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Poetry, Miracles, and the Path to the Beloved Community: Everyday Magic, Day 848
With poet therapists and community beloveds Nick Mazza and Perie Longo Toward the end of April, I had the honor of giving a keynote...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20151 min read
Listening, and Getting Rid of Stuff: Everyday Magic, Day 847
Thunder, then a long stretch of wind shaking up Cottonwood Mel outside my window. A plane overhead from faraway heading faraway. The...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20152 min read
Why Are We Busy When It’s So Astonishingly Beautiful? Everyday Magic, Day 845
Kelley of the Lilac Every April I land in pure and blossoming enchantment every direction I look. Trees barely hold up their...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 15, 20151 min read
Big Bending Toward the Desert: Everyday Magic, Day 844
Hiking in the Big Bend almost 30 years ago People say you either love or hate the desert. For me, it turns out to be both/and rather than...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 2, 20153 min read
Learning the Stars: Everyday Magic, Day 843
Despite living with a man who's all about the stars (as well as the flowers, the grasses, and seasonal migrations of many species), I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20152 min read
Back to the Pool, Whining All the Way: Everyday Magic, Day 837
I wanted to go. I didn’t want to go. I figured I might, but probably wouldn’t, yet just in case, I tossed the bathing suit and towel in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 1, 20152 min read
Getting Some New Blood In My Life: Everyday Magic, Day 834
I feel as if I just returned from a trip that entailed sheer cliffs, hair-pin turns, long treks through the desert without enough water,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20153 min read
A Little More Light, Please, Oh, Hanukkah: Everyday Magic, Day 830
The nights get longer, snow I seem to have gotten through the day of constant crying, followed by the day of crazy anger, all punctuated...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 17, 20141 min read
Jerry: Everyday Magic, Day 829
Jerry with me shortly after I finished chemo in 2002 When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, I discovered what many already know...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 14, 20144 min read
“Listen, This Day is MAGIC,” She Said: Everyday Magic, Day 827
“Listen, this day is MAGIC and I’m not kidding,” Kelley Hunt wrote today on Facebook, and I knew at once the truth of such moments. It...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20142 min read
What Can a White Person Do?: Everyday Magic, Day 825
Ferguson, Missouri is about a four-hour drive east of where I live, and yet it seems a world apart. In my town, which is far more white,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 26, 20144 min read
Loving Rachel Rolfs: Everyday Magic, Day 821
Rachel, her brother Micah and mom LaVetta in 1983 This was a girl who grew up in the background, preferring to help others shine and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 22, 20142 min read
Happy Rosh Hashana: Everyday Magic, Day 817
The days of awe come exactly when they’re supposed to, launching with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, and ending with breaking fast on...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 24, 20142 min read
Why I Buy Myself Flowers Each Week: Everyday Magic, Day 813
I didn’t always buy myself flowers each Friday, and actually, I’m not even sure when I started, but it was sometime in the last five or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 29, 20142 min read
Sneak Preview: Marching with Zombies (from POEM ON THE RANGE): Everyday Magic, Day 808
“Undead Poet Laureate of Kansas,” I had Ken magic-marker onto a white shirt, and then, with a purse full of bookmarks to commemorate the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 27, 20142 min read
Praying for the Peace That Surpasses All Understanding: Everyday Magic, Day 807
On Facebook, at the grocery store, and even in my own kitchen, discussions heat up about the Israeli bombing of Gaza, and the Hamas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 13, 20143 min read
To All the Young Adults I Love: Everyday Magic, Day 806
Now that all three of our children are young adults, I realize how difficult it is to be moseying around on not-completely-fully-formed...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 30, 20144 min read
Lawrence, Kansas: Center of the Universe: Everyday Magic, Day 805
A standing still (and surprised) artist on Mass. and 9th St. As I always say, there are two rules to Lawrence: 1) Don’t leave; and 2) If...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 28, 20142 min read
Can’t Get There From Here: The Outrageous Traffic Catch-22 of Lawrence, KS: Everyday Magic, Da
This is kind of understandable although not a happy thing: we still have, or at least had, Iowa St. to the west of us only now Iowa is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 8, 20142 min read
Back in the Swim of Things: Everyday Magic, Day 801
Today it was back to the city pool for the first time since late last August. I paid my money, drank my water, took off my cover-up and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20142 min read
