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You Are My People and I Am Yours: A Talk on Reaching Out in Tender and Tumultuous Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1,128
At the 20th Power of Words conference Oct. 3-5 in Kansas City, I had the honor of giving the welcome talk, which I realized speaks to more than just people engaged in Transformative Language Arts (writing, storytelling, theater and other word arts for social and personal transformation and community building). So I share this here, hoping we all find meaning, stubborn hope, and belonging. At our first meeting, you could see how different we were by our shoes: Birkenstocks, w
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
3 days ago6 min read


Ireland: When a Dream Comes True: Everyday Magic, Day 1,127
Double rainbow in Ennistymon I must have been five or six when I first saw a picture of Ireland and knew I would go there one day. I'm...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 215 min read


Walking with Prayer Trees: Everyday Magic, Day 1,126
I believe this is a story tree, likely 300-400 years old In the middle of the forest, I fell in love with ponderosa pines. For some years...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 293 min read


In Praise of Mary and How There's No Time to Hurry: Everyday Magic, Day 1,125
Mary in front of her home, photobombing the peonies one spring day in the pandemic When our friend Mary died less than a week ago, her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 63 min read


A Letter to You on How it Started and How It's Going: Everyday Magic, Day 1,124
After the first surgery in 2019 Dear wonderful readers, I've missed you lately and have missed posting as regularly as I wish. There's so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 142 min read


What Having the Flu Showed Me About Loving My People: Everyday Magic, Day 1,123
Hanging out in real time with some of my tribe at Kat's memorial celebration At the tail-end of a bad bout of the flu I realized what...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 63 min read


The Power of Retreats: Everyday Magic, Day 1,122
Between the prairie and the lake I'm just back from Brave Voice, deep in the Flint Hills of Kansas -- here is a piece I wrote there,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 182 min read


How to Write a Book Out of Cancer, Love of Land, Fear of Death, and a Pandemic: Everyday Magic, Day 1,121
My new book, The Magic Eye: A Story of Saving a Life and a Place in the Age of Anxiety , is hitting the streets and bookshelves near you...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 305 min read


What Do We Do?: Two Images, One Day: Everyday Magic, Day 1,120
In the face of so much happening so fast, it's hard to know what to do, especially when cruelty is at the wheel. So it's no wonder that I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 94 min read


"Go Outside and Look for God" and Getting Through Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1,119
Friends walking in our field In the very long year that was January, Cindy, my acupuncturist, told me a story: another client of hers,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 45 min read


Being Refuges For Each Other and the Goodness of Jack: Everyday Magic, Day 1,118
I've been thinking lately about how we can be refuges of acceptance, calm,and love for each other. After all, it's been and it is a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 102 min read


Loving Kat: Everyday Magic, Day 1,117
One of my favorite pictures of Kat being Kat Determination, kindness, curiosity, and presence. That was Kat, so it was no wonder that,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 306 min read


I Killed a Deer: Everyday Magic, Day 1,116
"You'll be happy to hear we didn't kill a dear," my son Daniel's friend Dan told me two weeks ago when the two Daniels hauled their bright..
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20243 min read


Hope and the Candles That Keep Re-Igniting: Everyday Magic, Day 1,115
Happy birthday for a 2nd time On Christmas night, the first night of Hanukkah, and my sister-in-law Karen's birthday, we light a bunch of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 26, 20244 min read


Riding With Ronda (With Love): Everyday Magic, Day 1,114
Ronda reading at the 2014 Power of Words conference. Photo by Stephen Locke. When Ronda's son Scott called me Monday with the news of her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20243 min read


Aging Isn't What You Expect: Everyday Magic, Day 1,113
"How are we? How do we think we are? We are just waiting to die," Nanny (my grandmother) would tell me when I asked how she and Papa (my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 6, 20243 min read


The Unbearable Vulnerability of Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1,112
Just about everyone I know is carrying a backpack full of anxiety, dread, despair, or anger, sometimes weighing into terror or rage. We...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 20, 20244 min read


"Seeing in the Dark": Everyday Magic, Day 1,111
On Friday night, I shared this poem at Shabbat services at my synagogue. As I read it, I remembered how, when I wrote this some years...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 10, 20242 min read


What Makes This Bearable: Everyday Magic, Day 1,110
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 6, 20242 min read


33 Things To Get You From Here to There: Everyday Magic, Day 1,109
“Don’t read the news, at least not the feeding frenzy of speculation about the election,” I keep telling myself, and for good reason....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 2, 20247 min read










