Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Found this while searching for something else that I'm pretty sure I never actually wrote... only planned to write... so it seemed serendipitous to throw this back out to the world. Especially since I am currently in a welter of planning. Present circumstances are just unsustainable and I need to figure that out. Meanwhile... here… Continue reading The Daily: 6 September 2023
The year is full of seasonal rewards and splendors, momentary splashes of perfection in time before time flows on to new climes. Winter is crystalline, it is the season of icy airs and scintillating stars. Even where there is no snow, winter is drained of color, austere and structural, as growing things slumber. Spring is… Continue reading The Daily: 5 September 2023
Labor Day Today is Labor Day in the US. This first Monday in September is the day that our country dedicated to honoring the working class after the powers that be decided that May Day, the original Labor Day, was too closely tied to the actual labor movement. A parade of organized laborers was held… Continue reading The Daily: 4 September 2023
Today is King's Cross Day. Time to board a train and head back to Hogwarts. The kids in my town started school on Wednesday. My niece in Indiana has been in class for weeks. New Mexico started in early August as well, though when my kids were in school and when I was teaching geology… Continue reading The Daily: 1 September 2023
Full Blue Blueberry Supermoon The Blueberry Moon is full tonight at 9:36pm. This is the second full moon in August, so this is a blue moon. This is also the time of year that the moon is closest to earth, so it is a supermoon, also the second one in August. As I said earlier… Continue reading The Daily: 30 August 2023
The Blueberry Moon is full tomorrow. It is the second full moon of August 2023, so it's a blue moon. I don't know where August went this year. Seems I was just writing for the full Hay Moon at the beginning of the month, and here it is, a full lunation gone. Not only has… Continue reading The Daily: 29 August 2023
So the flu was bad, the mold-cleaning process was worse, my car's corroded rear shock mounts broke, and all week it's been nice each day — while I was trapped at work — until about 4pm, at which point it rained in torrents until after midnight. I have made no progress on the groundhog or… Continue reading The Daily: 28 August 2023
The groundhog developed a taste for squash leaves while I was away last week. I assume this is either retribution, since I'm not providing more beans, or desperation, eating anything that was in that bean heaven in hopes of finding something as delicious — though there are hundreds of plants that are less spiny and… Continue reading The Daily: 21 August 2023
The Blueberry Moon was new on Wednesday. I did not see it. I can't remember the last time I saw the moon. On Wednesday it was pouring again. We had 2.5 inches of rain, according to my gauge. For comparison, an average August, back when there were such things, saw 3.4 inches of rain in… Continue reading The Daily: 18 August 2023
The Feast of the Assumption It is the Feast of the Assumption. In the Church calendar, this is the day Mother Mary was taken bodily up to heaven without the inconvenience of dying first. But in the older calendar of Europe, this was the time when it was recognized that the heat of summer was… Continue reading The Daily: 15 August 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 