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I think you’re going to want to read this…or maybe you can’t decide

March 22, 2023 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Denim Spirit: Consonance and Dissonance Double-mindedness can feel like a problem that needs to be resolved. At least I often feel the need to fix it when it takes over my heard or heart. It is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Consonance, Disonance, double-mindedness

An Ode to Pie

March 15, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is an ode to pie. You may think it a trivial pursuit to praise pie, but I say good pie is one of the finest master strokes of human creativity – culinary or otherwise. First, a word about an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Blueberry pie, Cherry pie, Ode

Too much time to think…

March 8, 2023 By Cam Miller 15 Comments

When I wrote this I was in the Berkshires, in that little tail end that peeks into New York and stops before it gets to the Hudson River. There was snow in the woods! Not tons of it but a blanket … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Berkshires, HGTV, racism

That we do not know what we do not know, is data – got that?

March 1, 2023 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

We know so little. Yet without even knowing what we don’t know, we still have to decide. Back in the early 1980’s the Cold War was intensifying. Reagan was pouring huge amounts of money into the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Data, Decision, Don't know

Sunrise

February 23, 2023 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

When is a sermon not a sermon? When it is a newspaper column. This is how you take a sermon, redux it to five hundred words, take religion out of it, and make the spirituality inherent in it implied … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: black holes, Galaxy, Humility lens

Or

February 15, 2023 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

February 14th bathing in the dawning sun watching ducks drift by -- no wind, no gloves, open jacket. Uneasy with this climate change I still soaked it up. Imagine insisting on a choice between wind … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: all, both, either, or

My train is showing

February 8, 2023 By Cam Miller 18 Comments

This is dangerous territory. I am going to comment on something beyond my cultural acumen, critiquing something I try not to participate in and don’t understand. The Grammy’s -- as a metaphor not a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Decadence, Grammy's, Hunger Games

Making Room for Two Things at Once

February 1, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Here is a favorite saying of mine: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” It’s no less apt just because Vladimir Lenin said it. I am feeling that some … [Read more...]

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Thank You!

January 31, 2023 By Cam Miller 3 Comments

Thank you. Thank you for sharing in this online spiritual community. I am humbled again and again by its reach across national boundaries and continents, across religious traditions and among those … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons Tagged With: gratitude, Peace be with you, Thank you

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

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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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