Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
The Flower Moon went dark yesterday morning. Now begins the Strawberry Moon and the shift to Midsummer. In the last few years I’ve seen a wide variety of people arrive at the conclusion that what we need as a society to avert self-destruction — self and everything else, that is — is a new religion.… Continue reading The Daily: 7 June 2024
Because the universe seems to love irony, on a post in which I talk about the advancing state of breakdown in our culture, the fact that nothing works, the emailed message was somehow linked to an older post and NONE of the social media messaging went out. So here it is... again... hopefully... Apologies... The… Continue reading The Daily: 6 June 2024
Holy shit! It's June! How did that happen?!? I missed much of the last eight weeks. It began with a long bout of COVID. Then there was a new job with pretty much an entirely new learning curve to master. There was fitful garden activity, mostly of a cleaning up of disasters variety. And I… Continue reading The Daily: 3 June 2024
It's been the sort of month that pushes even climate deniers out of their comfy head-in-the-sand world. Every day there are pictures of homes and lives destroyed by extreme storms, from one end of the country to the other. In May, folks... The Northern Hemisphere is not yet heated to its summer temperatures and we're… Continue reading The Daily: 24 May 24
The Daily for 23 May 2024: The Full Flower Moon and the Matter of Britain...
The Daily for 4 April 2024: Things To Look Forward To and a Wednesday Word
The Daily for 4 April 2024: Things To Look Forward To and a Wednesday Word
Last week I finally got my car's oil changed. This is not quite the imperative that it is for a full gasoline engine, but it's still necessary. I do have to use the gas engine now and again, and I assume the electric engine uses oil for... something, I'm sure, since full electric cars seem… Continue reading The Daily: 14 May 2024
In my garden planner, I have ambitiously scribbled "plant summer squash, cukes, melons, and spinach". Now that the day is here, I am reluctant to follow my schedule. It is not freezing, and it is raining — both good for germination — but it's not warm enough for cucurbit seeds to break dormancy. This family… Continue reading The Daily: 12 May 2024
The Daily for 4 April 2024: Things To Look Forward To and a Wednesday Word
By My Solitary Hearth 