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Poet Laureati-ed: Everyday Magic, Days 234-235
Margery Wentworth (SC), Joyce Brinkman (IN) & Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (VA) I return to the world I knew before this event to find it...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 15, 20112 min read
Japan: Everyday Magic, Days 232-233
Dedicated to my dear friend, Karen Campbell I keep thinking of Japan. As the news worsens, I catch glimpses of it, feel my little heart...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 13, 20112 min read
Maybe We'll Know What We Meant When We're Dead: Everyday Magic, Day 231
Yesterday was extraordinarily charged in a quirky, painful and tender way. Within several hours, I stumbled into an unexpected...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 10, 20111 min read
Fog Day: Everyday Magic, Day 230
I don’t function well in fog, the blurring of sky and earth and pressure of the air something I feel inside as well as all around me. It...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 9, 20111 min read
How Many Poets Laureate Does It Take To Screw In A Lightbulb?: Everyday Magic, Day 229
We'll find out very soon because starting this weekend, the poets are coming: 20 poets laureate from Alabama to Alaska, and South...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 7, 20112 min read
About That Life From Other Planets….:Everyday Magic, Day 228
In a nutshell, there is evidence that some meteorites contain evidence of life beyond earth, but this evidence hasn’t yet been vetted by...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 7, 20111 min read
There is Life in the Universe Beyond Earth: Everyday Magic, Day 227
It may look like a ghost of a worm, but this is a fossil of filaments from an extraterrestrial lifeform Okay, so we’ve known this in our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 6, 20112 min read
Good Morning, Sunshine: Everyday Magic, Day 226
I took the eye pad off, and there it was: light, bright blue sky with the most pastel of clouds, a pale breeze shimming the bare branch,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 5, 20112 min read
The Language of Art: Everyday Magic, Days 224-225
With Llewellyn Crain, the visionary and hard-working Kansas Arts Commission executive director Last night, along with about 400 other...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20113 min read
Wichita Lineman In Wichita: Everyday Magic, Days 223-22
Okay, so it was a schmaltzy synchronicity, but decades immediately lined up with the road I was on. I remembered listening to Glen...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 2, 20111 min read
Last Day of the Longest Month of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 222
At the cusp of darkness, I went to a yoga class with Kelley, and as I pushed and pulled myself through the I-can’t-do-this-ness of the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 28, 20111 min read
"Cinderella Can Itch If Not Sweeping": Everyday Magic, Day 221
“Cinderella can itch if not sweeping” “Initially looked like ordinary writing guidebooks, with typical crisp style dialogue among...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 27, 20111 min read
Red-Winged Blackbirds in a Field of Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 220
In little time, the large feeder was empty, and Ken cajoled me to step outside in my slippers and refill it. Of course just opening the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 26, 20111 min read
Snow to Snow Travel, Night Clouds & Snow Fog: Everyday Magic, Day 219
What I left: Goddard College yesterday Close to 3:30 Vermont time, I walked into my home after a somewhat harrowing 30 mph drive on...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 25, 20111 min read
Suspended Animation in Cleveland: Everyday Magic, Days 217-218
Cleveland, nothing against you, but I don’t really know you, and sitting in this airport for hours isn’t helping the matter. I’ve...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20112 min read
The Office Is Quiet & The World Is Calm: Everyday Magic, Day 216
Some of the students the didn't speak with today (but did obviously take their picture) This desk? It’s in room 202 of the Community...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 21, 20111 min read
After Falling Down the Rabbit Hole: Everyday Magic, Day 215
Residencies make their own magic, and I would even say their own reality except this reality is quite real: what happens here is a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 20, 20111 min read
It Might As Well Be Spring: Everyday Magic, Day 214
A steady bright rain falls past all the windows as the bright blue of the sky shines through. It’s 58 degrees and February in Vermont,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 18, 20112 min read
Alchemy, Art and Knowledge That Matters and Connects: Everyday Magic, Days 212-213
Teaching at Université du Québec à Rimouski, she works with undergraduates and graduates, encouraging them to find this knowledge. In her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 17, 20112 min read
Sweet Dreams from Vermont: Everyday Magic, Day 211
Dark fills the windows, wind calls around us, and the wood stove in the basement sends up and out its steady hot breath. I listen to the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 14, 20111 min read
