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The Everyday Miracle of Rainbows: Everyday Magic, Day 904
Why I didn’t see a rainbow until I was 12 was because I wasn’t looking, not having imagined rainbows were possible in real life. Growing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 1, 20173 min read
A New Year to Be Kind: Everyday Magic, Day 885
I know the Dalai Lama says his religion is kindness, but it took a while for this truth to catch up with me. As I get older, it overtakes...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20173 min read
Remembering Aaron: Everyday Magic, Day 884
One of Our Own He’s one of our own: a golden-limbed boy, one hand on his hip, the other holding an ornate box turtle, his open face...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 29, 20161 min read
The Day After Christmas: Everyday Magic, Day 883
The day after Christmas is a clearing and arrival at once on the other side of what too often has felt like a great divide for me (check...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 26, 20162 min read
Birthdays, Graduations and Charmed Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 880
I’ve come across this bracelet before, like a treasure lost in a pond that comes ashore haphazardly, and put it away again as a relic of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20161 min read
Surviving with Gumption & Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 875
Days of Caring event in Hays, Kansas — a luncheon and fashion show to raise awareness about breast cancer. Here’s the talk I gave,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 8, 201621 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
Aug 15, 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
Jul 25, 20161 min read
Becoming a Parent Is Not What You Think: Everyday Magic, Day 865
Daniel with his grandmothers 27 years ago today, I was in labor at the with my first child at Topeka’s Birth and Women’s Health Center....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 7, 20163 min read
Saved (Again) By Music: Everyday Music, Day 860
Celebrating Claudia’s birthday at the concert with Michel Loomis Listening to the astonishingly spirited Claudia Schmidt perform a house...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20164 min read
The Wild Weather of Dying: Everyday Magic, Day 892
For the last 11 days, my family’s life has been wrapped around the last phase of my mother-in-law’s life, first in the hospital, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 23, 20162 min read
Four Funerals and a Wedding: Everyday Magic, Day 885
I used to have more of a "Four weddings and a funeral" life, but get old enough, and things start to shift. In the last month, I've...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 24, 20163 min read
A Wonder Made of Time and Staying Put: Everyday Magic, Day 883
A few days later, while wandering through the Merc to get a crapload of delicacies for friends facing serious medical woo-hah, I ran into...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 13, 20163 min read
A Year of Reunions: Everyday Magic, Day 882
In the arms and lap of Suzanne, one of my oldest friends Stay around long enough, and you’ll meet yourself and everyone else you love...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20154 min read
Simple Gifts: Everyday Magic, Day 878
‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free, ’tis the gift to come down where we ought to be, and when we find ourselves in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 26, 20152 min read
Adventures of Lenny the Squirrel Menorah: Everyday Magic, Day 749
Lenny deciding which part of the cake he wants (he prefers to eat the part with the candles) We have a new friend in Lenny the squirrel...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 4, 20132 min read
“I Have My Home in Two Worlds”: Coleman Barks, John Willison, Rumi, Magic Musicians and
With Coleman and John (and a very bright lamp) Last night was one of the shining evenings of my life. Surrounded by lightning and thunder...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20132 min read
What Marian McPartland Shows Us About Living Out Loud: Everyday Magic, Day 725
Waking up to hear about the death of Marian McPartland, I’ve been thinking all morning about what this epitome of grace demonstrates...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 21, 20132 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
Apr 18, 20131 min read
My Imaginary Father on the 10th Anniversary of His Death: Everyday Magic, Day 670
I also went to services at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation, which made me remember the last time Dad had been to this little...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20132 min read
