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Learning from Experience, Denial, or Willful Resistance to Learning

October 21, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This is my pre-election column. By the time next Wednesday arrives the volume of campaign noise will be more deafening than it is now. Next week will be deep breathing and mindfulness … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Election 2020, Experience, Learning

Look Up

October 14, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

“I lift up my eyes to the hills from where is my help to come...” Psalm 121 For flatlanders the hills have always been holy places of mystery. There is a pantheon of famous peaks hosting a panoply … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: flatlander, mountians, neuro linguistic programming

Poked by Hope

October 7, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

In his column last week, Michael Fitzgerald went digging for silver linings in the dark clouds hanging over our heads these days. In her reflection on personal mortality, into which she invited the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Hope, Integrity, wishful thinking

Every Bottom is Different

September 30, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Every bottom is different. No, I am not referring to human anatomy. The bottom to which I am pointing is a mythical place where alcoholics and drug abusers meet their moment of recovery. Often it is a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: hitting bottom, Recovery, vote

A Harvest Metaphor

September 24, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

A friend shared with me an image that won’t stop fluttering in my thoughts. Sometimes that is not such a good thing, but in this case it is a pleasure. Picture if you will, an intensely blue autumn … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: death, Life, RBG

Some Moments Call for a Poem

September 16, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

The Rev. Al Kershaw (1919-2001) was a Jazz historian as well as an ordained minister. A man of letters, some of which are held in collection by Southern Mississippi State University, also brought … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: chickadee, poetry, winter

What I learned from Minnie Mouse

September 9, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

I knew a giant of a man who called himself Minnie Mouse. His hair was shoulder length and sprawled like straw, stiff and tangled. His beard too. Often he wore a tee shirt cut off just below the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: reality, schyzophrenia, Trumpworld

New Review of Cairn

September 5, 2020 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: "Cairn, review, spiritual not religious

Ugliness and Beauty

September 2, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Stop. Take a slow, deep breath. Fill your diaphragm first and then let it out slowly. Try it again, closing your eyes perhaps. Ah. There is a relentless car alarm blaring at us, emanating from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Beauty, Hope, ugliness

Read the Seasons

August 26, 2020 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

“Now Rabia, this is the time to write.” I say it with a mock sternness, unsure if she can discern humor. She looks back at me with what I judge to be pools of affection in her baby brown eyes, blond … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Change, reading the signs, Trump propaganda

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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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