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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 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
Feb 1, 20182 min read
Swirling Distractions of Winter Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 926
The starlings grabbed my attention while I was pacing the living room on a phone call. They poured diagonally down to the lawn, fanning...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 11, 20172 min read
Birds of Many Feathers: 10 Eagles, 100 Swans, 100,000 Snow Geese: Everyday Magic, Day 920
I thought it was a bust, but the boon just hadn't happened yet. We wanted 100,000 snow geese, but just saw a handful of eagles, and 100...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 20, 20173 min read
Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912
I think of people in central Mexico, working frantically to unearth possible survivors from collapsed buildings from the 7.1 earthquake...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20173 min read
Eclipse in Our Midst: Everyday Magic, Day 909
This eclipse, the first one in 99 years crossing the whole country, soared its moon shadow at speeds from 2,410 mph in Oregon, to 1,502...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20172 min read
Endings and Beginnings at Midnight: Everyday Magic, Day 906
It is 12:04 a.m., and I”m writing this from our back deck where I sit cross-legged in a chair and stare up at two enormous trees. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20172 min read
When Things Fall Apart (Or Seem To): Everyday Magic, Day 890
Since the inauguration our family has been living out a microcosm of the macrocosm. While the details aren’t mine to tell, let’s just say...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 16, 20171 min read
Tucked into the Clouds: Everyday Magic, Day 888
But what there is: a dog napping on the couch behind Christmas lights adorning shelves for the cats to climb and sleep on, skillet corn...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 20161 min read
A Beautiful Moment in a Time of Despair: Everyday Magic, Day 876
As I turn away from the news of collapsing politics and ecology, I also see this: the sky to the west is filling with clouds, the wind is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 15, 20161 min read
Ocean View to Porch View: Everyday Magic, Day 868
Yesterday morning, I walked acros This morning, I walked to my front porch, put my feet up, and stared into the Osage Orange tree and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 24, 20161 min read
Insomnia with Stars, Rain, Thunder, and Lightning Bugs: Everyday Magic, Day 866
There’s something to said for seeing in the dark especially when the first rain in weeks makes both a dramatic and gentle entrance,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 1, 20142 min read
The Storm Before the Storm, and the Actual Storm: Everyday Magic, Day 819
There’s nothing like listening to Wagner while lightning illuminates a vast, dark grey monster you’re driving right into at highway...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20142 min read
A Good Rain in a Time of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 814
I’m sitting in the middle of my screened-in-porch while thunders roars to my east, and wind swooshes from my west. The sound of the rain...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 14, 20111 min read
Maybe We're All Trees With Holes In Our Hearts: Everyday Magic, Days 298-299
Over the last half-week, I’ve felt just a small pin-sized hole in my heart, ever since I read about our governor firing everyone who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 12, 20112 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
Apr 17, 20112 min read
Making Fire: Everyday Magic, Days 268-269
I think the flames look like two of Santa's reindeers It was too much to go home and make fire, I told myself, after balancing the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20112 min read
Japan: Everyday Magic, Days 232-233
Dedicated to my dear friend, Karen Campbell I keep thinking of Japan. As the news worsens, I catch glimpses of it, feel my little heart...
