Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Earth Day Today is Earth Day. Would that that actually meant something... Earth Day was created in 1970 as a direct political challenge. Wisconsin’s Senator Gaylord Nelson wanted the US government to do what government is supposed to do — protect its people and lands from rapacious business. He created Earth Day and organized the first demonstrations… Continue reading The Daily: 22 April 2026
The Sap Moon went dark yesterday at 7:52am. Today begins the Greening Moon. I have not written much about this lunation. Usually I am very busy in April because of Poetry Month with its various poetry readings and, to a lesser extent, because the garden is becoming demanding during this moon of leafing out. I'm… Continue reading The Daily: 18 April 2026
In light of Trump's Good Friday lunch speech in which he declared that the federal government "can't do child care" and all these "individual things" like Medicare and health care, in which he explicitly said that the only thing the feds should be funding is the military, I decided to take him up on that...… Continue reading The Daily: 15 April 2026
Winter has somewhat relented. The snow is gone. We've had showers of just plain rain, not snow or sleet, and several days with the sun shining. At least for a few hours. But it is not warm. Sunday morning the weather forecast was for 60s (°F) and rain; we woke to 27°F and weak sunlight… Continue reading The Daily: 13 April 2026
And so the question is... is this going to be a sort of epic TACO Tuesday?... or is the cabal of amoral, aggressive manbabies led by an increasingly humiliated and demented sociopath going to drop nuclear weapons on a "whole country" at prime time tonight? Any way you slice it, the current world order is… Continue reading The Daily: 7 April 2026
There seems to be some struggle to enumerate the ways in which closing the Strait of Hormuz affects an average person anywhere in the world, but particularly within the historically comfortably insulated United States. This stems from our broad and long-standing ignorance of how stuff gets to us. This is such a deep problem that… Continue reading The Daily: 6 April 2026
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
By My Solitary Hearth 