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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 15, 20233 min read
A Sudden Storm, a Sudden Death: Everyday Magic, Day 1085
Just before Kris told me at lunch she couldn’t wait for a good thunderstorm, Denise texted Judy and me, “On the way to the hospital. Not...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 4, 20232 min read
Back in the Porch in Big Wind: Everyday Magic, Day 1079
“Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter,” the Beatles sang, and while my winter wasn’t so lonely, it felt unduly long and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 12, 20224 min read
Being Made of Weather: Everyday Magic, Day 1060
Weather. That was the theme of the 2022 Symphony in the Flint Hills, and because of all my weather poetry, especially my poem “Being Made...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 16, 20222 min read
Force of Nature Day (Which is Actually Everyday): Everyday Magic, Day 1058
Yesterday began with running outside in our pajamas to cut irises as fast as possible while 70 mph winds and a giant thunderstorm...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 24, 20222 min read
A Limping Coyote in the Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 1051
Yesterday, I was surprised by how big he was, and how, from a distance, he looked sleek and strong. But then he came closer, making...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 20, 20212 min read
Meanwhile, the Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 1038
We are living in a world of rain lately, and according to the weather forecast, this is life as we know it into the foreseeable process. ...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20203 min read
The Peonies Where a Tornado, Cancer Diagnosis, and Pandemic Meet: Everyday Magic, Day 1007
As I watch the Pendleton’s peonies I just bought rush from tight little balls to full-throttle fireworks of blossoms, I keep thinking of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 23, 20202 min read
In the Cave of Winter: Everyday Magic, Day 994
Each day I crave a clear view of a clear sky, but fog, snow, sleet, rain, freezing rain, and variety packs of all this percipitation at...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 10, 20192 min read
A Lightening Up: Everyday Magic, Day 967
Daylight Savings Time, beside being a kick that keeps kicking our sleeping patterns for a while, heralds a kind of lightening up,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Feb 16, 20192 min read
Getting Through February (the Longest Month): Everyday Magic, Day 965
As life has repeatedly, February is the longest month. Maybe it’s the overwrought repetition of cold, ice, and snow after months of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 24, 20182 min read
The Beauty of Overgrowth: Everyday Magic, Day 940
With temperatures rising to summertime and good rains falling last week, everything is speeding into growth around this house. The hostas...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 3, 20182 min read
Weeding in the Rain: Everyday Magic, Day 938
I felt that call of the garden as soon as Ken and I stepped out for our evening walk around the edges of the fields. “Let’s just stay...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 31, 20182 min read
Annual Magnolia Walk: Everyday Magic, Day 935
I love magnolia trees. Let me be more honest: I really and deeply love magnolia blossoms, and it’s one of my recurring nightmares to miss...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 20, 20181 min read
Equinox Quirks in East Lawrence: Everyday Magic, Day 933
Nothing like a brisk walk on the first day of spring in East Lawrence with a good friend. Along the way, we saw many more friendly sites,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 16, 20182 min read
Prevernal Wonders: Everyday Magic, Day 932
I love the prevernal season perhaps best of all: that space between the start of spring and before the leafing out of the big, green...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 21, 20181 min read
First Lightning of the New Year: Everyday Magic, Day 925
The thunder comes rumbles to east, the lightning flashes irregularly in the southwest corner of my window, and the air is full. I open...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 3, 20182 min read
A Bright, Beautiful Day and Why I Blog: Everyday Magic, Day 923
I started and persist for two reasons: to build more of an audience for my books, workshops, and other freelancing curves of work, and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 20, 20173 min read
Hope on the Last Day of the Old Year: Everyday Magic, Day 912
I think of people in central Mexico, working frantically to unearth possible survivors from collapsed buildings from the 7.1 earthquake...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Sep 6, 20172 min read
An Expansive Kansas Road Trip in a Concise Time: Everyday Magic, Day 910
Kansas Humanities Council talk on wild weather in poetry, photography and our lives at one of the great community jewels-of-a-library,...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 11, 20171 min read
Just-Doing-That-Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 893
Snow, do you forsake the forsythia? This land’s Osage Indians, like many tribal people, named each month for its ecological context,...
