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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 13, 20131 min read
A Quiet Moment in the Morning: Everyday Magic, Day 746
Again, the dogs and cat sleep, some curled into a ball on worn-out cushions, others stretched on sofa arms in the sun. The light, caught...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 22, 20132 min read
Beauty, Balance, Forgiveness, Forgiveness: Everyday Magic, Day 726
Swimming across the blue-green quarry pond in Vermont last week, and lately across the turquoise city pool in Kansas, I’ve found myself...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 24, 20132 min read
A Long, Slow Spring With Lots of Quick, Fast Travel: Everyday Magic, Day 696
At the beginning of March, I trembled when I looked at my calendar. With the end of my poet laureate term ending, I basically stopped...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 18, 20131 min read
The Gift of a Navajo Blanket at the End of An Era: Everyday Magic, Day 695
So much lately — from radio interviews to poet herding, plans from all directions coalescing to plans just glimmering on the coming...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 12, 20132 min read
When the View Changes: Everyday Magic, Day 677
Now, as if it’s an ordinary day, which it kind of is, I sit in Capitol Grinds, my coffee shop hangout in Montpelier, Vermont. Ahead is a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 1, 20122 min read
A Jersey Girl Thinks About the Shore: Everyday Magic, Day 643
Long Beach Island When you grow up where I did, when the temperature or boredom rises, you head to the shore, 20-40 minutes away...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 22, 20122 min read
A 30-Year Reunion, Workshop & Reading, and Dead Bird (All in a Day’s Work): Everyday Magi
Yesterday, Ken and I drove west for 2.5 hours to beautiful Salina, Kansas. Never mind that it was 106 degrees (if we stopped doing things...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 20, 20122 min read
One Moment in the Climate Crisis: Everyday Magic, Day 602
When I think of the weather lately — hard not to do when the reality behind and forecast ahead is triple-digit days up one side and down...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 9, 20122 min read
Wishing the Water: Everyday Magic, Day 595
Another big storm coming to the big lake When I told my mother-in-law that Minnesota’s north shore received 200% of its average rainfall,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 5, 20121 min read
Getting Down on the Gitche Gumee: Everyday Magic, Day 594
The changes are startling and beautiful. From the blue, calm lake feathered with pink highlights late afternoon our first day, or the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 7, 20122 min read
Chigger Magnet: Everyday Magic, Day 546
Some men and women and chick magnets. Me? I’m a chigger magnet. Take me out to the fields or woods with you, and you won’t need insect...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20125 min read
How One Weekend Gathering 30 Years Ago Changed Everything: Everyday Magic, Day 545
One of our early campouts. See if you can find Ken and me. I was 22, living in Kansas City, completely fed-up with the world of dating in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20122 min read
Lighting a Big Field On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 526
Would we burn the whole field before the rain and lightning came? It was hard to tell, and we almost stopped several times, but then we...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20121 min read
10 Perfect Things: Everyday Magic, Day 521
10 a.m. in the Checkers (supermarket for you out-of-towners) parking lot, I saw a man surely in his 70s or older carrying a one-year-old...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20122 min read
Magnolia Tour 2012: Everyday Magic, Day 518
Every year, they explode open too fast only to be killed by some midnight frost that comes in mid March. Most years, I tell myself I will...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20122 min read
Unromancing the Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 517
I was surrounded by fire in the dry grass as it ran forward, little triangles composed of small flames licking the grass. I tried to put...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 19, 20122 min read
In Love With Vermont & Homesick For Kansas: The Folly & Wonder of Being Multi-Placial: Eve
It’s no wonder that I’ve had several conversations with students and friends lately about being multi-placial, that is, being someone...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 20112 min read
A Small Woman in the Forest of Tall Men: Everyday Magic, Day 456
Kelley and Ken with one of the Kaw kids and the late great Susan Jones When I first came to Lawrence almost 30 years ago, I ran with a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 14, 20111 min read
When Humans Make Places Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 425
An hour or so west (“Everything in New Hampshire is an hour away from everything else,” George tells me), I get to the elevator in my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 6, 20111 min read
"Everything Tells the Story of the Universe": A Moment of Thomas Berry: Everyday Magic
My friend David shared a quote on a listserv today that reminded me of where I live: in the universe, and in story. I pass this onto you...
