Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
This week, Jon Stewart called Trump the Supreme Misleader. This is an essay on why I believe that to be apt. I am still finding that it is very difficult to write about this political moment. In fact, it’s not just me… I heard Bill Kristol complaining about the Monday article he had written being… Continue reading The Daily: 27 March 2026
Tomorrow is Lady Day. Inasmuch as I celebrate the start of a new gardening year, tomorrow is it. March 25th was also the de facto New Year's Day for most of Roman history and remained a new year celebration up until the Enlightenment in many cultures derived from Rome. So tonight is New Year's Eve.… Continue reading The Daily: 24 March 2026
Here is some gentle advice... Stop wearing yourself out in trying to apply reasonableness to anything Trump does, up to and including prosecuting war on another sovereign nation. Reason has nothing to do with it. This is a drooling, ignorant human who has lived a cushioned and narcissistic life without consequences or responsibility. He has… Continue reading The Daily: 6 March 2026
World Wildlife Day March 3rd is the UN's World Wildlife Day. This is the day that the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora was signed in 1973. So on 20 December 2013 at the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, March 3 was declared United Nations World… Continue reading The Daily: 3 March 2026
What can you even say about this past week... On Tuesday, the orange one delivered the longest hate speech in the history of the State of the Union addresses in which everyone from Democrats to trans people to Somalis in Minneapolis were vilified with blatant lies and we learned that inflation is coming down (it… Continue reading The Daily: 2 March 2026
Snow Moon The Wolf Moon went dark yesterday at 7:01am. Both Mardi Gras and Chinese New Year, with all their riotous color and spark, took place last night. Today, the Snow Moon, the fourth moon in my lunar year, is new. In my calendar, this is the season of Early Spring, the long wait of… Continue reading The Daily: 18 February 2026
Like many people, I find the American version of Valentine’s Day and the saccharine and monochromatic view of love it promotes to be repulsive. In my younger days I assumed the whole farce was invented by the greeting card and gifting industry, along with the rise of all manner of fake holidays intended to get… Continue reading The Daily: 14 February 2026
I’ve been rereading some of my books on Buddhism lately, some popular culture, a bit of fringe, and one book of the actual sutras. And I’ve been thinking… (I know, bad…) I still just can’t quite get on board with no-form. It feels nihilist. It also denies our basic experience of living, which may, in… Continue reading The Daily: 12 February 2026
Last year was hard on this old body. I am learning that meningitis, like Lyme disease and long COVID and all the various herpes viruses, is another one of those things that never completely goes away. The inflammation can flare up whenever you are feeling run down, and it leaves you feeling run down and… Continue reading The Daily: 9 February 2026
About three weeks ago, I finished reading Enshitification (which, by the way, is required reading...) and had the oddest feeling that I needed to clean up my "data" out there in the world. I have a few social media sites. I had credit cards stored at a few places. And I had an ancient Amazon… Continue reading The Daily: 4 February 2026
By My Solitary Hearth 