Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
This past weekend so many died for the cause... How shall we hallow their names... The Wednesday Word for 28 January 2026 lambent What does lambent mean to you? Think about it. If you'd like, send me a quick poem or story... or just a few thoughts. If you really have something to say, maybe… Continue reading The Daily: 28 January 2026
We're deep in winter's grip now... in so many ways... I am trying to remain hopeful. For me, that means remaining grounded and present in my small corner of the world. But the large world insists on intruding. I'm not sure that there is anything I can do except hold up my protest sign against… Continue reading The Daily: 21 January 2026
Today is Distaff Day, the day of resumption of women’s work. Those who remember this date at all — pretty much just me and sometimes the Old Farmer’s Almanac folks — have a choice of observing it on January 7th, the day after Epiphany, or on the first Tuesday after Epiphany. My grandmother was in the latter… Continue reading The Daily: 7 January 2026
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
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
the thorn queen she waxes full in fertile grace queen of quick and fay, she reigns in mantle green and seemly face quelling fear and mortal pains eternal mother, ever maid undying wisdom in her glance deathless weird is on her laid to spin th' unceasing wheel of chance again, she comes in crown of… Continue reading The Daily: 1 May 2025
Walpurgis Night The last day of April has been a fraught time for millennia. This is a night when pranks are pulled, when spells are cast and wishes are granted, when the Good Folk pass through the veils to walk the woodlands, and when witches dance. The Beltaine fires were lit at midnight on May… Continue reading The Daily: 30 April 2025
The Greenleaf Moon is full today at 8:22pm. I haven't said much about this moon cycle because it hasn't felt very accurate this year. In the past, you could count on the sugar season ending when this moon is new and new leaves washing the bare trees in spring green. Some years there are apple… Continue reading The Daily: 12 April 2025
The Daily for 1 April 2024: a high probability of pranks
Another Brief Riposte... Can we please end the prattling on about the terrors of AI? AI is not terrifying. It is not important. It is hardly a thing in the lives of the vast majority of humans, never mind all the others. Yet people of a certain class will insist on going on and on… Continue reading The Daily: 26 March 2025
By My Solitary Hearth 