Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Things to look forward to... reading a favorite book... again Movies based on books often have me yearning to repeat reading the book. Most movies do not touch me the way printed words do. I miss the nuance and the imagining. Books are more intimate conversations with a story and with a storyteller. So... We… Continue reading The Daily: 2 October 2024
I've been reading Ross Gay for many weeks now. First The Book of Delights and now The Book of (More) Delights. One delight each morning starts my day off right. In the early essays of More Delights, Ross is finding delight in Vermont. (I imagine that he was writing these essays down at Middlebury College… Continue reading The Daily: 26 September 2024
I have been working on an essay that should have been posted today. It deals with belief and practice, orthodoxy vs orthopraxy. We have too much of the former and almost none of the latter. As you can imagine, I have much to say on this. The essay is up to 5300 words. In addition… Continue reading The Daily: 24 September 24
Things to look forward to... receiving a letter My son and my father have taken to writing each other physical letters. I know this because they both call or text me to report on the letters they have sent and received. They are both transformed by this project that started on a whim, with my… Continue reading The Daily: 11 September 2024
Things to look forward to... growing your own food While I don't believe anyone can grow all their own food, most everyone can grow some of what they eat. And this is always a delight! A radish, pulled from the cold ground in the springtime. A cucumber slid from the vine. A pile of potatoes… Continue reading The Daily: 4 September 2024
The Blueberry Moon went dark at 9:56pm last night. Today, the sickle Harvest Moon follows the sun into the western horizon. The Harvest Moon is full on 17 September at 10:34pm. Moonrise so close to the full will be a lovely sight, but at its fullest it will be dimmed. This year in North America… Continue reading The Daily: 3 September 2024
Today is Labor Day in the US. This first Monday in September is the day that our country dedicated to honoring the working classes 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 in New… Continue reading The Daily: 2 September 2024
You gotta love the energy-economics people. They really are trying so hard to understand why whatever has propelled this system for several centuries suddenly no longer works. They rightly deduce that a program of ever-increasing material use is not going to last long on a finite planet, nor in a finite universe, for that matter.… Continue reading The Daily: 30 August 2024
Last night, the waxing gibbous moon, just a few days from full, rose red over my town and stayed rusty all night. There is no eclipse on a gibbous moon. We had no weather to speak of. There is no healthy reason for a red moon over Vermont. The reason is terrifying. My town, many… Continue reading The Daily: 16 August 2024
This is just a short complaint. If you're in a good mood, stop reading. For several weeks now, my whole state has been dealing with advanced externalities. A couple towns might just be wiped off the map after this. My town has a sandbag budget now, along with constant employment for anyone who can drive… Continue reading The Daily: 13 August 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 