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Trust

September 7, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

  In between columns about birds and butterflies, I actually think about my role as a columnist. Perhaps it is because I am a preacher by profession and recognize there is a vast difference … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT

Lakefront Extravaganza

August 31, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

I wasn’t going to do this because I wrote about crows last week. Then I witnessed an osprey extravaganza. Rabia and I had just bid adieu to Olive and Brian, frequent morning pals along the lakefront. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Osprey, Rabia, September Butterflies

I Have A Question for Readers

August 29, 2022 By Cam Miller 57 Comments

Sometime in the next year I will begin a major overhaul of the subversivepreacher website, which includes a redirection of writing focus. What I know in advance, is that the weekly newspaper column, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons Tagged With: Future, Questions, responses

Crows

August 24, 2022 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

I love crows. I realize there are reasons not to, but for just a minute hover over these reasons to marvel at them. To judge the relative capacity of a species’s brain, it isn’t how big the gray … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: class, Crows, pecking order

Yelling “Fire!” in a Theater

August 17, 2022 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

A Geneva police officer was upset when he thought a city counselor had scrawled unflattering words about police on the sidewalk, in chalk, in front of the Public Safety Building during a public … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: character, Resentment, yelling "fire!"

A Distorted Lens

August 10, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

People are not red or blue. I wrote about this back in 2016 but it seems even more important now. The FBI was granted a search warrant for a former President’s residence and that legal action is being … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Binary, Lens, Red and Blue

Powerful Summer

August 3, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

My wife and oldest daughter are playing cribbage at the dinning room table with the dog napping in the corner nearby. My youngest daughter is poking away on her laptop while our two grandsons are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: F.O.B., Fishing, summer

Solipsism

July 27, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Economists don’t measure costs in the Gross National Product formula. Only growth. Any action, behavior, or labor within any relationship, organization, or community has a corresponding cost to it’s … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Cost, Economist, GDP, growth

19 and 97

July 20, 2022 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

I was on vacation and didn’t want to read about Joe Manchin assisting our mass suicide by killing climate change legislation. I didn’t want to read about Russian brutality in Ukraine, nor the systemic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Montana, Ross Douthat, vacation

Hey, what are all these people doing here?

July 13, 2022 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

I never lived in a vacation destination before. Geneva is rocking. Have you looked into a local hotel lately -- just one of the standard ones, not a boutique inn or anything. The hotels must be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: economy, Geneva, tourism

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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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