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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
If This Year Could Talk: Everyday Magic, Day 166
Hey, I’m 2010, and I’m exhausted. What a year! I tell you, I could use a good week of solid sleep, and I know I’m going to get it and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20102 min read
Remembering Ben, A Giant With a Giant Heart: Everyday Magic, Day 165
I met Ben in 1974 while working at my father’s stand, where I was ordered by my dad to stand on an old wooden table and yell out, “Two...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 30, 20103 min read
Leonard Cohen, "If It Be Your Will," and the End of the Year: Everyday Magic, Day 163
First, there are the words: “If it be your will/ that a voice be true/ from this broken hill/ I will sign to you/ from this broken hill/...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 28, 20101 min read
Happiness: Everyday Magic, Day 162
“Happiness. It comes on/ unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really….” Raymond Carver wrote in his poem “Happiness.” It isn’t the result of a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 27, 20101 min read
I Love December 26th: Everyday Magic, Day 161
It's the day after the big thing whether it was a big thing I celebrated -- starting with midnight mass at a massive Catholic church as a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 26, 20101 min read
This Is My Life: Climate Disaster, Gonzo Cartoons & Rock'n'roll: Everyday Magic, Days 159-60
Ken passionately tells me just how bad climate change is, how it’s exceeding all expectations, and with the effects of La Nina, next...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 24, 20102 min read
Remembering Mark, Rob and Others Gone: Everyday Magic, Day 158
Rob was a river rat, tree flying trimmer extraordinaire, coffee-drinking-from-a-mason-jar, dreamboat prairie man who dated some of my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 23, 20101 min read
