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The Beauty of Being Lost in a Great Big Airport Parking Lot: Everyday Magic, Day 903
We lost the car. We didn’t mean to. In fact, both Ken and I distinctly remember me writing down the number of the row where we parked ten...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 27, 20172 min read
Please Help Me Find Cover Art For Miriam's Well, My New Novel: Everyday Magic, Day 900
Miriam’s Well Synopsis From a young age Miriam sees visions she can’t cope with or stop. Growing up Jewish in Brooklyn with Aaron, her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 26, 20173 min read
"What It Takes": 63rd Anniversary of Brown Vs. Board of Education: Everyday Magic, Day 899
What It Takes It takes years of waiting on polished wooden benches outside trembling courtrooms. Thousands of meetings in church...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 22, 20172 min read
The Patron Saint of Just-Being Returns the Music: Everyday Magic, Day 892
In the two-plus years since our dear friend Jerry died, I’ve occasionally resumed my search for my Ipod mini, a little music player I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 3, 20172 min read
When Things Fall Apart (Or Seem To): Everyday Magic, Day 890
Since the inauguration our family has been living out a microcosm of the macrocosm. While the details aren’t mine to tell, let’s just say...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 3, 20172 min read
Tucked into the Clouds: Everyday Magic, Day 888
But what there is: a dog napping on the couch behind Christmas lights adorning shelves for the cats to climb and sleep on, skillet corn...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 16, 20171 min read
A New Year to Be Kind: Everyday Magic, Day 885
I know the Dalai Lama says his religion is kindness, but it took a while for this truth to catch up with me. As I get older, it overtakes...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 1, 20173 min read
Winter Solstice and the Shortest Day: Everyday Magic, Day 882
Nora Jones sings on my computer, Natalie naps under a Tardis blanket on the couch, and Miyako the cat bird-watches in the windowsill....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 21, 20162 min read
Birthdays, Graduations and Charmed Lives: Everyday Magic, Day 880
I’ve come across this bracelet before, like a treasure lost in a pond that comes ashore haphazardly, and put it away again as a relic of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 3, 20161 min read
Sustain the Beloved Community, and Reject the New Normal: Everyday Magic, Day 879
Like many people I know, I’m caught in a panoramic response to the presidential election. One moment, I’m crying, another I’m agonizing...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 18, 20164 min read
Voting for All the Girls, Women, and Beyond-Gender-People We Love, Know, Were or Are
When I walk into the voting booth Tuesday and pencil in the bubble for Clinton/Kaine, I have no doubt I’ll be crying in hope for who I’m...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 5, 20164 min read
A Beautiful Moment in a Time of Despair: Everyday Magic, Day 876
As I turn away from the news of collapsing politics and ecology, I also see this: the sky to the west is filling with clouds, the wind is...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 20161 min read
Emptynesting 2.0: Everyday Magic, Day 870
There’s no socks scattered on the living room floor or in between the sofa’s cushions. I open the refrigerator and can actually see my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 24, 20162 min read
Charles Is A Force of Nature: Everyday Magic, Day 862
Charles was one of the first Lawrencians I ever met, in about 1981 when I was a member of the Kansas City Sufi community, where Charles...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 15, 20163 min read
Saved (Again) By Music: Everyday Music, Day 860
Celebrating Claudia’s birthday at the concert with Michel Loomis Listening to the astonishingly spirited Claudia Schmidt perform a house...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 6, 20164 min read
The Growing Pains of Wild and Woolly Too-Muchness: Everyday Magic, Day 859
This Memorial Day weekend, I wrote and revised an obituary and memorial service after meeting with my friend’s family, organized some of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 31, 20161 min read
The Wild Weather of Dying: Everyday Magic, Day 892
For the last 11 days, my family’s life has been wrapped around the last phase of my mother-in-law’s life, first in the hospital, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 23, 20162 min read
Prevernal for the Vernal Equinox: Everyday Magic, Day 891
Prevernal The dogs stop. The deer over the loop of the field pause. The highway rising west clears. I wait. Let my breath make itself...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 21, 20161 min read
The Light, the Dark, and a Road Trip to Western Kansas: Everyday Magic, Day 890
I first presented the book to the marvelous Pioneer Memorial Library, which brought together close to 80 people in the basement for lunch...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 4, 20162 min read
People Can Surprise You: Everyday Magic, Day 889
Last night I dreamed I was a stand-up comic doing my first gig. There was mic trouble, and as I tried to riff off a list of topics I had...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 29, 20162 min read
