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The Spirituality of Beech

November 13, 2019 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

Well, stick season is upon us. Sure, there is still a passel of trees along city streets with limp yellow or curled brown leaves hanging on – overachievers that will soon succumb. Oaks may be the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Beech trees, spirituality, Stick Season

Ode to Karl

October 7, 2016 By Cam Miller 4 Comments

He was my therapist for five years, off and on but only because I was chickenshit. I don’t know how old he was, but I’m guessing he had me by at least fifteen years – just enough to keep me almost … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: dreams, rant, spirituality

Listening to the world all around rather than only what has to do with us

August 25, 2016 By Cam Miller 7 Comments

  On a recent morning, cup of coffee in hand, sitting on my bench in the meadow behind my house, dog chewing her most recent stick acquisition, I counted the bird songs. I was remembering how … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: birdsong, Listening, spirituality

DENIM SPIRIT: Just like a cat…or a sea slug

May 11, 2016 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

Link to Finger Lake Times where this column appears: http://www.fltimes.com/opinion/denim-spirit-just-like-a-cat-or-a-sea-slug/article_1767a572-1783-11e6-8848-2bb2662b400a.html A fluff of down … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Awe, Sacred, spirituality

Joy verses Happiness; Faith verses Belief: A Re-set for Religion

March 31, 2016 By Cam Miller 5 Comments

The difference between joy and happiness is that joy has no words. It is indescribable. Happiness can be colored in between the lines while joy leaks out everywhere and onto everything. Happiness … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: faith vs belief, Joy vs Happiness, spirituality

The Myth of Sinfulness

February 12, 2016 By Cam Miller 2 Comments

The myth of sinfulness is a problem. The notion that there is such a thing as “original sin” is rooted in the idea that there was a time when human beings were different than we are now AND that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, Myth, Sin, spirituality

One foot in the past, one in the present, imagining a future

January 19, 2016 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

After Martin Luther King Day I find myself humming or whistling “Lift Every Voice” for a week, the same as with any of a dozen carols from Christmas Eve until New Year’s. This year was a particularly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: rant, spirituality, theology

What Else We May See In The Mirror

October 6, 2015 By Cam Miller Leave a Comment

  Let’s muse about one of the most persistent criticisms of religion: that religious beliefs are nothing more than a projection of human values and needs onto something we call God. We hear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exported, Spiritual Writing/Practice Tagged With: Critics of religion, Projection, spirituality

Awakening the Voices of the Wounded Within

October 2, 2015 By Cam Miller 6 Comments

“We do not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” (Carl Jung) “You do not have to be good… you only have to let the soft animal of your body love … [Read more...]

Filed Under: DENIM SPIRIT Tagged With: Listening, spirituality, wisdom, woundedness

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

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