Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
The goldenrods began blooming this week, the potatoes are starting to yellow around the edges, and the cucurbits are getting unruly. If that isn't enough evidence of a sea change, the weather here in central Vermont has been heavenly. We've been treated to a growing strand of kind blue days that open in cool fog… Continue reading The Daily: 29 July 2024
Today at 6:17am the Hay Moon was full, so tonight's moonrise is the closest to full. This ninth moon of the year is also called the Corn Moon. Though I have already written off summer and moved right on to fall, today the season of Midsummer shifts to Lughnasadh, fair season, gathering season, a time… Continue reading The Daily: 21 July 2024
Things to look forward to... working up a sweat Okay, maybe I don't look forward to working up a sweat. In fact, I don't particularly like sweating at all. But I do enjoy working up a sweat. More precisely, I love the loose-muscled calm that descends on my body after I've stopped working up a… Continue reading The Daily: 17 July 2024
Things to look forward to... falling in love I'm fairly certain Sophie's view of love is different from mine. Her short exposition on love mostly focuses on finding human sexual love later in life. I am all for human love, I just don't have much use for it. Or maybe it doesn't have much use… Continue reading The Daily: 10 July 2024
Things to look forward to... visiting a museum The Dog Days begin today. This is when Sol and Sirius shine together all day long, creating blast-furnace heat. Or maybe that's just carbon... Either way, it is the hottest time of the year in northern climes. My mother keeps calling to tell me the latest and… Continue reading The Daily: 3 July 2024
Every time Paul Bunyan Day rolls around I am struck anew by the realization that there are quite a large number of appallingly stupid heroes and male deities in EuroWestern traditions. This probably reflects our ideals in ways that we perhaps need to analyze. Or maybe develop another whole 'nother branch of psychology to deal… Continue reading The Daily: 29 June 2024
Paul Bunyan Day Paul Bunyan statue in Bangor, Maine. (Wikipedia) It’s that special day in June again. No, not that solstice thing. No, forget graduation. No, not the wedding thing. It’s Paul Bunyan Day! A day to celebrate an absolute idiot who blundered through the north woods, wearing plaid flannel, leading a bull named Babe,… Continue reading The Daily: 28 June 2024
The eighth moon in my calendar is the Strawberry Moon. It is new between 22 May and 19 June, full between 5 June and 3 July. This year the Strawberry Moon is full tonight at 9:08pm here in the Eastern Time Zone. This is not something that happens on local time. The moon is full at the exact… Continue reading The Daily: 21 June 2024
June 15th, the Ides of June, was the last day of Vestalia. With great ceremony, the sanctuary of Vesta was cleansed and closed to the public for another year, the sustaining Vestal hearth-flame hidden behind walls that no man was allowed to pass. This is a slack time, a time when heat is intolerable and… Continue reading The Daily: 15 June 2024
The Daily for 23 May 2024: The Full Flower Moon and the Matter of Britain...
By My Solitary Hearth 