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“Three Walking Songs for the Night”: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Going from winter (otherwise known as much of April) to summer (disguised as May this year) has plummeted many of us in Kansas into the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 13, 20223 min read
Cancer Anniversaries: Everyday Magic, Day 1056
Cancer is often measured in anniversaries and fruit. We survivors often report in with our years out from the cancer after our initial...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 30, 20224 min read
My Friend Vaughn and the Walk to the House Down the Road: Everyday Magic, Day 1054
“Vaughn keeps talking about the house down the road,” Julie, his wife, told me just a few days before he died. I listened on the other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 30, 20224 min read
Finding Kansas (and That’s All She Wrote): Everyday Magic, Day 1049
I was lucky: I found a place that made a satisfying click when I set foot in it, and I knew. It was April 30, 1982, I was living in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20223 min read
Small Sweetnesses in a Dark, Cold Time: Everyday Magic, Day 1048
At Checkers, our big locally-owned grocery store the other day, the check-out lines snaked across the frozen food section with six or so...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 20, 20222 min read
The Call: Everyday Magic, Day 1057
This morning, I gave a short talk at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation’s Rosh Hashana service on Shafarot, a calling to live...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20212 min read
In Search of the Big-Ass Trees: Everyday Magic, Day 1046
When we went to the Pacific Northwest earlier this month, we had a mission: behold as many big-ass trees as possible. Thanks to our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 31, 20212 min read
When Everything’s Coming Up Roses: Everyday Magic, Day 1044
Kansas roses struggle once summer gets its heat on, but I have found a land where everything is coming up roses: the Pacific Northwest....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20213 min read
The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041
Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20214 min read
Meanwhile, the Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 1038
We are living in a world of rain lately, and according to the weather forecast, this is life as we know it into the foreseeable process. ...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20212 min read
“Life Will Break You”: A Year Since Everything Changed: Everyday Magic, Day 1031
“This is probably the last time we’ll be able to do this,” we nervously joked with each other a year ago. We were friends, gathered at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20213 min read
Birds Are the Best Thing About Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 1029
When the temperature gets near or below zero, survival comes into sharper focus for us all, but so do birds and their survival without...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 20213 min read
What’s In Your Mystery Box?: Everyday Magic , Day 1027
On the phone with my cousin Richard last night, we talked about how life gives you materials you don’t often sign up for, then you have...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 29, 20212 min read
When I Don’t Know What Else to Do: Everyday Magic, Day 1025
Since the riots of hatred last Wednesday, it’s hard to get my bearings. Like most of the people I know, the word “unbelievable!” peppers...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 20212 min read
Holding On For a Little More Light: Everyday Magic, Day 1022
A lot of us need more light now or as soon as possible. With the pandemic numbers rising and so many of us connected to people sick or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 13, 20202 min read
When Winter Comes Stomping In: Everyday Magic, Day 1019
Suddenly, I’m searching for sweaters, cursing the lack of mittens with me for a walk, and shiver-driving around town for the interminable...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20202 min read
A Year From Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1014
A year ago, driving a mountain cabin to Denver to see old friends, we had no idea. It just seemed that life would go on like this with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20203 min read
What is a Year?: Everyday Magic, Day 1009
A year ago, I was positively radioactive. On June 14, I had surgery to insert a tiny gold disk of radioactive pellets in my right eye,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 17, 20202 min read
The Peonies Where a Tornado, Cancer Diagnosis, and Pandemic Meet: Everyday Magic, Day 1007
As I watch the Pendleton’s peonies I just bought rush from tight little balls to full-throttle fireworks of blossoms, I keep thinking of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20203 min read
The Brave Voice of the Iris: Everyday Magic, Day 1006
The irises are falling all over themselves with the weight of their beauty. It’s banner year where they’ve gone beyond simply showing off...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 15, 20203 min read
