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Under the Snow

January 25, 2023 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Across the thumb-shaped north end of the lake, if your vantage point is near the mouth of the Lake Tunnel, there is a puffed up open expanse of farmland. By my reckoning it runs between the Geneva … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Beauty, Celebrity, snow

A Monday in Geneva

January 18, 2023 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

I moved to Geneva on a Saturday in January. I wasn’t supposed to begin work as the minister at Trinity Church on South Main for a week, except it was Martin Luther King weekend and the celebration was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Geneva, MLK, Next Generation

Wild Geese in the Clouds

January 11, 2023 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

The ceiling has hung low in the darkness of these mornings, shrouding the dawn in a blanket of clouds. Sunrise and moonrise have been hidden by winter gray padding the the skies while keeping the sun … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Blanket of clouds, right-wing rabble, Wild Geese

Moon Rise

January 4, 2023 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Did you ever see the full moon rise? I can’t remember ever watching a moonrise before my neighbor, Jill, told us about it last summer. Standing out on long pier on a clear evening, we oohed and aahed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, Moonrise, Time

Happy New Year!

December 31, 2022 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

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Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons

Remember when it was cold?

December 28, 2022 By Cam Miller 7 Comments

I am writing this on December 24th shortly after walking Rabia in four degrees with a minus-sixteen windchill. By the time you read this we’ll be peering into fifty degree weather. My first thought … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: MAGA, memory, moving forward

On the 25th…

December 21, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Today is the fourth day of Chanukah and there are four days left until Christmas. It is the perfect occasion to mention how they are connected. The Gospel of John (10:22) makes a passing reference to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Antiochus IV, Chanukah, Christmas

The Music Found Me

December 14, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

The music found me. It fingered my nerves like ivories, hammers on the strings pulling my toes up and down. All the way up the music moved -- my head side to side, my heart a beat faster. I was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Coltrane, Long Drive, Music

The Circle Be Unbroken

December 7, 2022 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

A shout out to Allen! I hope I’m spelling his name correctly. He is my senior by a number of years, I am guessing, but he is still running...and running...and running. Every day in fact. You may … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Aging, Running, Suffering and Death

In Celebration of the Herd

November 30, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

One party over, several more to go: Rohatsu (Bodhi Day) -- Buddhism Hanukkah -- Judaism The Unprecedented Martyrdoms -- Sikhism Winter Solstice -- Wicca and Paganism Christmas -- … [Read more...]

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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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