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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
The Moon is Still the Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 878
I thought I would be crying tears of relief and joy. Instead, I sit in the dark at midnight while Ken tries to sleep, occasionally check...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 9, 20162 min read
Voting for All the Girls, Women, and Beyond-Gender-People We Love, Know, Were or Are
When I walk into the voting booth Tuesday and pencil in the bubble for Clinton/Kaine, I have no doubt I’ll be crying in hope for who I’m...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20164 min read
A Beautiful Moment in a Time of Despair: Everyday Magic, Day 876
As I turn away from the news of collapsing politics and ecology, I also see this: the sky to the west is filling with clouds, the wind is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 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
L'Shanah Tova — a Poem for the New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 874
As for this old year, all the beings in my house are tag-team napping. I’m unfurling from a wicked little cold and sinus deal that has...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 2, 20162 min read
