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Eliza Daley

Eliza Daley is a fiction. She is the part of me that is confident and wise, knowledgable and skilled. She is the voice that wants to be heard in this old woman who more often prefers her solitary and silent hearth. She has all my experience — as mother, musician, geologist and logician; book-seller, business-woman, and home-maker; baker, gardener, and chief bottle-washer; historian, anthropologist, philosopher, and over it all, writer. But she has not lived, is not encumbered with all the mess and emotion, and therefore she has a wonderfully fresh perspective on my life. I rather like knowing her. I do think you will as well.

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Lugh’s Blessing

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

We have a need of skills. We are too much enamored of the tools we’ve made. We believe these tools have freed us from hard labor, hand labor, back labor; but it seems to me that we are working harder than ever.

  • July 28, 2021
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The Problem of Philosophy

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

The problem with philosophy — and much of the rest of the world of writing — is that writing is done by the privileged. It is edited and published by the privileged.

  • July 23, 2021
Kalina hunter gatherers

Further Exegesis of A Man

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

We need to reclaim our true past and create a future in which the care that nurtures life is the only work necessary, where money and hierarchies and all the other fancies of A Man are thrown on the compost heap, and where all work is done by and for all people.

  • July 19, 2021

On the Existence of A Man

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

Philosophers and mystics throughout time have been showing us that everything is connected, that humans are part of that everything, that unity is fundamental — and sacred.

  • July 12, 2021
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On the Existence of Independence

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

It is Independence Day. This is the worst holiday ever created. Even if you leave out the explosions.

  • July 7, 2021
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Homeless

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

So for all that the house is central to our economy (mind that definition, friends!), we are still homeless. We do not have a place that is part of us as we are part of it, that is valued for its own sake and cared for, that is who we are.

  • June 14, 2021
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On Education

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

We need education. Not standards. (“We don’t need no thought control.” Ever.) And yes, by those standards, it is a priority — perhaps even an emergency now. We need education for all our children.

  • June 7, 2021
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On the Myth of Debatable Science

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

Science is not a debate. It is not a conversation between opposing points of view. It is not a balanced discussion of belief systems.

  • May 24, 2021
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