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“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949
In one of Rumi's poems, I love these lines especially: Reach your long hands out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 8, 20183 min read


I’m in Love With a Great Lake: Everyday Magic, Day 946
I’m in love with Lake Superior, and the more I visit, the deeper I fall. Not only is this the greatest of the Great Lakes, containing 10%...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 23, 20183 min read


Annual Pilgrimage to Our Patron Saint: Mary Chapin Carpenter: Everyday Magic, Day 944
This year Kelley Hunt and I trekked to Wichita for a long day’s night to the Wabi Sabi (beautiful, decaying, and full of soul and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 4, 20183 min read


The Beauty of Overgrowth: Everyday Magic, Day 940
With temperatures rising to summertime and good rains falling last week, everything is speeding into growth around this house. The hostas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20182 min read


I’m in Love With Irises (Peonies Too): Everyday Magic, Day 939
Why are they so mind-blowingly beautiful? Is it the delicate petal, something between paper and flesh? Or the enormous resilience of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20182 min read


Sparkling Night Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 787
The daytime snow doesn’t glitter like the nighttime snow, but it’s ruffled with ridges Tonight as I walked from the center of campus to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 18, 20141 min read


Beautiful Birds in the Morning, Stuck in the Mud With Potato Salad in the Evening: Everyday Magic, D
Indigo Bunting, you are so lovely! The day began with beautiful birds and ended with me stuck in the mud clutching four pounds of potato...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 4, 20132 min read


The Eye of the Iris: Everyday Magic, Day 297
My new friend, poet laureate of Wyoming David Romtvedt, shared with me this astonishing poem about irises that he gave me permission to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 12, 20112 min read


How to Live?: Everyday Magic
A steady question has circled me for years like a song I can't shake: "How to live?" When I was diagnosed with breast cancer over five...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 30, 20074 min read