Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
A Red-Letter Day April 25th is a complicated date. It is St Mark’s Day, which is honored with a wide variety of celebrations; and it is Robigalia, an ancient Roman festival intended to propitiate the god — or demon — of wheat rust and thus ensure a good harvest. These disparate themes may actually be… Continue reading The Daily: 25 April 2023
When we learn of spinning galaxies filled with billions of stars, how can we believe that one country is more important than another? Why do we even have countries at all? We are riding a living planet through space, and we are all on the same ride together. — Akiva Silver, Trees of Power (2019,… Continue reading The Daily: 20 April 2023
If you leave a man on land which is someone else's property and tell him he is a completely free man and can work for himself, it's as if you drop him in the middle of the Atlantic and tell him he is free to go ashore. — Henry George in Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom… Continue reading The Daily: 19 April 2023
I am not fond of spring. Of course, I like the warmth and the end of shoveling snow. I love flowers and birdsong. Bees are rather funny when they first waken in the springtime. I don't even mind the lengthening days, though I do wish the neighborhood robins would sleep in on the weekends. At… Continue reading The Daily: 18 April 2023
April 15th is Tax Day for the United States. In most years taxes are due on this date, though exceptions are made for weekends and recently COVID seems to have added on extra days. In 2023, individual tax returns must be filed by Tuesday, April 18th. I don't know anyone who puts it off that… Continue reading The Daily: 15 April 2023
The fifth moon of my solar year is the Sap Moon. It is new between 24 February and 24 March, full between 10 March and 7 April. This is a period of rapid change. The Sap Moon rarely sees the same weather from year to year. When it’s early in the solar calendar, this month is… Continue reading The Daily: 6 April 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
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 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
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
By My Solitary Hearth 