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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

At the risk of repeating myself…

June 30, 2021 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

In poetry and prose, as in preaching, I have insisted that if the sacred is present in our midst, then it has to be as perceptible in the forest of concrete and the smudged ordinary of urban life as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: city living, Listening, nature

Have You Ever?

April 17, 2018 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This post began as a sermon before becoming a "Denim Spirit" column in The Finger Lakes Times (NY) Inspired by the Mary Oliver poem, “Whispers” Have you ever sat by yourself on the beach at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Holiness, nature, Whispers of the holy

Wanted: Leadership That Inspires

October 13, 2017 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

  This post first appeared in the "Denim Spirit" series in The Finger Lakes Times … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: humanity, Leadership, nature

Listening to Time

March 10, 2017 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

This first appeared as a weekly column in The Finger Lakes Times: http://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-tuning-in-listening-to-time/article_1405159a-0404-11e7-b6ca-77e1b60d4498.html Can you feel … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Listening, nature, Spring

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

Gratitude: It’s not magic but it is medicinal

September 12, 2012 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

Have you ever been without gratitude? It is not a pleasant thought or memory, to be sure, but if you have known such a time, conjure it back and remember what that was like. Perhaps it was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: dull ache, nature, overcast days, travel

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