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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Nov 20, 20244 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
Sep 12, 20243 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
Jul 6, 20244 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
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
Dec 15, 20123 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
Aug 28, 20122 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
Oct 17, 20112 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
Aug 16, 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
Jul 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 11, 20113 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
May 28, 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 11, 20112 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 2, 20111 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
Feb 12, 20112 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 5, 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
Jan 20, 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 14, 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 13, 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 11, 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 10, 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...
