Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
Saturnalia Saturnalia begins today. Time for feasting and merriment. No time for work, it's all play for the next many days. Too much wine. Not enough sleep. All frenetic fun. Much like with Mardi Gras, this holiday is not particularly my thing. But I do relish a breakdown of order... and Saturnalia is time to… Continue reading The Daily: 17 December 2025
The goldenrods began blooming last week, the garlic is ready to dig, and the calendula are getting unruly. This is when central Vermont starts to see these sorts of signs of the approaching autumn. The very tops of the maples start to glow in yellows and reds. Many mornings begin in fog, and many evenings… Continue reading The Daily: 29 July 2025
It seems to me that when people talk about voluntary simplicity, they are talking about refusing to engage with wasteful lifestyle patterns. Which is well and good at face value. But then they go on, and you notice the way they are defining the definition, heavy on the stylizing, a bit more fuzzy on what… Continue reading The Daily: 28 January 2025
Something about technology that doesn’t work properly just sets me off. I know I’m overreacting, but that doesn’t stop me. I can fume about it for hours, and even for days if it’s not resolved. I just expect things to work, or to be simple to correct when they don’t. When you buy something, I’ve… Continue reading The Daily: 24 January 2025
I have been on Starhawk's Earth Activism weblist for, I think, as long as she's had it. I've followed her writings for my entire adult life. The Spiral Dance, her influential first book (and, to my mind, still her best) was published in 1979, not far from 50 years ago. (How's that for making you… Continue reading The Daily: 21 January 2025
Today, I set out to describe meaningful ritual at this time of the year... things went a bit sideways... A few years ago, I began this blog chiefly as a way to talk about how to mark time, how to meaningfully tie each Season to the seasons without creating harm and waste — and exhausting… Continue reading The Daily: 22 December 2024
Saturnalia Saturnalia begins today. This year Saturn is sharing the night sky with the much brighter upstart planetary deities, Venus and Jupiter; but Saturn is still brighter than any star in the sky, shining to the south for several hours after sunset. In my part of the world, the earliest sunsets, 4:11pm have already passed… Continue reading The Daily: 17 December 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
There was not much progress on the orthodoxy vs orthopraxy piece over the weekend... There was not much writing at all, what with a decided lack of brain after Saturday. But I did get a couple comments and a bit of email* on yesterday's post which serve as a nice lead-in to the article that… Continue reading The Daily: 8 October 2024
You gotta love the energy-economics people. They really are trying so hard to understand why whatever has propelled this system for several centuries suddenly no longer works. They rightly deduce that a program of ever-increasing material use is not going to last long on a finite planet, nor in a finite universe, for that matter.… Continue reading The Daily: 30 August 2024
By My Solitary Hearth 