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Hearing Larry Maxey Play: Everyday Magic, Day 188
How we ever got Larry to play with us is a mystery, but for years, he’s been showing up with his clarinet and blowing us out of the water...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 22, 20111 min read
In Praise of Neighbors: Everyday Magic, Day 187
Our neighbor does this for us and my mother-in-law, refusing payment, as his way of being a good neighbor. He also knows our tractor — a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20111 min read
The Gift Of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's Recovery: Everyday Magic, Day 186
Like many of you, I've been following the news about Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, smiling whenever I hear more news of her recovery: she's...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 20, 20112 min read
Where Have All the Cameras Gone? The Art of Losing Is Too Easy to Master: Everyday Magic, Day 185
You see, we have a history of leaking cameras. In the last year, we (the collective family since no one knows for sure who last used it)...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 19, 20111 min read
The Impossible & Miraculous: Remembering Dad: Everyday Magic, Days 183-184
My dad — Hugh Melvyn Goldberg, but everyone called him Mel — was an impossibly difficult person to know, let alone be related to, so much...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20112 min read
When Life Puts Life In Perspective: Everyday Magic, Day 182
Just as we were leaving the house to dance our butts off and eat delectables at a Bar Mitzvah celebration, my little phone rang. I looked...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 16, 20112 min read
Why the Arts Matter: Everyday Magic, Day 181
The arts matter because when I felt all out of sorts this morning, my itunes suddenly started playing a beautiful Swedish waltz that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 14, 20112 min read
The Music of Fiddler Andrea Hoag: Everyday Magic, Day 180
About a decade or so ago, I had the pleasure of working with a student at Goddard College named Andrea Hoag. Although I loved her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 14, 20111 min read
Talking That Heals, Not Wounds: Everyday Magic, Days 178-179
But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized -– at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 13, 20112 min read
1/11/11, Bonnie Raitt's Song & Tucson's Tragedy: Everyday Magic, Day 177
Yet I know, when the wind sweeps me clear of my luggage for a moment, or when a tragedy such as what happened in Tucson breaks open my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 11, 20112 min read
Remembering the Six Who Died in Tucson, and Sending Peace: Everyday Magic, Day 176
I sit in a comfortable chair, wearing cuddle-duds and yoga clothing, my feet stretched out and the windows I’m facing full of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 10, 20112 min read
Not By Might and Not By Power: The Passing of Debbie Friedman and the Tucson Tragedy: Everyday Magic
All day, Friedman’s song “Not by Might and Not by Power” runs through my mind because of its simply chorus, carrying an old testament...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 9, 20111 min read
Sing the Misheberech for Debbie Friedman: Everyday Magic, Day 174
I’m one of those people. Through my breast cancer, surgeries and chemotherapy for 14 months, every Friday night at the Lawrence Jewish...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20112 min read
Silver Light: Everyday Magic, Day 173
This afternoon, the light turned silver as a cold front powered its way through our unusually warm and golden days. The light lifted...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 7, 20111 min read
The Magic of Brave Voice: Everyday Magic, Day 172
When Kelley and I started designing the Brave Voice writing and singing retreat about seven years ago, we envisioned a clearing, a place...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 6, 20112 min read
Choosing Yoga Over Typer Shark: Everyday Magic, Day 171
For years, I couldn’t understand what my kids saw in playing video games into What’s more disturbing is that as I played, I felt this...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 5, 20111 min read
When the Veil is Thin: Everyday Magic, Day 170
"It's a time when the veil is just thinner," my friend Denise told me when I asked her about the feeling I had that the sacred was just...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 4, 20111 min read
Cats Taught Us To Lie: Everyday Magic, Day 169
I walked in the door after yoga today, and immediately Miyako, our sweet little cat, rushed to the laundry room threshold and told me...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 3, 20111 min read
What I Learned In 2010: Everyday Magic, Day 168
2010 is toast. Here’s what it taught me in a nutshell: With a cheap, plastic sewing machine under hand, I can still sew…..and to my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 2, 20112 min read
When Kelley Hunt Sings: Everyday Magic, Day 167
Last night, once again, I was transported along with many others on and around the dance floor when Kelley Hunt and her band brought us...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20112 min read
