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September Bumble Bee

September 13, 2023 By Cam Miller 8 Comments

Some days just picking up that first foot to take that first step is a chore. You know what I’m talking about, when your foot and your leg just feel heavy and your hip is tight and walking feels more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: 12-Steps, bumble bee, one step

Ah September

September 6, 2023 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

A neighbor visited me on the porch the other day. It was our local red-tailed hawk. She (I think it is a she) just flew in and settled on the nearby gutter. The friendly downy woodpecker, host of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Finger Lakes, snow, Storms

Going to Sleep and Waking Up Decades Later

August 30, 2023 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Did you ever wake yourself up snoring? You don’t have to admit it but I’m going to assume you have. I did one afternoon this week when I fell asleep in a chair. I had a knee replacement surgery … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: DOJ, FBI, Snore

The Marathon of Love That Never Ends

August 27, 2023 By Cam Miller 12 Comments

Imagine a wedding ceremony in which the couple has just exchanged their vows. Now parents, siblings, wedding party, or other friends gather around and circle the couple. One at a time each of these … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons Tagged With: Love, Marathon, marriage

With my morning coffee

August 23, 2023 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

I mentioned them last fall, when they stood sentry in witness to all the other flowers that had passed onto their next life. They are my neighbor’s Black-eyed Susans joyously exploding from out of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: morning coffee, sparrows, Verbena

A Truth Stew Composed of Glories and Sorrows

August 16, 2023 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Historian Jon Meacham points out we have only truly been a multi-racial democracy since 1965. Before then, so many of us were disenfranchised and unable to vote, even long after the enslavement of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Bonus Army, Eleanor, Hoover

As If in a Dream

August 9, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

In a dream I arrived in the dark, not a star in the sky. The moon had set and all I knew is that my car was parked in a hotel lot and I was dog tired. I slumped forward with a suitcase in tow and made … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: David Brooks, dream, Other shoe

The Last Two Weeks of July

August 2, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I mentioned last column that I was on garden duty while my wife was gone for two weeks. It is with some satisfaction and relief that I can report the flowers lived. The deer and groundhog did some … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Deadline, Manuscript, Publication

Match Making Shy Atoms

July 26, 2023 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

“The river and its waves are one surf: where is the difference between the river and its waves? When the wave rises, it is the water; and when it falls, it is the same water again...” These are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Hydrogen and Oxygen, Water, Watershed

Blessing with Patience

July 19, 2023 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

I don’t garden. Some people love it -- my wife does. When we built our present home the concept was that it would be low maintenance so we could leave for extended periods of time if we chose. But you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: gardening, Nurturing, patience

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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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