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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
Went In For a CT Scan, Left With a Panic Attack: Everyday Magic, Day 943
This is not to say I didn’t try to then smooth down the ragged edges of the shaky terror that started first in my bowels, then shook up...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 22, 20181 min read
Depression Beyond Comprehension: Everyday Magic, Day 942
I screwed up. When it comes to some close friends who suffer greatly from the kind of depression beyond comprehension — mine at least —...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20183 min read
After 64 Consecutive Semesters, Taking a Break: Everyday Magic, Day 941
I started teaching when I was 26. It was English 101 at the University of Kansas, a gig I figured would help me get through graduate...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 5, 20183 min read
The Beauty of Overgrowth: Everyday Magic, Day 940
With temperatures rising to summertime and good rains falling last week, everything is speeding into growth around this house. The hostas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 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
May 16, 20182 min read
Weeding in the Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 938
I felt that call of the garden as soon as Ken and I stepped out for our evening walk around the edges of the fields. “Let’s just stay...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20182 min read
