spelling, I would guess 15th or 16th century. Perhaps earlier, as Edmund's… Continue reading The Daily
The Daily
19 November 2022 This weather is not doing things by half, I'll give it that. We went from the longest growing season on record — 181 days, theoretically long enough to grow even protracted growing season veg like okra — with the official first frost date ringing in at 28 October, to... well, there's a… Continue reading The Daily
Owning Earth
I've always been confused by the idea that there is an economy that is not land-based. Everything comes from the Earth, from the air that we breathe to every single resource we toss into our toolkit. But even a narrow interpretation of the land economy as farming makes no sense. There is no other economy.… Continue reading Owning Earth
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17 November 2022 First, here are some pictures of snow from our first storm of the season. These were taken Wednesday morning before it was done dumping. Veg beds under snow Garden path before shovels Perennial beds under snow Flocked arborvitae The inevitable closing of the road out of my neighborhood... only temporary, but still...… Continue reading The Daily
The Daily
16 November 2022 I learned a fun medical thing today. Once COVID has had its way with your internal organs, apparently any infection that causes inflammation can trigger echoes of COVID. I started to think that this might be the case when I had strep and it felt disturbingly like the COVID I'd just shaken… Continue reading The Daily
The Daily
15 November 2022 Here we are half-way through November. You what that means? (Apart from we're half-way through November!!!) It's time to plant those amaryllis bulbs if you want blooms for the holidays. Most will need about six weeks to flower. Place the bulbs in rich soil with only about one third of the bulb… Continue reading The Daily
By My Solitary Hearth 