Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
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
I had a hell of a day... so I wrote kids' poetry instead of what I had planned. Here is a sample: the path Autumn Forest by William Trost Richards (1833-1905) Richards painted in my neck of the woods in the 19th century. He may have known the family whose heiress daughter had my house… Continue reading The Daily: 18 September 2024
Things to look forward to... receiving a letter My son and my father have taken to writing each other physical letters. I know this because they both call or text me to report on the letters they have sent and received. They are both transformed by this project that started on a whim, with my… Continue reading The Daily: 11 September 2024
Things to look forward to... growing your own food While I don't believe anyone can grow all their own food, most everyone can grow some of what they eat. And this is always a delight! A radish, pulled from the cold ground in the springtime. A cucumber slid from the vine. A pile of potatoes… Continue reading The Daily: 4 September 2024
Things to look forward to... feeding the birds This time of year, when the day starts dark with fog and ends in warm sunshine, the birds are starting to think about migration. In days when we still had swallows, they were already leaving in late August. After a summer of darting jet arrowheads swooping and… Continue reading The Daily: 28 August 2024
Things to look forward to... getting things done The weeds on the house side of the road had gotten ahead of me. I have been pulling crabgrass and wild clematis out of the veg garden a little every day. I also laid down more cardboard between the beds and then covered that with mulch. This… Continue reading The Daily: 21 August 2024
Things to look forward to... a full moon I did my graduate work amid people who studied bits of foreign places like comets, exploded planets, asteroids, and moons. I have held pieces of our satellite moon in my hand and looked at the structure of its minerals through powerful lenses. My own work was focused… Continue reading The Daily: 14 August 2024
So... I said I would have a real stroke when the emergency room bill came in... Well, it arrived today. I vastly underestimated it. I almost vomited. It was so outrageous I had to share... because I'm not the only one... The grand total was about $13,000... to tell me I had heat stroke. Which… Continue reading The Daily: 7 August, Epilogue
Things to look forward to... a drink of water About a month ago, in fact, the weekend before the second flooding, it was hot. Of course it was hot. And very humid. Of course that too. That's what we get these days. Hot and humid. For days and days and days and no relief even… Continue reading The Daily: 7 August 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 