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There But for Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 963
Eighteen years ago, we almost lost our youngest son Forest in a car accident involving black ice, three kids and me in a van, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 31, 20192 min read
In Praise of Mary Oliver: Everyday Magic, Day 962
I can’t remember when I first encountered Oliver’s poetry, but I know this: it wasn’t when I was doing a PhD in poetry despite my comps...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20194 min read
Looking for Patterns and Finding Them Everywhere: Everyday Magic, Day 961
When Ken and I went to Mount St. Helens with friends several years ago, I was dazzled by the patterned forests full of checkerboard green...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 9, 20193 min read
Surprises From 2018: Everyday Magic, Day 960
In reading Kate Bowler’s evocative essay, “How Cancer Changes Hope” and revising poems for my next book, How Times Moves, I’ve been...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20183 min read
Lightening Up for the Solstice: Everyday Magic, Day 959
Tomorrow the world turns over: our shortening days stop in their tracks, and the light begins lengthening those days for months to come....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 20, 20182 min read
Grief is Not What We Think It Is: Everyday Magic, Day 958
V ery little in life is what we think it is, especially grief. In the three weeks since my mother-in-law died, I’ve ridden a pack of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20182 min read
Alice: Praising My Mother-in-Law: Everyday Magic, Day 957
After crowd-sourcing some of the details for this poem from her children (including my husband), here’s what I wrote for the woman who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 18, 20182 min read
Look for the Miriams: Everyday Magic, Day 956
A few hours after the Tree of Life shooting, we clung to each other — singing, praying, crying — at the Beth Israel Center in Madison,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 29, 20183 min read
Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955
The big picture mind-blowing expanses are all around, from a distance golden variegated hazes that upon closer range become crazy quilts...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 22, 20182 min read
I’m Heartbroken for Our Country: Everyday Magic, Day 954
Yesterday, a woman spoke with great poise, integrity, and courage about how she was terrified that the supreme court nominee would...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 28, 20184 min read
On the Cusp of the Days of Awe: Everyday Magic, Day 953
This pre-Rosh Hashana afternoon, as I watch a dive-bombing hummingbird and a dozen others just trying to get a drink from our feeder, my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 9, 20183 min read
I Love Driving in the County: Everyday Magic, Day 952
Such drives help me uncouple mismatched thoughts, suspicions, and worries over the miles, and unearth clearer senses of where I’m being...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20181 min read
The Hospitality of Writing: Everyday Magic, Day 951
Sitting outside and writing at home feeds my soul. This led me to develop “A Leap Forward Writing Retreat” for Nov., 3, a day I welcome...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 3, 20182 min read
Rituals of Pause as the Big Rocks in the Jar: Everyday Magic, Day 950
What Neela, a marvelous integrative physician and founder of Atma Clinic, said rocked my world. Wait, what about all the things I need to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 18, 20182 min read
“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949
In one of Rumi's poems, I love these lines especially: Reach your long hands out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 8, 20183 min read
Surprise Lilies: Everyday Magic, Day 948
Surprise Lilies Green shots, pink ribbons in the alley lining the dumpster or the driveway around the broken mowers, past moving out...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 7, 20181 min read
From Your Alley to My Kitchen: Everyday Magic, Day 947
Mostly, though, running the alleys means encounters with things I didn’t know I was looking for, such as new stools for our breakfast...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 31, 20182 min read
I’m in Love With a Great Lake: Everyday Magic, Day 946
I’m in love with Lake Superior, and the more I visit, the deeper I fall. Not only is this the greatest of the Great Lakes, containing 10%...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 23, 20183 min read
On the Cusp of the Vacation: Everyday Magic, Day 945
At this moment, the car is packed except for the vitamins, which would melt. The gas tank is full. I have a little cash in my wallet, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 12, 20182 min read
Annual Pilgrimage to Our Patron Saint: Mary Chapin Carpenter: Everyday Magic, Day 944
This year Kelley Hunt and I trekked to Wichita for a long day’s night to the Wabi Sabi (beautiful, decaying, and full of soul and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 4, 20183 min read
