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The marriage of reason and imagination

September 9, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

  THE RANT Among the 18th century artist Goya’s famous collection of prints, "Los Caprichos,” number 43 (of 80) is entitled, “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” It seems to be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: imagination, Pure Reason, the dark side of reason

A Wednesday Rant: Digging deep

August 26, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Like so many things it is easy to go along and look past or forget the assumptions upon which we operate. Most of the time we remain unaware of the deep soil of assumptions in which our life-styles … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Assumptions, Hearing Voices, materialism, revelation

A Wednesday Rant: A whisper of what we have forgotten

August 19, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/70 “I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Earth, Earth spirituality, nature

A Wednesday Rant: The Madness of Summer

August 12, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

It is now mid-August and I still have a pile of mulch that has stubbornly refused to spread itself out. Every season has its own madness and for those living in a four-season reality the madness of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: "Lilies of the field", August, summer

A Wednesday Rant: Follow the Oak

August 5, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

The pin oak in my yard, the one I see through the window from where I write daily, is vibrantly verdant this morning. The suppleness of her leaves as they quiver in the breeze, along with the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: no urgency, Oak tree, summer

A Wednesday Rant: It’s My Story and I’m Sticking To It!

July 29, 2015 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

The Story of Our Lives Story shapes reality. On the surface we imagine that story is only, well, story. But story is power. The one with the best story wins. Story shapes reality but we go along … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: spirituality, telling our story

A Wednesday Rant: Confession

July 22, 2015 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

  A friend sent me a Mary Oliver poem I had never read before (thank you, Peter), and it made me ache. Truly, it was a craving in my bones. I loved it, as I do so many of her poems. It … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: identity, Preachers, writer's, writing

A Wednesday Rant: Spiritual practice has little to do with doctrine, rituals, stretching, or crystals

July 15, 2015 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

Spiritual practice has little to do with doctrine, rituals, stretching, or crystals “I like to find what’s not found at once, but lies within something of another nature…” From, “Pleasures” by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Denise Levertov, paradox, spiritual practice, spirituality

A Wednesday Rant: Charging the gap of mystery

July 8, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.” Full link to Annie Dillard quote: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Mystery, spirituality, wisdom

This Says It All For Today

July 4, 2015 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WAWAnJOnRI For those who live in the United States, may you have a blessed and extended holiday weekend. For those of you who do not live here, I beg your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT, Sermons, Song Therapy Tagged With: SPECIAL MESSAGE

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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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