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A Bedroom Full of Fireflies: Everyday Magic, Day 864
There they were for the last two nights: a dozen or more fireflies stitching their green light across the bedroom, rising toward the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 28, 20162 min read
Bringing Charles Home: Everyday Magic, Day 863
It was one of those Kansas days when any moment of daylight would be heavy with heat and humidity although a 9 a.m. burial was more like...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 19, 20163 min read
Charles Is A Force of Nature: Everyday Magic, Day 862
Charles was one of the first Lawrencians I ever met, in about 1981 when I was a member of the Kansas City Sufi community, where Charles...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 15, 20163 min read
Yup, It’s Hot Out, But It’s Also Kind of Lovely: Everyday Magic, Day 861
It’s hot, and it will be hot for the foreseeable future with highs in the 90s through most of the rest of June. Then it turns July, when...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20162 min read
Saved (Again) By Music: Everyday Music, Day 860
Celebrating Claudia’s birthday at the concert with Michel Loomis Listening to the astonishingly spirited Claudia Schmidt perform a house...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20164 min read
The Growing Pains of Wild and Woolly Too-Muchness: Everyday Magic, Day 859
This Memorial Day weekend, I wrote and revised an obituary and memorial service after meeting with my friend’s family, organized some of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 31, 20161 min read
Just Another Kansas Night Cleaning the Basement and Tracking Tornadoes: Everyday (and night) Magic,
It’s been a whirl of excessive humidity, insomnia, drawings of monsters from another planet, long-track tornadoes, and rusted ice cream...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20161 min read
Deathwatch 2016: Everyday Magic, Day 857
It’s past midnight, and I’m sitting in my dark bedroom lit by this computer screen and the moon-brightened clouds moving across the dark...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 22, 20162 min read
Digging into What’s Mine to Chill Out the Fixer-Bee: Everyday Magic 856
In the past week, because I was on a mini vacation (when the shit always seems to especially hit the fan), I kept bumping into my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 5, 20162 min read
What’s So Good About Being Sick? Everyday Magic 895
Sometimes the body says, “Stop!” in the most eloquent language it can, a slim intuition that lands sweetly in the center of our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 16, 20163 min read
A Tale of (at Least) Two Quilts: Everyday Magic 894
I started the bright blue quilt with the crazy quilt squares — controlled chaos is how I see this design glimpsed and phone-photoed from...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 9, 20162 min read
Blossom Tour ’16: Everyday Magic 893
So one must stop for 20 minutes here or an hour there to walk, look, take photos on one’s iphone, never being able to get enough of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20161 min read
The Wild Weather of Dying: Everyday Magic, Day 892
For the last 11 days, my family’s life has been wrapped around the last phase of my mother-in-law’s life, first in the hospital, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 23, 20162 min read
Prevernal for the Vernal Equinox: Everyday Magic, Day 891
Prevernal The dogs stop. The deer over the loop of the field pause. The highway rising west clears. I wait. Let my breath make itself...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 21, 20161 min read
The Light, the Dark, and a Road Trip to Western Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 890
I first presented the book to the marvelous Pioneer Memorial Library, which brought together close to 80 people in the basement for lunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20162 min read
People Can Surprise You: Everyday Magic, Day 889
Last night I dreamed I was a stand-up comic doing my first gig. There was mic trouble, and as I tried to riff off a list of topics I had...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 29, 20162 min read
A Traveling Water Ritual: Everyday Magic, Day 888
At the Kansas Area Watershed Council, we regularly have a water ritual. Standing in a circle around some springtime prairie plants in the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 22, 20162 min read
In Praise of Phil Ochs: Everyday Magic, Day 887
West Side Folk’s “A Night of Phil Ochs,” in which singer, actor and shining soul Zachary Stevenson completed embodied Ochs in voice,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20163 min read
Pet World and the Real Magic of Animals: Everyday Magic, Day 886
This was the Pet World re-opening eight months after a devastating fire killed many a reptile, all the fish, a kitten, and many other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 27, 20162 min read
Four Funerals and a Wedding: Everyday Magic, Day 885
I used to have more of a "Four weddings and a funeral" life, but get old enough, and things start to shift. In the last month, I've...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 24, 20163 min read
