Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
It's that time of year when I have to remind myself to eat... at least once a day. I'm just not that hungry in the late winter, especially in the morning. Breakfast is right out. Dinner is more of a snack. And there are some days when I am getting ready to brush my teeth… Continue reading The Daily: 27 January 2025
Something about technology that doesn’t work properly just sets me off. I know I’m overreacting, but that doesn’t stop me. I can fume about it for hours, and even for days if it’s not resolved. I just expect things to work, or to be simple to correct when they don’t. When you buy something, I’ve… Continue reading The Daily: 24 January 2025
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
Today, we are not talking about the travesty of an inauguration that is happening somewhat south of here. I am doing my utmost to draw lines around my world and stay within those lines. I am not paying attention to things that I can't change and that don't truly affect me directly anyway. On that… Continue reading The Daily: 20 January 2025
It's been a week... And I am trying to figure out how to use WordPress in its "new and improved" format. So here are some photos to make you happy. As you might have guessed, these are all from Brooklyn Botanic Gardens holiday lights. I figure this is more needed now than in December. Though...… Continue reading The Daily: 17 January 2025
In my town, it has snowed every day but one in 2025, not that you'd know it by looking at the weather forecast, nor the officially "recorded" conditions. For example, yesterday it was supposed to be sunny with a high of 34°F. I thought I might finally be able to shovel my walk and maybe… Continue reading The Daily: 14 January 2025
Plough Monday Plough Monday is an ancient rustic holiday that became attached to the Christmas holiday tradition. Plough Monday may trace its descent back to the Roman Compitalia, celebrated by slaves when plowing was over. But by the mid-15th century it became the traditional end to the Christmas season, the end of the season of… Continue reading The Daily: 13 January 2025
Distaff Day, or St. Distaff’s Day, is an obscure and faded custom that has rather a bit more weight behind it that one might expect. The day is observed most often on January 7th, the day after Epiphany, the last day of the winter holidays. Less commonly, Distaff Day falls on the first Tuesday after Epiphany, being known as Distaff Tuesday in keeping with Plough Monday.
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
By My Solitary Hearth 