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Balance may be the enemy

March 2, 2017 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This article first appeared as a weekly column in The Finger Lakes … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: balance, resistance to change

Balance is a seductive enemy

March 2, 2017 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Homeostasis is, “the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium.” In other words, balance. We hear a lot about balance these days; it is the thing everyone seems to seek in hopes that it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: balance, force for change, resistance to change

Balance is a myth, featuring “Same old, same old” by Civil Wars

April 27, 2015 By Cam Miller 1 Comment

Don’t want to fight, don’t want to struggle, don’t want to go through strife? Time to call hospice and hook up the morphine drip. Equilibrium is the casket in which we lie down, fall asleep, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Song Therapy Tagged With: balance, Equilibrium, The Myth of Balance

A Wednesday Rant: A text out of the blue

April 1, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

“The wound is the place where light enters you.” Those are the words a friend texted me out of the blue. The words are from Rumi (and a hundred other Wise Ones speaking in scores of languages … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: balance, Depression, misery, Recovery, weariness

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NOMINATED FOR A PUSHCART PRIZE 2020 Unsolicited Press (Portland, OR) chose "Cairn" among its many fine publications this year, as a nominee for one of the most respected literary awards in the … ...Read more

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Books, Poems, Sermons, and Columns for navigating the globalization of spirituality, and author visits and lectures available for building up the sacred community. Read more...


Each of these posts appeared first in The Finger Lakes Times (NY) as an entry in the weekly series, “Denim Spirit.”

 

Sermons, and preaching as an art, are not for dispensing content or proclaiming doctrines and dogma. Like poetry, prose, and music, they are for provoking and inspiring thought, memory, and imagination within those receiving them. Please allow your thoughts to wander as they will in response to what you hear, rather than following along word for word.

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