Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
We are electing the next President today. I wish we lived in a world where things like Donald Trump did not happen. I wish that we lived in a world in which there was absolutely no question about the outcome of this election now that he has. I wish we lived in a world in… Continue reading The Daily: 5 November 2024
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
Um... there's a bit of language in this post. Just a heads up... This essay began a while ago now as a short response to what I have seen of a rather nasty and dismissive response to the Harris presidential campaign from certain quarters. So it is a verbal response to a verbal response to… Continue reading The Daily: 3 October 2024
The last two weeks have been an object lesson in the embarrassing subconscious bigotry of white men. First, I encountered an essayist that said he didn't read much written by women, even as he admitted that women write more than half of the printed words. He excused himself by claiming that most of the writing… Continue reading The Daily: 30 July 2024
The point is that in almost every instance of our lives, our social lives, we are, if we pay attention, in the midst of an almost constant, if subtle, caretaking. ... This caretaking is our default mode and it's always a lie that convinces us to act or believe otherwise. Always.— Ross Gay, The Book… Continue reading The Daily: 26 July 2024
I'm feeling whiney. Do we have to keep going off to jobs that, for the vast majority of us, are actively harming us in an existentially threatening manner even while we are dealing with those existential threats? Do we have to endure yet another round of weather that shouldn't be possible except for all these… Continue reading The Daily: 12 July 2024
It's politico season again. This is more than a little depressing. Two doddering old white guys, neither of whom can string together more than three words that make sense. Is this really the best we can do? I find I have a very hard time caring. Yes, I know Biden is preferable in every way… Continue reading The Daily: 2 July 2024
This past week, I was reading a book that was written by a feminist author in 2017. I suppose I had forgotten just how gutted and anxious we all felt in those days. In the pages of this book I heard echoes and almost felt those emotions again. We all thought the world would end.… Continue reading The Daily: 7 March 2024
Participatory Democracy Today is Town Meeting day in Vermont. For the uninitiated, this is the day when Vermonters pack themselves into school gyms and various meeting halls to vote on town governance for the upcoming year. Officials are elected. Laws are debated and passed. Budgets are assigned. If there are complaints or disturbances, these are… Continue reading The Daily: 5 March 2024
Participatory Democracy Today is Town Meeting day in Vermont. For the uninitiated, this is the day when Vermonters pack themselves into school gyms and various meeting halls to vote on town governance for the upcoming year. Officials are elected. Laws are debated and passed. Budgets are assigned. If there are complaints or disturbances, these are… Continue reading The Daily: 7 March 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 