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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 102 min read
Being Refuges For Each Other and the Goodness of Jack: Everyday Magic, Day 1,118
I've been thinking lately about how we can be refuges of acceptance, calm,and love for each other. After all, it's been and it is a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 26, 20244 min read
Hope and the Candles That Keep Re-Igniting: Everyday Magic, Day 1,115
Happy birthday for a 2nd time On Christmas night, the first night of Hanukkah, and my sister-in-law Karen's birthday, we light a bunch of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 15, 20243 min read
25 Strange, Wonderful, Annoying, and Luminous Discoveries Last Week: Everyday Magic, Day 1,107
One October week: Hurricane Milton, Northern Lights, a colonoscopy, Yom Kippur, Louise Erdrich in town, Comet Purple Mountain, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 2, 20247 min read
What Talking About Books Across Kansas Can Do Over 32 Years: Everyday Magic, Day 1100
"So when we look at how a character changes the narrative of her life, we learn a lot about how we can do this too," I told ten people in...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 22, 20242 min read
In Praise of Herb: Everyday Magic, Day 1091
This weekend, we celebrated the 90th birthday of our friend Herb, hands down one of the most creative and loving humans I've ever met....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 22, 20233 min read
What Can We Do in Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1088
This morning, after waking once again at 5 a.m. freaked out about the state of the world, Gaza and Israel specifically, I eventually gave...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 31, 20234 min read
Your Jewish Friends Are Also Not Okay: Everyday Magic, Day 1087
I am an American Jew in love with the beauty of the world. I am a human in anguish over what others of my species are doing to one...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20233 min read
Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075
I was fifteen years ago and miserable when I first went to a youth group Havdalah service one winter evening. I was living with my very...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 8, 20232 min read
Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074
Juxtapositions — putting like with non-like — add zip, surprise, sometimes anxiety, and often uncertainty to our lives. They’re also at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 7, 20212 min read
The Call: Everyday Magic, Day 1057
This morning, I gave a short talk at the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation’s Rosh Hashana service on Shafarot, a calling to live...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20213 min read
In Praise of Goody: Everyday Magic, Day 1032
“The world will never be the same,” Ken told me right after Goody Garfield’s burial service. “We were witness to one of a kind, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 26, 20203 min read
Days of Awe in an Unusual Year: Everyday Magic, Day 1016
The Days of Awe — the 10 days between Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), it’s time to clean up our act. We...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 11, 20203 min read
If God Didn’t Want Us to Pray at Home, She Wouldn’t Have Invented Zoom: Everyday Magic,
Or Facebook Live. Or Youtube. Or any number of places to help us worship together while keeping physically apart and spiritually close. A...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 29, 20192 min read
Where I Live: A New Year’s Moment: Everyday Magic, Day 986
I’ve always lived in the wind and sky. From my Brooklyn bedroom, upstairs in a narrow triplex somewhere in East Flatbush, I would lean...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 31, 20192 min read
There But for Grace: Everyday Magic, Day 963
Eighteen years ago, we almost lost our youngest son Forest in a car accident involving black ice, three kids and me in a van, and the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 29, 20183 min read
Look for the Miriams: Everyday Magic, Day 956
A few hours after the Tree of Life shooting, we clung to each other — singing, praying, crying — at the Beth Israel Center in Madison,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 9, 20183 min read
On the Cusp of the Days of Awe: Everyday Magic, Day 953
This pre-Rosh Hashana afternoon, as I watch a dive-bombing hummingbird and a dozen others just trying to get a drink from our feeder, my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 18, 20173 min read
In Gratitude for Neil: Everyday Magic, Day 917
We sat at a small table in La Prima Tassa on a spring day filtering sunshine across our table, sipping tea and updating each other on our...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 9, 20172 min read
Losing and Finding My C’hai (Which is Not a Dala Horse): Everyday Magic, Day 915
At breakfast at the Swedish Country Inn in Lindsborg, Kansas, someone said she liked my tiny gold Dala horse necklace. It took me a...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 24, 20173 min read
Save the Humanities!: Everyday Magic, Day 894
Photo by Stephen Locke, used with permission The kids were already in the front seats when I arrived at the Coffey County Library branch...
