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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Jul 18, 20214 min read
The Inner and Outer Wildness That Brings Us Home: Everyday Magic, Day 1041
Here’s a post about my new podcast, “Tell Me Your Truest Story.” Please listen to the podcast here. For me, it’s always been the trees...
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
Oct 20, 20202 min read
When Winter Comes Stomping In: Everyday Magic, Day 1019
Suddenly, I’m searching for sweaters, cursing the lack of mittens with me for a walk, and shiver-driving around town for the interminable...
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 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
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 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
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 20, 20182 min read
Lightening Up for the Solstice: Everyday Magic, Day 959
Tomorrow the world turns over: our shortening days stop in their tracks, and the light begins lengthening those days for months to come....
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
Jul 31, 20182 min read
From Your Alley to My Kitchen: Everyday Magic, Day 947
Mostly, though, running the alleys means encounters with things I didn’t know I was looking for, such as new stools for our breakfast...
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
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
Feb 1, 20182 min read
Swirling Distractions of Winter Birds: Everyday Magic, Day 926
The starlings grabbed my attention while I was pacing the living room on a phone call. They poured diagonally down to the lawn, fanning...
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
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
Jul 11, 20172 min read
Endings and Beginnings at Midnight: Everyday Magic, Day 906
It is 12:04 a.m., and I”m writing this from our back deck where I sit cross-legged in a chair and stare up at two enormous trees. The...
