Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
November snuck up on me. I get the feeling that many are feeling the same. Suddenly, it's winter, it's dark, it's past Hallowe'en. That time-change thing happens again today. Two in the morning. Hate it... I don't care which way it goes, much like my body doesn't care which time zone it's been transported to… Continue reading The Daily: 3 November 2024
Today is the new Winter Sleep Moon. But it's also the Day of the Dead. So I am pushing the new moon post off until Monday — which feels appropriate — and here is my post on the Day of the Dead. The Day of the Dead In Tolstoy’s Calendar of Wisdom, he says that… Continue reading The Daily: 2 November 2024
All Hallows: An Entanglement It's the most wonderful time of the year... Tomorrow is All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en, a new year's eve in former days with all the sweet treats, riotous good fun, and debauchery that entails. Friday is All Saints Day, All Hallows, the ancient new year festival called Samhaine, which is usually translated… Continue reading The Daily: 30 October 2024
Odds are few of you are as involved in the pagan community as I am. Though this is the fastest growing spiritual path, both in the world and in my own country, it is still a very small community. Moreover, I am in the minority in thinking that it might be good for the planet… Continue reading The Daily: 29 October 2024
Things to look forward to... going somewhere This is one that I don’t actually agree with… and that is interesting because it reveals some conflicting core values. But, no, I don’t look forward to going somewhere. Sometimes, I endure it. I never enjoy it much. And the further the travel, the less I can tolerate… Continue reading The Daily: 23 October 2024
Here is something to consider. If you do a very brief survey of headlines, you will see that today, at this very instant, most of the world is actively engaged with recovery from an "historic natural disaster" of some form or another. That is, most of the world is cleaning up after a deadly mess… Continue reading The Daily: 22 October 2024
It seems that I was unclear yesterday. Maybe it sounded like I was throwing in the towel on this writing project. Maybe it sounded like I don't believe in thinking, or that I am willing to act without thought. I don't think I said any of that... But then I wrote it and I read… Continue reading The Daily: 16 October 2024
Have you ever wondered why the titans of capitalism have not gone after mainstream environmentalists? Capitalists show no restraint when it comes to violently shutting down things that bother them — from escaped slaves to the Chipko women to the Chiapas conflict to the Water Protectors. So why are so many in the "liberal" media… Continue reading The Daily: 15 October 2024
Yom Kippur begins at sundown today. This is the holiest of holy days in the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement, or more precisely, the Day of Cleansing. As this is traditionally thought to be the day when God writes down a person’s fate for the coming year in the book of life, it is… Continue reading The Daily: 11 October 2024
There was not much progress on the orthodoxy vs orthopraxy piece over the weekend... There was not much writing at all, what with a decided lack of brain after Saturday. But I did get a couple comments and a bit of email* on yesterday's post which serve as a nice lead-in to the article that… Continue reading The Daily: 8 October 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 