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The Everyday Magic Blog

I'm so happy to share my blog, started in 2008 as part of my writing practice and as way to connect directly with you! Please peruse the blog, and sign up to get the latest posts. You can also get my beautifully-produced and illustrated collection of many blog posts, Everyday Magic: Fieldnotes on the Mundane and the Miraculous through Meadowlark Press here. Thanks for being part of my everyday magic.

The World is On Fire: Everyday Magic, Day 983

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...

A Quiet Summer Evening With a Side of Peaches: Everyday Magic, Day 982

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...

When the World Opens Its Heart to My Ears, Cicadas and All: Everyday Magic, Day 979

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...

Preparing to Be Unprepared and Other Quirks of Cancer: Everyday Magic, Day 975

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...

Naming the Turtles on a Healing Journey: Everyday Magic, Day 974

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...

A Snake, A Wedding, and Faith: Everyday Magic, Day 972

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...

The Power of Blossoms: Everyday Magic, Day 971

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...

Unexpected Graces: Everyday Magic, Day 970

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...

Driving Home the Full Moon: Everyday Magic, Day 969

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...

In Praise of Mary Oliver: Everyday Magic, Day 962

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...

Looking for Patterns and Finding Them Everywhere: Everyday Magic, Day 961

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...

Surprises From 2018: Everyday Magic, Day 960

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...

Holding Tight To Bliss Road in a Time of Climate Change: Everyday Magic, Day 955

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...

Rituals of Pause as the Big Rocks in the Jar: Everyday Magic, Day 950

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...

“How Aren’t You?”: Hummingbirds, Rumi, and Twilight: Everyday Magic, Day 949

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...

I’m in Love With a Great Lake: Everyday Magic, Day 946

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%...

Annual Pilgrimage to Our Patron Saint: Mary Chapin Carpenter: Everyday Magic, Day 944

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...

The Beauty of Overgrowth: Everyday Magic, Day 940

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...

I’m in Love With Irises (Peonies Too): Everyday Magic, Day 939

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

May 16, 20182 min read

I’m in Love With Irises (Peonies Too): Everyday Magic, Day 939

Why are they so mind-blowingly beautiful? Is it the delicate petal, something between paper and flesh? Or the enormous resilience of...

Sparkling Night Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 787

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

Feb 18, 20141 min read

Sparkling Night Snow: Everyday Magic, Day 787

The daytime snow doesn’t glitter like the nighttime snow, but it’s ruffled with ridges Tonight as I walked from the center of campus to...

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