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Dream Recovery

December 29, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

It takes four days for the impregnated cell to reach the uterus then multiply from one cell to eight, to a hundred. Two weeks more and those cells multiply and become layered in concentric circles … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: dream, New Year's, Season

Merry Christmas!

December 25, 2021 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

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A Spirit of Community

December 22, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

First of all, Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, whichever is best for you! This is not Christmas 2020, thank goodness. The only reason it’s not is the widespread accessibility of vaccinations. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Christmas, Community, interdependence

Please don’t sit on it

December 15, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

When I was young I went to camp in southern Indiana. If you have only driven across the middle of the state on I-70 then you likely think the state is flat-on-flat cornfields. But the southern third … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Aging, Mentoring, wisdom

This is not normal…

December 8, 2021 By Cam Miller 12 Comments

Now that we are safely bedded down between Thanksgiving and Christmas, not too close to either one to feel like a killjoy, allow me to share a fear with you. “Fear” may be a misnomer because I am not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Danger, Fascism, Violence

New World

December 1, 2021 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Outside the plow is scrapping two inches of snow off the road. My sidewalk required shoveling this morning too. In short, winter has arrived in our small corner of the world. Preparing for winter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Geneva, snow, winter

Rabia and I wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!

November 24, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Thank you. Just thank you. ”My work is loving the world...” Mary Oliver begins her poem, “Messenger.” It is worth looking up for a Thanksgiving reflection. There is too much “prosperity” … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Living Gratefully, Mary Oliver, Prosperity Gratitude

To Get Attention

November 17, 2021 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

I once worked among fifty thousand students and twenty-five thousand faculty and staff on the campus of a major university. The church where I worked was the only non-university building on campus. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: aggressiveness, attention, Bullying

Who do you think is the most afraid?

November 10, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Who are the most fearful people in America? Can you guess? Let’s see if your instinct was correct. Just 3% of Americans own half the guns -- that little group owns 133 million guns. I know, that is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: guns, statistically afraid, super-owners

Small Voices

November 3, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

It always comes back to this, as Mary Oliver wrote. Nature, the power of its voice. It was the grass that caught my eye, as does a twinkle of light in the dark. In the state park, just past the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, nature, seasons

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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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