Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
We throw a lot of words around without giving much thought to meaning or physical manifestation. We talk about systems, iteration, interdependence, feedback. We slap these labels on all manner of things, but we don’t really consider the real-world implications. For example, we talk about economic systems, the interrelated networks of processes and infrastructures used… Continue reading Negative Feedback
for 3 December 2022 While listening to Nate Hagens talk with Betsy Taylor (another newbie Vermonter!) about "nature based solutions" I finally realized why I am not fond of podcasts. To begin with, I don't generally like listening to talk media because most of it is just horrible in all sorts of sociopathic and stupid… Continue reading The Daily
Every time you wake up and ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?" remember that, when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it. — Indian Proverb found in Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom for 21 November Can I just say that I really… Continue reading The Deadly Weight of the Series
for 29 November 2022 Beware of those who want to convince you that it is impossible to strive for good just because it is impossible to reach perfection. — John Ruskin in Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom, 26 November I spent Thanksgiving with millennial New Yorkers, my son's friends and co-workers. A nicer, more enthusiastic group… Continue reading The Daily
In the continuing saga of plunder and extortion that is life in the 21st century... Son#1 and I went down to visit Son#2 and his new wife for a Thanksgiving with his "caravan of exalted, super-twinkly, international friends." (Name that quote and you can probably figure out where I was...) This was a long-planned trip.… Continue reading An….d We’re Back…
19 November 2022 This weather is not doing things by half, I'll give it that. We went from the longest growing season on record — 181 days, theoretically long enough to grow even protracted growing season veg like okra — with the official first frost date ringing in at 28 October, to... well, there's a… Continue reading The Daily
I've always been confused by the idea that there is an economy that is not land-based. Everything comes from the Earth, from the air that we breathe to every single resource we toss into our toolkit. But even a narrow interpretation of the land economy as farming makes no sense. There is no other economy.… Continue reading Owning Earth
17 November 2022 First, here are some pictures of snow from our first storm of the season. These were taken Wednesday morning before it was done dumping. Veg beds under snow Garden path before shovels Perennial beds under snow Flocked arborvitae The inevitable closing of the road out of my neighborhood... only temporary, but still...… Continue reading The Daily
Welcome to The Daily Daley! It may not prove to be daily, but it will certainly take up the slack that social media's implosion is creating in my writing life. Here will be snippets of weather, of gardening and cooking, of myth and folklore and history. Here will be my equivalent of funny cat pictures… Continue reading The Daily, 13 November 22
On November 11th at 11 in the morning, we practice a moment of silence for two minutes to remember the day we reached an accord and agreed to lay down arms after the brutality of World War 1. A century ago we stopped fighting. Soldiers came home. It was a time very like this. A… Continue reading Martinmas
By My Solitary Hearth 