Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Notes upon finishing Is a River Alive... Spoiler alert! Please, don't read any further if you want to read the book... Also, this is kinda rough... still haven't completely lassoed the brain back into coherence... consider this essay poetry... because that's my natural language... To my mind, the titular question, Is a River Alive, remains… Continue reading The Daily: 24 July 2025
If Candlemas be bright and clear there'll be two winters in the year. — traditional adage from Scotland Of Candles and Divinatory Beasts There are many weather marking days throughout the year. Candlemas, falling on 2 February, was the day that our ancestors began to get nervous about the spring. A fine Candlemas portends a… Continue reading The Daily: 2 February 2025
“We’ll stop them,” Collum said. “They’ve always invaded and we’ve always stopped them. There has to be a way.” “Not this time,” Morgan said. “Because they’re not invading.” “Well, what the hell do you call it?!” “Emigrating,” Morgan said. “Fleeing. They can’t stay in Saxony. The sea there is rising and flooding their lands, and… Continue reading The Daily: 14 November 2024
I didn't get around to writing today. There was no lunch hour. But then as I was eating dinner, I was listening to Suzanne Simard on The Great Simplification. And... well... she's just one of the most interesting people on the planet! So I decided to re-post my [glowing fan-girl] review of her book, Finding… Continue reading The Daily: 9 October 2024
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
Juneteenth Today is Juneteenth. Specifically, today is the 159th anniversary of the reading of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger. This was the order which served as the Texas version of the Emancipation Proclamation, a full two years after President Lincoln and the federal government (such as it was) freed all slaves.… Continue reading The Daily: 19 June 2024
I was talking about things that underpin our worldview yesterday. Naturally, there were responses. In reading and thinking about those responses, I discovered that I didn't make a few things more explicit. These are the frames on my own worldview, so I don't talk about them as much as I should. To be honest, that… Continue reading The Daily: 19 April 2024
Spoiler alert: I am talking about books in this essay. One is non-fiction and I don't think that revealing its contents will ruin the reading experience for anyone else. The other book, however, is a novel; surprise is essential to the narrative experience. I tried to talk about the main lesson in this story without… Continue reading The Daily: 18 April 2024
If Candlemas be bright and clear there'll be two winters in the year. — traditional adage from Scotland Of Candles and Divinatory Beasts There are many weather marking days throughout the year. Candlemas, falling on 2 February, was the day that our ancestors began to get nervous about the spring. A fine Candlemas portends a… Continue reading The Daily: 2 February 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 