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Hope Secularized: Super Power for Mortals

December 30, 2020 By Cam Miller 3 Comments

It is a very thin line between secular and sacred. In fact, there need not be anything at all separating them. If you have read even a few posts from subversivepreacher, then you know I am all about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Hope, super power, wishful thinking

What Meatballs Have To Do With It

December 23, 2020 By Cam Miller 10 Comments

How to make meatballs round is a deep, philosophical question? Wegmans does it but make them at home and isn’t one side always a little flat? Turn them often of course, but still one side of that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Like cooking like life, Meatballs, tradition

What’s in the silence

December 16, 2020 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Google went silent worldwide Monday morning and everyone who has email through the tech monopoly went quiet. Although different kinds of quiet, I wonder which would bring more silence to the world, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Hearing acutely, Seeing clearly, Silence

Rabia Goes to School

December 9, 2020 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

My dog, Rabia, has several new friends. She shares her lake with Olive, Honey, Skippy, Herald, Lucy, and Ellie. For a dog like Rabia, this is a happy abundance. Fortunately for their owners, Rabia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Dog training, Maskless, Masks

Healing?

December 2, 2020 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

I do not know how to introduce this topic so that readers on the left and the right won’t immediately react by rejecting or embracing it as political. I would rather us take a deep breath and ponder … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Co-dependency, Dysfunction, healing

The Amazing Complexity of Thanksgiving

November 25, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

What do feminism, war, political divisiveness, humanism versus Christian nationalism, Jefferson versus Lincoln, Mary had a little lamb, and the Finger Lakes have in common? Thanksgiving. On October … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Penitence, Praise, Thanksgiving

Shrinking

November 18, 2020 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

For those who might be concerned, this photo is of a fake shrunken head at "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" in Florida The life of the mind seems to be getting smaller as the pandemic throbs on. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: mind, pandemic, privilege

Sharing a Nation

November 11, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Tracking our emotions in the wake of the election has been like searching through the rubble of a ruined home. There is the sharp hazard of broken glass, uncertainty about the structural integrity of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Election, turmoil, two-edged sword

Separation

November 4, 2020 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Just so you know, when I wrote this I had no idea what we would be waking up to on November 4th. Whatever happened yesterday at least one thing won’t be changing because there was an election: the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: practicing love, Separation, social distance

Almostness

October 28, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Enduring the pandemic is like living in a tunnel - we can look behind us and remember how things were, and we can look to the light ahead but have no idea how long it will take or how hard it will be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Almostness, grief, pandemic

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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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