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What Do We Do?: Two Images, One Day: Everyday Magic, Day 1,120
In the face of so much happening so fast, it's hard to know what to do, especially when cruelty is at the wheel. So it's no wonder that I...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
3 hours ago4 min read
"Go Outside and Look for God" and Getting Through Impossible Times: Everyday Magic, Day 1,119
Friends walking in our field In the very long year that was January, Cindy, my acupuncturist, told me a story: another client of hers,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 45 min read
The Unbearable Vulnerability of Now: Everyday Magic, Day 1,112
Just about everyone I know is carrying a backpack full of anxiety, dread, despair, or anger, sometimes weighing into terror or rage. We...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 20, 20244 min read
Riding With Pack Rats and Waking With Weasels of Political Anxiety: Everyday Magic, Day 1,015
There it was -- a very large pack rat Ken was ready to fling with a pair of long tongs into the deep woods, far from where we could smell...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 12, 20243 min read
A Glimpse of the America We Could Be: Everyday Magic, Day 1,102
On the eve of July 4th, I saw what our deeply-divided and pitifully-polarized country could be in a Minneapolis city park. Above, around,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 6, 20244 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
Nov 22, 20233 min read
What the School Shootings Tell (or Could Tell) Us: Everyday Magic, Day 659
Two particular photos from the Newtown shooting break my heart. One is of a boy with his hands held tight over his mouth. A girl holds...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 15, 20123 min read
“No Way of Dividing What’s Yours & Mine When Everything is Shining” & My
Juxtaposed with the news reports in my head of the Republican National Convention, recent polling on the election, the impossibility of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 28, 20122 min read
Written in Occupation: Everyday Magic, Day 427
Around the perimeter, visitors and regulars stand at the gate and film what’s happening. Tourists walk through, giving out money or...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 17, 20112 min read
News of My Demise Is Greatly Exagerated: Everyday Magic, Day 389
Well, I’m still poet laureate, and as I’ve written before, I still plan to finish my term, which ends next July, and to pass on this post...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 16, 20112 min read
The Moment It Happened: A Poem For Keeping SRS Open In Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 368
Later she would say it was a miracle. Afterward he would tell friends it happened just in time. Someone answered the phone. Someone took...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 16, 20112 min read
When A Government Turns Against Its Own People: Everyday Magic, Day 365
There’s been a lot to be upset about in Kansas since the election of our new governor, much that affects people I love and me, but...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 12, 20113 min read
Ad Astra per Aspera and the Kansas Arts: Everyday Magic, Day 334
Ad Astra per Aspera: That’s the Kansas state motto, “to the stars, through difficulty.” It’s also the motto for any artist, writer,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 28, 20113 min read
What Is Wrong With This Picture, and Will the Real Kansans Please Stand Up?: Everyday Magic, Day 296
Today I felt like I was punched in the stomach when I read the news: the governor put on administrative leave the five employees of the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 11, 20112 min read
Bin Laden Dead And That Means What?: Everyday Magic, Day 286
A young person said to me this morning, “He was our generation’s Hitler, and now he’s dead.” I guess it’s not to me to judge her...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 2, 20111 min read
Welcome Home, Egyptians!: Everyday Magic, Days 207-208
I'm dreaming some of Egypt, feeling that joyous swoop of energy from yesterday, and all it says about the possibilities for tomorrow....
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 12, 20112 min read
Loving Peace and the Warriors: Everyday Magic, Day 201
I was thinking today about what’s happening in Egypt, and how, at Maura’s funeral, someone said she loved peace but also loved the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 5, 20112 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
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
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
