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DENIM SPIRIT: Where everybody knows you name

14.01.2025 4

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Cameron Miller

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 3

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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 1

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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 10

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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 2

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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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DENIM SPIRIT: A split screen on the morning show

It began with a butterscotch sun. A carpet of white diamonds spreading across the water from east to west still retained a slight strand of pink...

11.09.2024 2

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DENIM SPIRIT: Dogs and cats, a kind of a parable

The dog is sick. Probably because she ate deer poop or something else gross that Labrador Retrievers vacuum up with their forever roving muzzles...

04.09.2024 2

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DENIM SPIRIT: Your neighbor’s house is on fire!

True story. When I was a newly minted Episcopal priest, not yet 30 and serving as a solo pastor of a congregation, I did as many things wrong as...

28.08.2024 3

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DENIM SPIRIT: Ordinary sacred

“I love you,” my daughter said to her husband in the kitchen as she left for work one morning. It sounded as sincere as it was casual, and I...

21.08.2024 2

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DENIM SPIRIT: Try asking

Something that happened as a result of the very hot and humid weather we had a week or so ago was that it pushed many of the lakefront gang into...

14.08.2024 2

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DENIM SPIRIT: This is not about politics, so keep reading

I was on the National Organizing Call for the Harris campaign last week after her Atlanta rally. While I have already made up my mind who I will...

07.08.2024 2

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