Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
It’s raining and 45°F, and I have to walk half a block between my house and my garage. I’ve been awake since 3am and I’m gritty eyed with exhaustion. My arthritis and heart problems are both exacerbated by the short sleep and the cold damp so that everything aches. I have a pile of laundry… Continue reading The Daily: 24 October 2025
It is the time of year when I am increasingly compelled to define my path. What does a witch do? What does a witch believe? What does it mean to be a witch? I find that the definition often leads to more words in need of definition, bound up as they are with the world… Continue reading The Daily: 23 October 2025
The Harvest Moon west dark yesterday at 8:25am my time. Today, begins the 13th and final moon in my annual round, the Hunter's Moon. Many folks seem to think this moon is named for the hunting season. This is neither temporally nor mythically correct. It is not yet hunting season, if by hunt you mean… Continue reading The Daily: 22 October 2025
The Harvest Moon goes dark today at 8:25am. So, tonight there will be no moonlight to wash out the Orionid Meteor Shower which hit its peak intensity at 2am this morning but will still be going strong until the 23rd. You may still be able to see these meteors as late as the 26th. This… Continue reading The Daily: 21 October 2025
Friday, I got my first heating oil delivery of the year. It was a bit of an ouch... but necessary. It is definitely getting into furnace weather. (I turned it on a week or so ago.) It was 28°F Saturday morning. There was dazzling frost on the State House lawn where the No Kings rally… Continue reading The Daily: 20 October 2025
We often talk about resource depletion in terms of supply. Except supply is not really depleting, is it. The Earth has the supplies. The absolute amount of oil in the Earth’s crust is vast. Same for critical minerals like iron and copper. The problem is that most of it is inaccessible, and not just at… Continue reading The Daily: 17 October 2025
We had our first frost last Friday with a sustained low of around 26°F that lasted half the night. Most of the veg garden died. Some of the trees finally decided to get going on fall, those that aren’t already bare, that is. The honey locust is dotted with gold droplets amongst the green. The… Continue reading The Daily: 16 October 2025
Ever since reading Becoming Native to This Place by Wes Jackson back in the late 1990s, I have sought to define what that means for me. Wes defines it mostly in terms of food production, but there are also elements of spirituality and philosophy even as he writes about farming. Food is certainly the central… Continue reading The Daily: 15 October 2025
Today is Indigenous Peoples's Day in my part of the world. It is actually a holiday in my office, so I'm in the kitchen rather than at my desk. For me, today is Apple Day... making apple-tomato chutney, applesauce, apple butter and probably some apple bread... because I went to Burtt's yesterday. But I'm not… Continue reading The Daily: 13 October 2025
As you can see, I've pulled this out of the compost heap and brushed it off. Mostly as a way to force me to write poetry. Because I have become lax on that... and that makes me sad... I also restarted the AllPoetry Wednesday Word contest. But this time I'm keeping the rewards to the… Continue reading The Daily: 8 October 2025
By My Solitary Hearth 