Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Labor Day Today is Labor Day in the US. This first Monday in September is the day that our country dedicated to honoring the working class after the powers that be decided that May Day, the original Labor Day, was too closely tied to the actual labor movement. A parade of organized laborers was held… Continue reading The Daily: 4 September 2023
So the flu was bad, the mold-cleaning process was worse, my car's corroded rear shock mounts broke, and all week it's been nice each day — while I was trapped at work — until about 4pm, at which point it rained in torrents until after midnight. I have made no progress on the groundhog or… Continue reading The Daily: 28 August 2023
The groundhog developed a taste for squash leaves while I was away last week. I assume this is either retribution, since I'm not providing more beans, or desperation, eating anything that was in that bean heaven in hopes of finding something as delicious — though there are hundreds of plants that are less spiny and… Continue reading The Daily: 21 August 2023
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 2023
It’s getting to that point of the year when I would really like to have a four-day workweek, especially since I spend so much of my workday doing not much of anything productive. Okay, so maybe it’s all my workday that is not productive. I’m fairly sure that if everything I do all day would… Continue reading The Daily: 14 August 2023
The break in summer heat continues this week, though there is still not much break in the rain. We have almost had the entire average August precipitation in the first week. We will undoubtedly pass average by the end of this week and probably blaze right on to the average for an entire summer. Given… Continue reading The Daily: 7 August 2023
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 2023
In many northern communities, July is a hungry month. The spring flush of greens and quick-growing roots like radishes and beets may still be trickling out of the garden, but most have bolted and run to seed. However, even those that remain are long on fiber and short on calories, and little of the spring… Continue reading The Daily: 30 July 2023
Jesus at the Home of Martha and Maryby Harold Copping (1927) July 29th is the feast day of St Martha. Martha was the sister of Mary of Bethany and Lazarus. In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus visits the house of the two sisters. Mary sits and listens to the teachings of Jesus, but Martha 'was… Continue reading The Daily: 29 July 2023
I took large chunks of the weekend — in which I could not do much vigorous work outside for all the Canadian smoke and could not write much for all the bugs in this machine — to clean up my house. (I think it's actually not this machine but something iCloud-derived because it's affecting my… Continue reading The Daily: 24 July 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 