Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
On the “worst inventions of mankind”… Recently, there has been a flurry of essays and lists naming the worst tools and ideas of humanity. This seems to be a cyclical thing, periodically popping up in bursts from all directions and listing all sorts of things, though notably never the driver behind bad inventing. There are… Continue reading The Daily: 12 September 2025
On the solstice, I began reading Robert Macfarlane’s book Is a River Alive? (seemed appropriate) which is already as elegiac and reverential as anything he has produced. Lauds can not do justice. However, there is a fundamental logical error that has not been addressed in this book yet (I am not that far in at… Continue reading The Daily: 27 June 2025
Have you ever wondered why the titans of capitalism have not gone after mainstream environmentalists? Capitalists show no restraint when it comes to violently shutting down things that bother them — from escaped slaves to the Chipko women to the Chiapas conflict to the Water Protectors. So why are so many in the "liberal" media… Continue reading The Daily: 15 October 2024
Yom Kippur begins at sundown today. This is the holiest of holy days in the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement, or more precisely, the Day of Cleansing. As this is traditionally thought to be the day when God writes down a person’s fate for the coming year in the book of life, it is… Continue reading The Daily: 11 October 2024
I need to explain something. Because there seems to be quite a bit of explication directed at my writing. Well, truly, aimed at me. Those who are explaining have normally not read what I’ve written, never mind all that I’ve read and researched on each essay topic. That is to say the explainers frequently do… Continue reading A Short Riposte
By My Solitary Hearth 