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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 12, 20204 min read
Dear Me: Stop Freaking Out: Everyday Magic, Day 999
Dear Me (and Dear Me!), I know you’re crazy-scared about the coronavirus. How could anyone paying attention not be when the closings and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Prayer for the New Year & Bonus Posts: Everyday Magic, Day 993
Although 2020 is already underfoot, this is my first blog post of the year, and it’s the first post that will go out to all of you who...
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
Aug 28, 20193 min read
The World is On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 983
For the last three weeks, the Amazon burns, and just today, according to The New York Times, more than 500 Brazilian government employees...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 14, 20191 min read
A Quiet Summer Evening With a Side of Peaches: Everyday Magic, Day 982
This has been a summer of porch-sitting, and as eye recovery and associated surprises and lessons continue their roaring hum, I’ve done...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 11, 20192 min read
When the World Opens Its Heart to My Ears, Cicadas and All: Everyday Magic, Day 979
For a writer who loves reading, movies, watching James Corden Cross-walk theater videos, and visually scanning the world for so much of...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jun 11, 20193 min read
Preparing to Be Unprepared and Other Quirks of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 975
As I get ready for surgery at high noon on Friday to implant a teeny-tiny gold bowl bearing radiation under my right eye, I realize how...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
May 27, 20195 min read
Naming the Turtles on a Healing Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 974
Throughout my healing journey — the cancer diagnosis and visits with three oncologists, the big-time scans and fears, the joys and...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 27, 20192 min read
A Snake, A Wedding, and Faith: Everyday Magic, Day 972
When I saw the video, I was amazed at how calm and calming the humans and, to some extent, the snake were in doing what it took for the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 21, 20192 min read
The Power of Blossoms: Everyday Magic, Day 971
Emily Dickinson writes, “I started early — Took my dog.” In my case, I started late and took my croissant, and unlike Dickinson, I wasn’t...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Apr 7, 20191 min read
Unexpected Graces: Everyday Magic, Day 970
On our trip to Brooklyn, New York City, and New Jersey — aka the mothership for me — grace abounded, often like a slip of paper or wings...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Mar 23, 20192 min read
Driving Home the Full Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 969
I was also simultaneously tired and exhilarated, in part because of the moon the night before keeping me up despite my...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 18, 20194 min read
In Praise of Mary Oliver: Everyday Magic, Day 962
I can’t remember when I first encountered Oliver’s poetry, but I know this: it wasn’t when I was doing a PhD in poetry despite my comps...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jan 9, 20193 min read
Looking for Patterns and Finding Them Everywhere: Everyday Magic, Day 961
When Ken and I went to Mount St. Helens with friends several years ago, I was dazzled by the patterned forests full of checkerboard green...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Dec 31, 20183 min read
Surprises From 2018: Everyday Magic, Day 960
In reading Kate Bowler’s evocative essay, “How Cancer Changes Hope” and revising poems for my next book, How Times Moves, I’ve been...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 22, 20182 min read
Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955
The big picture mind-blowing expanses are all around, from a distance golden variegated hazes that upon closer range become crazy quilts...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 18, 20182 min read
Rituals of Pause as the Big Rocks in the Jar: Everyday Magic, Day 950
What Neela, a marvelous integrative physician and founder of Atma Clinic, said rocked my world. Wait, what about all the things I need to...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Aug 8, 20183 min read
“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949
In one of Rumi's poems, I love these lines especially: Reach your long hands out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 23, 20183 min read
I’m in Love With a Great Lake: Everyday Magic, Day 946
I’m in love with Lake Superior, and the more I visit, the deeper I fall. Not only is this the greatest of the Great Lakes, containing 10%...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 4, 20183 min read
Annual Pilgrimage to Our Patron Saint: Mary Chapin Carpenter: Everyday Magic, Day 944
This year Kelley Hunt and I trekked to Wichita for a long day’s night to the Wabi Sabi (beautiful, decaying, and full of soul and...
