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DENIM SPIRIT: When the world is gray

10.12.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: The shadow knows

03.12.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: Gratitude, it’s complicated

27.11.2025 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: Just when you think you know what this is about

20.11.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: Stinky gratitude

14.11.2025 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: You’ve been invaded!

05.11.2025 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: Preserving community

29.10.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: Chumbling on twigs

22.10.2025 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: The hoax before our eyes

15.10.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: One enchanted evening

08.10.2025 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: Sweet and sour

17.09.2025 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: Creepy in many ways

10.09.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: A breakfast of facts and beliefs

03.09.2025 2

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DENIM SPIRIT: Give grief its due

27.08.2025 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: Six degrees maybe

20.08.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: You can’t take it back

13.08.2025 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: Begin with a mystery

06.08.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: Whether the Straw Man is he, she, or they

30.07.2025 30

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DENIM SPIRIT: The ordinary miraculous

23.07.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: Varieties of silliness

16.07.2025 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: When facing ‘everything’

09.07.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: On the porch, listening to bird blues

02.07.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: Not a rant

25.06.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: Refreshing set of new eyes

18.06.2025 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: Digging beneath what we were taught

11.06.2025 4

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Commentary: Though aimed at big business, antitrust bill would hurt Main Street

Small businesses in Cold Spring, Putnam County. In a business climate already gripped by uncertainty comes legislation that promises to dismantle...

10.06.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: A three-legged pig

04.06.2025 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: Just an old story

28.05.2025 2

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DENIM SPIRIT: Dinosaur chickens, lions, and three-legged dogs – Oh my!

21.05.2025 30

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DENIM SPIRIT: The hope we hope for

14.05.2025 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: Apropos of something

08.05.2025 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: C’est moi!

30.04.2025 6

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DENIM SPIRIT: It happened here

24.04.2025 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: The color of royalty & penitence

17.04.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: Here we go again

09.04.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: Sniffing along the railroad tracks

03.04.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: Thanksgiving on the vernal equinox

Last night we had Thanksgiving dinner with some neighbors. It was on the vernal equinox. A spring rain fell that afternoon and released the scents...

26.03.2025 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: A tough little bird

19.03.2025 30

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DENIM SPIRIT: Snakes and February

20.02.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: Where everybody knows you name

14.01.2025 5

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DENIM SPIRIT: Where everybody knows you name

This was my last Christmas as an active parish priest. I am retiring within a few months after 45 years of ordained ministry, all of which were...

08.01.2025 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: Neil Young and the earthquake

I was a sophomore at a very small college, sitting in my dorm room on the third floor of a 19th-century building, when my world began to shake....

13.11.2024 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: The complexity of crows

I had to submit this column before what many think was the most consequential presidential election since 1860, so I am writing this in a black box...

06.11.2024 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: Seeing through the darkness

It was dark this morning when Rabia and I left the house. We walked our usual path toward the lake tunnel, a concrete barrel vault under Routes...

30.10.2024 4

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DENIM SPIRIT: Writing among the tall pines

I am cold. I can’t type with gloves on, so I have them laying flat underneath my palms on the laptop because its metal surface feels freezing. Of...

16.10.2024 20

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DENIM SPIRIT: The voices in our heads

Well, I struck pay dirt with last week’s column and heard from a number of you in support of unadulterated gratitude for the abundance of our...

10.10.2024 10

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DENIM SPIRIT: Wake up and smell the roses

It is raining again. Gray and overcast. That weeks-long stretch of blue sky and dandelion sun seems farther away than it should. But, then again,...

07.10.2024 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: Wake up and smell the roses

It is raining again. Gray and overcast. That weeks-long stretch of blue sky and dandelion sun seems farther away than it should. But, then again,...

02.10.2024 2

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DENIM SPIRIT: The heartbreak of green slime, HABs

“Heartbreaking” is a phrase I don’t often use. It’s one of those words I hold like that special bottle or can of something in the back of your...

25.09.2024 2

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DENIM SPIRIT: Remembering as imaging

The Erie Canal was the first infrastructure project in the United States. Built in spite of mockery from Thomas Jefferson, it ran 360 miles and...

19.09.2024 40

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