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Old Boyfriends and Strange Tales of Just Trying to Get Loved: Everyday Magic, Day 668
Today I noticed on facebook it was the birthday of an old boyfriend, which got me remembering stories about other old boyfriends, and all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20133 min read
Last Morning of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 665
It’s the last morning of 2012, a year that doesn’t translate for me easily into a phrase or two. It was hotter than hell. The drought did...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20122 min read
The Evening After the End of Days: Everyday Magic, Day 661
Natalie and I celebrate the end of the world with matching pajamas that kind of match our kitty too Although I know the Mayans didn’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 21, 20122 min read
A Letter to Republicans From An Obama Supporter: Everyday Magic, Day 645
Dear Republican friends and readers, Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I promise that I’m not writing to gloat, but to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 7, 20124 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
Nov 1, 20122 min read
Back to the Source in New Jersey: Everyday Magic, Day 639
Reunited after 30 years with Phil Brater, my mentor and dear friend who modeled for me what true witnessing, support and daring to love...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 23, 20122 min read
Almost Twilight, Almost Cold Front, Almost Debate Time: Everyday Magic, Day 630
I’ve been working on the porch all afternoon, the impossibly blue sky highlighting the wind-blown lit green of the leaves. The wind has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 3, 20122 min read
A Wedding Shower, a Funeral, a Newborn, a Dying Friend & a Little Cold: Everyday Magic, Day 628
The Days of Awe have been more than awe-inspiring this year, thanks to a confluence of life’s essence. In the last week, we’ve poured our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 25, 20122 min read
“No Way of Dividing What’s Yours & Mine When Everything is Shining” & My
Juxtaposed with the news reports in my head of the Republican National Convention, recent polling on the election, the impossibility of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20122 min read
Beautiful Juxtapositions: Everyday Magic, Day 610
All weekend, the beautiful juxtapositions of like plus unlike have amused and startled me. It started with Forest showing me how to march...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 12, 20122 min read
Through the Looking Glass of Goddard: Everyday Magic, Day 607
The air is warm and damp (mid-80s and humid) as opposed to dry and hot (like the 109 predicted for Kansas today). The rain comes often....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 4, 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
Jul 5, 20121 min read
Facilitating Hard Meetings: Everyday Magic, Day 583
Today I facilitated a very hard meeting for a group. As a long-time facilitator, using a Quaker-style model of facilitation funneled...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 9, 20123 min read
A Steadfast, Upright Woman: Lynn Bretz: Everyday Magic, Day 558
This is For Lynn She walked among us, steadfast, upright. Clear-eyed, clear-headed, she considered the issues, aesthetic, political,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 2, 20122 min read
Pinneapple Power, Couger Blessing & Other Wonders of Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 551
Friday, I landed home from the 7th annual Brave Voice: Writing & Singing for Your Life retreat that Kelley Hunt and I blessedly do...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20123 min read
Standing on the Side of Love For Same-Sex Marriage: Everyday Magic, Day 549
When I saw the news, first on facebook and next in the New York Times, I started crying. Maybe I’m a little tired or overly enthralled...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 9, 20123 min read
The Scandals of Our Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 492
Ever since my Wabi Sabi group met to talk about scandals, I’ve been thinking a little more than usual about what’s forbidden, off the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 2, 20122 min read
A Very Tall Cloud, the Joplin Tornado, the Eventual Graduation and the Rebuilding of Everything: Eve
On May 21st, Daniel quasi-graduated from Bethel College, meaning he walked in cap and gown with the others but still had an incomplete to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 24, 20112 min read
Living in Two Worlds At Once, or “Do I Contradict Myself? Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself&
A few days ago, a woman driving me through a pounding rainstorm in New England revealed to me that she both works for an organization...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20112 min read
Remembering Matthew Shepard & What Divides Us: Everday Magic, Day 424
There are many people tortured, even killed, just because they are who they are, and while I don’t mean to lift up Shepard above all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 12, 20112 min read
