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What about grief?

March 3, 2021 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

This is overly autobiographical but I mean it as an illustration. It points toward something true for all of us, especially right now. I learned about the covert nature of grief the hard way. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: COVID, grief, healing

A blushing request

February 26, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

subversivepreacher.org is first and foremost, a ministry. Honestly, it is only a ministry. By ministry I mean literally the meaning of the two Greek words that compose its root: to be sent and to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons Tagged With: Apology, growth, like

While waiting for angels

February 24, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Photographer, Tracy Genovese, and I were overcome with restlessness at the same time. Our pandemic agitation led to a collaboration between poet and visual artist. Because it is was almost Lent, the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: angels, Facebook, wilderness

A Shot at Connecting

February 17, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

“I got mine.” It sounds like an awful personal injury law firm commercial in which a supposed client crows at getting a financial settlement, as if it was a birthright. But instead, I am referring to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: "I got mine", Community, connections, vaccine

Fear

February 10, 2021 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

“noun: fear; an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat...a feeling of anxiety concerning...safety and well-being... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: cities and towns, distance, fear, Segregation

The sneaky humility of Big Winter

February 3, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

I don’t know about you, but real cold (down into the teens and single digits) and enough snow to play in, seems like a godsend to me. As the sun comes up -- or more accurately, peeks through for just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: humility, Power, winter

The Good Life

January 27, 2021 By Cam Miller 16 Comments

The day we buried my father the church was full. Remarkable given that his nearly ninety-three years were cushioned by a quiet life. Just so you know, this isn’t really about my dad. He was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Good Life, Integrity, solo attorney

New Day, Mr. Frodo, a New Story

January 20, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

It is remote, a wonder how it was ever found. Even the entrance is obscure, overhead like an attic. Climb up a ladder to enter through a manhole size opening. It is not the only one of its kind on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Frodo, Inauguration, Story

About Rage

January 13, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

You may not have given much thought to rage, at least not until watching it be unleashed last Wednesday. I have known rage, as all of us have if we are honest about it. In the late 1960’s and early … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Hate, Rage, Wildness

Proposed Software Update

January 6, 2021 By Cam Miller 5 Comments

SELF-CHALLENGE: Write a column that has nothing to do with the pandemic, politics, or my dog. Here we are on January 6, 2021. Today and hover boards once seemed impossibly futuristic. I can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Mindset, New Beginning, Software update

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Each of these posts appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY) as an entry in the weekly series, “Denim Spirit.”

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