Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Yesterday was the Republican Roman festival of Lux Mundi. Friday is the feast day of Santa Lucia. This is a time for light. Lux Mundi translates into "the light of the world". This day honored Libertas, the bringer of light. Libertas was the personification of freedom, metaphorical light rather than actual light, and she is… Continue reading The Daily: 11 December 2024
Thanksgiving at Plymouth, oil on canvas by Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, 1925 (An early rendition of How Many Things Are Wrong with this Picture) And then there's this... which gets a fairly comprehensive critique here.. to which I would add that nobody dressed like this in early 17th century New England. Nor were stone houses much… Continue reading The Daily: 27 November 2024
It's supposed to snow this week. We have had a few days of flurries, which is sort like flirting with winter; but we've not had Snow yet. That is what is coming. This is one of those forecasts that keeps oscillating between rain and snow, just on the border of freezing. There is no question… Continue reading The Daily: 20 November 2024
So last week happened... It was not entirely a surprise; however, it still left most of us in a state of enraged shock for many days. But... While Trump et al have terrifying new capacities for causing harm, we have survived this once and I'm pretty sure we will survive again. As people. I am… Continue reading The Daily: 13 November 2024
I am changing Wednesdays again. I have abandoned the contest on All Poetry because I am not enjoying it. Plain and simple. There is an increasing amount of what I don't like about the world on that medium, as there is everywhere accessed by a keyboard and screen. There is also less, much less, good… Continue reading The Daily: 6 November 2024
Things to look forward to... going somewhere This is one that I don’t actually agree with… and that is interesting because it reveals some conflicting core values. But, no, I don’t look forward to going somewhere. Sometimes, I endure it. I never enjoy it much. And the further the travel, the less I can tolerate… Continue reading The Daily: 23 October 2024
It seems that I was unclear yesterday. Maybe it sounded like I was throwing in the towel on this writing project. Maybe it sounded like I don't believe in thinking, or that I am willing to act without thought. I don't think I said any of that... But then I wrote it and I read… Continue reading The Daily: 16 October 2024
I didn't get around to writing today. There was no lunch hour. But then as I was eating dinner, I was listening to Suzanne Simard on The Great Simplification. And... well... she's just one of the most interesting people on the planet! So I decided to re-post my [glowing fan-girl] review of her book, Finding… Continue reading The Daily: 9 October 2024
Things to look forward to... reading a favorite book... again Movies based on books often have me yearning to repeat reading the book. Most movies do not touch me the way printed words do. I miss the nuance and the imagining. Books are more intimate conversations with a story and with a storyteller. So... We… Continue reading The Daily: 2 October 2024
Things to look forward to... dinner I don't eat lunch. Or rather, I don't eat both breakfast and lunch. On days when I am left to my own biorhythms, I eat the first meal of the day around noon and a smaller meal in the evening. But on weekdays, or days when I have to… Continue reading The Daily: 25 September 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 