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Welcome to the Dialogue and Friendship Dinner: With An Outstretched Hand
Thanks to Eyyup Esen, the force of friendship between this event Tonight I was honored to give the welcome and a welcoming poem at the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 29, 20143 min read
When Hate Strikes Close to Home: Everyday Magic, Day 798
When I left Sunday morning to give a presentation on my Holocaust book Needle in the Bone at a Topeka synagogue, hate crimes against Jews...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 14, 20142 min read
Death Tour 2014: Everyday Magic, Day 797
Portrait of the artist recovering with her cat Within one week, I attended my uncle’s moving funeral in New Jersey, our dear community...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 12, 20142 min read
Maggie, the Heartbeat of What It Means to Be Alive: Everyday Magic, Day 796
Although I didn’t know Maggie for decades or pal around big-time for her, whenever I saw her, we got right down to it: cancer (first...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 9, 20142 min read
When Things Fall Apart: Everyday Magic, Day 795
One of my favorite books, Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart, names this week. Two of our three young adult children lost their jobs,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 3, 20142 min read
Finishing the Last Poem for Chasing Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 794
As a poet, I’m not used to writing a body of poems on deadline although there have been plenty of times I’m pushing and praying through a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 27, 20142 min read
Two Bodies Always in Motion: A Crowd-Sourced Poem of Sorts: Everyday Magic, Day 793
Two Bodies Always in Motion A coruscating kaleidescope of fire, grief, possibility, and beauty about to be ghosted in the velvet memory...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 22, 20141 min read
God Has a Little Talk With Fred Phelps: Everyday Magic, Day 792
Fred: You’re God? God: You were expecting some white man with a beard. Puleeeaze! Fred: But you’re Black, and you look like Barbra...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 21, 20143 min read
The Blessing of Sig: Everyday Magic, Day 791
Sig, who also officiated over our son’s bris, wrote this welcome to our daughter a few days after her birth in April of 1992: The birth...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 19, 20142 min read
So I’m Not Really In Cyprus (and Other Realities of Being Spammed): Everyday Magic, Day 790
Very early this morning at dark’o’thirty, I was rudely awakened with the news: my email sent everyone in my address book a message that I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20142 min read
The Winter That Could Not End: Everyday Magic, Day 789
Adding to my winter kvetching has been a five-day virus, just now ebbing after nights of making me shiver so much that piles of down...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 5, 20141 min read
Why You Should Support the Best Work Of One of the Best Musicians: Everyday Magic, Day 788
Kelley and some of the musicians she recorded with in Nashville Yesterday I listened to one of the most beautiful albums in my life:...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 23, 20142 min read
Sparkling Night Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 787
The daytime snow doesn’t glitter like the nighttime snow, but it’s ruffled with ridges Tonight as I walked from the center of campus to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 18, 20141 min read
True Love Isn’t Rose Petals: Everyday Magic, Day 786
For one thing, he doesn’t like roses, except for native wild roses, although he’s learned not to insult the roses I’ve planted in our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20143 min read
In Praise of Maxine Kumin: Everyday Magic, Day 785
How rare is this for a very famous poet with decades of achievements? More rare than Sam Brownback crushing on Hillary Clinton. But...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 7, 20142 min read
The Oncoming-Snow Drive for Groceries: Everyday Magic, Day 783
The woman in front of me turned when she had all her food on the conveyer belt and said, “I don’t know why I even bought this much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20141 min read
In Memory of Pete Seeger: Everyday Magic, Day 762
I grew up on Pete Seeger, his music and his voice coming to me through the radio, the television, and perhaps just in the wind. Of course...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 28, 20142 min read
The Love of Justice, The Justice of Love, and Why Courtney & Denise Should Be Able to Marry in
2001 Real-But-Not-in-Kansas Wedding Portrait When Courtney and Denise asked me to marry them, I said, “Sure, but you know, I’m not legal...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 23, 20144 min read
On the Other Side of Surgery: Everyday Magic, Day 760
Sunset with a tunnel of red light the first night home Time is a strange substance that envelopes us. A day ago, a week ago, a year...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 17, 20143 min read
Goodbye, Dog of Love: Everyday Magic, Day 759
We found Mariah at the Humane Society when Daniel, his friend Katie, and I went in looking for a special canine pal for Daniel. Mariah...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 13, 20143 min read
