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A Beautiful Place To Do Yoga, Even Alone: Everyday Magic, Day 405
Yesterday I rushed to Westside Yoga for my first class, hauling my computer and speakers and big pile of laminated poems. Strangely...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 8, 20112 min read
First Day of Being a Yoga Teacher: Everyday Magic, Day 404
Does this look like a yoga teacher to you? Maybe not, but let's just go with it. For some years, I’ve been a writing teacher who...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20112 min read
"Everything Tells the Story of the Universe": A Moment of Thomas Berry: Everyday Magic
My friend David shared a quote on a listserv today that reminded me of where I live: in the universe, and in story. I pass this onto you...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 6, 20111 min read
Old Friends: Everyday Magic, Day 402
Last night, some old friends had us over for dinner, a long walk (for some of us) and the watching of True Blood (for others of us)....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 5, 20112 min read
What Is This Life For?: Everyday Magic, Day 401
The first morning after the killing heat ends, after you’ve gotten through what you didn’t think you could endure, after the pear tree...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 4, 20111 min read
Little Heartbreaks & Big Ones: Everyday Magic, Day 400
Yesterday, I had a little heartbreak, work-related and not much in the big scheme of dreams and things, but enough, when compounded with...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 3, 20112 min read
When Worry & Insomnia Go Riding Off Into the Sunset Together: Everyday Magic, Day 399
It wasn’t a pretty thing, my mind reeling 100 mph, a train speeding across the continent, staying on the tracks of worry and insomnia,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 2, 20113 min read
Begin Again: Everyday Magic, Day 398
I started this post on the back deck in high winds on a day approaching 102 degrees, but the hot wind drove me inside, where I begin...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 1, 20112 min read
If You Can't Stand the Heat But Won't Leave the Kitchen: Everyday Magic, Day 397
The kitchen in this case is Kansas, and although I won’t leave, I kind of can’t stand the heat anymore. After a few days in the high 80s,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 31, 20111 min read
Dancing Angels, Fairies & Gymnasts at the Kelley Hunt Concert: Everyday Magic, Day 396
Sitting in the front row, Ken and I got to watch two levels of the show: Kelley and the band above, and the dancers below, some as young...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20112 min read
Watching Hurricane Irene Through the Window of the Computer: Everyday Magic, Day 395
Having grown up in New Jersey and having family there, I’ve been tracking Hurricane Irene like many of you. My brother lives three miles...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 27, 20112 min read
Why You Shouldn't Save a Skink By Its Tail or Untether a Spider From Your Rearview Window: Ever
I was just trying to help, honest. So when the cat brought in the iridescent skink, ready to tear off its limbs while purring loudly, I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 24, 20112 min read
Going Back to High School: Everyday Magic, Day 393
In August each year, Ken and I go back to high school. Standing in line with the other parents, who noodle into longer and thicker lines...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 23, 20113 min read
Roses From My Father-in-Law (Even Though He's Dead): Everyday Magic, Day 392
After a day, I realized that to my shame, Gene didn’t just buy me roses but my mother-in-law also. Both of us would receive a dozen or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 22, 20111 min read
"The Help," the Protest Against It And Why I Went To See It: Everyday Magic, Day 391
Sitting on Dora’s lap in our small Brooklyn apartment kitchen, I asked, “If the white people are so mean to the black people, why isn’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 21, 20114 min read
In Praise of Mexican Food: Everyday Magic, Day 390
I was right about my lifelong relationship with Mexican food. When I get home from Vermont, where really good Mexican food is scarce (at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 18, 20112 min read
News of My Demise Is Greatly Exagerated: Everyday Magic, Day 389
Well, I’m still poet laureate, and as I’ve written before, I still plan to finish my term, which ends next July, and to pass on this post...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20112 min read
Flower Bed of Death: Everyday Magic, Day 388
I start the garden each March with the best of intentions, but I’ve learned to accept that come July sometime, I will abandon all...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20111 min read
In Praise of Bathtubs: Everyday Magic, Day 387
I love baths because I’m encased in water. I love baths because I can sprinkle in eucalyptus and sweet orange essential oil and inhabit...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20112 min read
First Morning Back: Everyday Magic, Day 386
I didn’t go to sleep until well into the first morning back, the combination of 11 hours of planes, taxis, cars and long walkways...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 13, 20112 min read
