Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
We're going to try this thing again. I'm going to toss a brief idea out there and see what responses come back. Maybe the response is merely that someone thinks about something differently, and that is just fine. But maybe there can be some discussion... though it is harder to negotiate the comments on WordPress… Continue reading The Daily: 22 January 2025
I have been on Starhawk's Earth Activism weblist for, I think, as long as she's had it. I've followed her writings for my entire adult life. The Spiral Dance, her influential first book (and, to my mind, still her best) was published in 1979, not far from 50 years ago. (How's that for making you… Continue reading The Daily: 21 January 2025
It is Epiphany, 6 January, the close of the Christmas season and the beginning of mundane time, a shift to Imbolg and the hope of spring — after we, hopefully, survive the worst of the winter weather. This is the date the Catholic Church assigned to the arrival of the Magi and also, later, the… Continue reading The Daily: 6 January 2025
Tonight is Twelfth Night, the last night of Christmas and the long night before Epiphany, the festival of the Wise Men. This is the night when all the drummers show up, along with a veritable cacophony of birds; a party of lords, ladies and colorful others; and quite a few cows. I'm not sure I… Continue reading The Daily: 5 January 2025
New Year's Day is misplaced. This date has no real significance. It is tied to nothing in the solar year nor in the cultural year. It is historically wrong. When the Romans created these two new months in their calendar, January and February, and set their state calendars to begin on 1 January, that date… Continue reading The Daily: 1 January 2025
I'm on too many mailing lists again. Every year around this time, I realize that I've been inadvertently subscribed to dozens of notifications, most of which I never open. I notice this at the end of December because every last one of them is asking for money. Also, every last one of them apparently feels… Continue reading The Daily: 31 December 2024
Today, the Midwinter Moon goes dark. In my part of the world, the latest sunrises, 7:25am, began yesterday in a day of such dense fog and cold drizzle it was hard to tell when the sun was in the sky. The days are already about five minutes longer than the shortest day, and the sun… Continue reading The Daily: 30 December 2024
Saturnalia Saturnalia begins today. This year Saturn is sharing the night sky with the much brighter upstart planetary deities, Venus and Jupiter; but Saturn is still brighter than any star in the sky, shining to the south for several hours after sunset. In my part of the world, the earliest sunsets, 4:11pm have already passed… Continue reading The Daily: 17 December 2024
Yesterday was the Republican Roman festival of Lux Mundi. Friday is the feast day of Santa Lucia. This is a time for light. Lux Mundi translates into "the light of the world". This day honored Libertas, the bringer of light. Libertas was the personification of freedom, metaphorical light rather than actual light, and she is… Continue reading The Daily: 11 December 2024
The intrusion of AI into weather prognostication is a fairly accurate measure of just how stupid our supposed created intelligence is. I know you've seen the results. I hear complaints constantly, often qualified with a "well, they never do get it right" as though to reassure ourselves that weather forecasting has always been inadequate and… Continue reading The Daily: 9 December 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 