Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Poetry Month For the next few weeks, I'll be focused on writing a poem a day for National Poetry Month. So there may be some weeks when nothing much happens here. I'll put up some of the poems, but probably not all. If you're interested in more, they can be found on my All Poetry… Continue reading The Daily: 2 April 2023
Thanks to all the well wishes! I feel blessed! All ended about as well as can be expected. Everybody is home with extant body parts more or less functional again. Perhaps certain persons may even take this as a sign that it might be time to slow down a bit now that over eight decades… Continue reading The Daily: 1 April 2023
A not unexpected family emergency is making it difficult for me to write today. Posts may be suspended for a bit, depending on how this goes. — Eliza
I'm reading Dougald Hine's At Work in the Ruins. I'm not done with it so I'm not ready to discuss the book at length. I'm also not sure I need to because everybody else has already, though I am sure my views will trend in different directions than reviews I've read thus far. We'll see… Continue reading The Daily: 28 March 2023
So planting did not happen on Lady Day. The temperature dropped precipitously early in the morning of the 25th and by dawn it was 20°F. This, after being warm enough on the 24th to walk home from work without a coat, although the wind was already nippy. So, on Saturday there was solid frost in… Continue reading The Daily: 27 March 2023
The pleasures of the rich are acquired by the tears of the poor. Wealth is concentrated by human labor; usually one people produce labor, and others concentrate it. This is called the 'division of labor' by contemporary wise people. — Tolstoy in his Calendar of Wisdom for 19 March Those who own land in amounts… Continue reading The Daily: 25 March 2023
Summer Finding: an Exercise in Speculative History I have a note in my weather journal that March 23rd was observed in early Medieval Norse lands as Summer Finding. There is a corresponding Winter Finding as well, though it is moved further from the Autumn Equinox and deeper into winter. I can find no modern Pagans… Continue reading The Daily: 23 March 23
The Earth, the air, the water, and the Sun belong to all of us; they cannot be made objects of property. — after Tolstoy, Calendar of Wisdom, 23 March World Water Day: Accelerating Change World Water Day is 22 March 2023. This annual observance was organized by the United Nations in 1993 to focus attention… Continue reading The Daily: 22 March 2023
We know our life as it exists only here, in this world; therefore, if our life is to have any meaning, it should be here in this world. — Tolstoy in his Calendar of Wisdom for 21 March Life is neither suffering nor pleasure, but the business which we have to do, and which we… Continue reading The Daily: 21 March 2023
Live in the open. — Auguste Comte from Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom for 20 March The Season of Renewal This year, the Vernal Equinox happens on Monday, March 20th at 5:24pm. This is, I think, the most nebulous of the solar festivals. Yes, it does mark an actual solar event, but it’s not the one… Continue reading The Daily: 20 March 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 