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When Self-Care Isn't Enough: Everyday Magic, Day 897
Case in point: I’m sick now, nothing very serious, and after struggling against a virus or something like it for six weeks. I had to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 25, 20173 min read
Only-In-Lawrence-Kansas-Moments: Everyday Magic, Day 896
We love music and poetry in this town, so of course, a panhandler needs to use a Leonard Cohen quote, “Love is the only engine for...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 19, 20172 min read
Poets Laureate of Kansas Call For the Humanities
In the past few weeks, I’ve been workin Poets Laureate of Kansas Statement of Support for the Humanities What does it mean to be fully...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 5, 20172 min read
We're All Such Delicate Creatures, But At Least We're In Good Company: Everyday Magic, Day 895
Everyone I know has something hard to live or live with: the everyday heartbreak of going on when a greatly beloved is dead or gone, a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 29, 20173 min read
Save the Humanities!: Everyday Magic, Day 894
Photo by Stephen Locke, used with permission The kids were already in the front seats when I arrived at the Coffey County Library branch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20173 min read
Just-Doing-That-Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 893
Snow, do you forsake the forsythia? This land’s Osage Indians, like many tribal people, named each month for its ecological context,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20171 min read
The Patron Saint of Just-Being Returns the Music: Everyday Magic, Day 892
In the two-plus years since our dear friend Jerry died, I’ve occasionally resumed my search for my Ipod mini, a little music player I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 3, 20172 min read
We're Sick!: Everyday Magic, Day 891
We just had a thermometer contest: whoever had the most normal temperature won, and I lost. Both Ken and I have what’s likely a wicked...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 13, 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
Feb 3, 20172 min read
"Dedications" and the Women's March in Topeka (and Everywhere!): Everyday Magic, Day
One of the men I was talking about — my husband Ken — plus Dot Nary, who gave a superb talk and her husband Today I was given the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20173 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
Jan 16, 20171 min read
"Kansas Just Wants to Be Kansas": Everyday Magic, Day 887
“Southern California Wants to Be Western New York” is the title and subject of one of Dar Williams’ songs about what happens when the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20172 min read
"I Will Not Be Afraid of Women" and Other Dar Williams Inspired Poetry: Everyday Magic, Da
Dar Williams, in her performance at the Lawrence Arts Center. To get ready, I wrote a bunch of new poems, all inspired by Dar’s lyrics...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 4, 20172 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
Winter Solstice and the Shortest Day: Everyday Magic, Day 882
Nora Jones sings on my computer, Natalie naps under a Tardis blanket on the couch, and Miyako the cat bird-watches in the windowsill....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 21, 20162 min read
Beyond the Dark Tunnel of Mid-December: Everyday Magic, Day 881
As a kid, I dreaded the stretch between New Jersey and New York City when our family station wagon would descend into the underworld,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 9, 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
Sustain the Beloved Community, and Reject the New Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 879
Like many people I know, I’m caught in a panoramic response to the presidential election. One moment, I’m crying, another I’m agonizing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 18, 20164 min read
