Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/ Poet, Writer, Facilitator & Transformative Language Artist Sun, 12 Mar 2023 16:50:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 137095413 Known & Lesser-Known Stages of Covid in Our House: Everyday Magic, Day 1078 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/known-lesser-known-stages-of-covid-in-our-house-everyday-magic-day-1078/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/known-lesser-known-stages-of-covid-in-our-house-everyday-magic-day-1078/#comments Sun, 12 Mar 2023 16:44:21 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16336 We managed to avoid getting Covid for almost three years, to the point that when that screaming hot pink line appeared on the test strip one late night, my first thought was that the test must be flawed. But the body overrules denial in most cases, and the strange but well-documented symptoms began their Dada-esque

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]]> https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/known-lesser-known-stages-of-covid-in-our-house-everyday-magic-day-1078/feed/ 1 16336 Bruce Springsteen, Grace, and Mortality in Kansas City: Everyday Magic, Day 1077 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/bruce-springsteen-grace-and-mortality-in-kansas-city-everyday-magic-day-1077/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/bruce-springsteen-grace-and-mortality-in-kansas-city-everyday-magic-day-1077/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2023 17:00:20 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16231 A few days ago I went to my seventh and perhaps my last Springsteen concert, which was (as always) a tour de force love child of sacred pilgrimage and family reunion. Just seeing Bruce with all his living (and dead in a video and likely in spirit) band mates for over 50 years, plus the

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]]> https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/bruce-springsteen-grace-and-mortality-in-kansas-city-everyday-magic-day-1077/feed/ 1 16231 The Power of Music: Everyday Magic, Day 1076 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/the-power-of-music-everyday-magic-day-1076/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/the-power-of-music-everyday-magic-day-1076/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:37:13 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16225 This is the week of the Bruces for me — I saw Bruce Cockburn in concert Thurs. night, and Sat. night, I’m off to see Bruce Springsteen for the umpteenth time. Today as I listened to some of my favorite Cockburn songs (like “Wondering Where the Lions Are”), then bumped into a full Springsteen concert

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]]> https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/the-power-of-music-everyday-magic-day-1076/feed/ 1 16225 Defining Moments in the Dark: Everyday Magic, Day 1075 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/defining-moments-in-the-dark-everyday-magic-day-1075/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/defining-moments-in-the-dark-everyday-magic-day-1075/#respond Sat, 21 Jan 2023 18:24:08 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16196 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 difficult father in a big house, so much bigger now that my mother and siblings had moved out, and I was the loneliest I had or have ever been,

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]]> https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/defining-moments-in-the-dark-everyday-magic-day-1075/feed/ 0 16196 Juxtapositions Make Life Interesting: Everyday Magic, Day 1074 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/juxtapositions-make-life-interesting-everyday-magic-day-1074/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/juxtapositions-make-life-interesting-everyday-magic-day-1074/#respond Sun, 08 Jan 2023 23:13:42 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16180 Juxtapositions — putting like with non-like — add zip, surprise, sometimes anxiety, and often uncertainty to our lives. They’re also at the heart of what makes poetry poetry: images and language you don’t expect together that pop open new ways to see the world. So let’s just say it’s more a more-than-poetic weekend (or life).

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]]> https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/juxtapositions-make-life-interesting-everyday-magic-day-1074/feed/ 0 16180 The Dark of the Dark, the Cold of the Cold: Everyday Magic, Day 1073 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/the-dark-of-the-dark-the-cold-of-the-cold-everyday-magic-day-1073/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/the-dark-of-the-dark-the-cold-of-the-cold-everyday-magic-day-1073/#comments Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:53:39 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16174 In the middle of the longest night of the year, my anxiety search dogs kept jarring me awake, running amok while looking for something to chew on. Tiny and medium-sized annoyances, worries, and sadnesses gripped me at 1:05 a.m., 3:33 a.m., and at a higher speed between 4:15-5:15 a.m. for some reason. “Chill out,” I

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]]> https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/the-dark-of-the-dark-the-cold-of-the-cold-everyday-magic-day-1073/feed/ 1 16174 For the Love of Aunt Jill: Everyday Magic, Day 1072 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/for-the-love-of-aunt-jill-everyday-magic-day-1072/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/for-the-love-of-aunt-jill-everyday-magic-day-1072/#respond Sun, 04 Dec 2022 21:24:00 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16130 “I’m not going to leave a message,” my sister Lauren said when she left a message Friday. I was standing in the corner of an ebullient restaurant where Ken and I were having dinner with friends. I had slipped away from the table when I saw texts from two of my three siblings to call

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]]> https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/27-things-im-grateful-for-everyday-magic-day-1071/feed/ 0 16113 Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?: Everyday Magic, Day 1070 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/does-anyone-really-know-what-time-it-is-everyday-magic-day-1070/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/does-anyone-really-know-what-time-it-is-everyday-magic-day-1070/#respond Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:23:35 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16088 Time continually befuddles me, so much so that my last book of poetry was called How Time Moves, and I’m still deep in the muck of figuring out what time is and how it keeps slipping through my fingers and surging backwards under my moving feet. Being a little number-dyslexic, I also stumble mightily when

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]]> https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/does-anyone-really-know-what-time-it-is-everyday-magic-day-1070/feed/ 0 16088 Tuning In To Realer News: Everyday Magic, Day 1069 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/tuning-in-to-realer-news-everyday-magic-day-1069/ https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/tuning-in-to-realer-news-everyday-magic-day-1069/#respond Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:05:28 +0000 https://www.carynmirriamgoldberg.com/?p=16053 I’ve stopped tuning into most of what we call news until after the midterms. It isn’t because I don’t care, quite the contrary, but because I keep learning that the realer news is right out the front or back door, which is also a great remedy for tangling myself in the land of what-ifs. Unlike

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