About Daniel J. Miller

Dan Miller is the founder of thesacredbraid.com

Celebrate Responsibly: Longing for the Light

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in a land of deep darkness--- on them light has shined. ~ Isaiah 9: 2b, NRSV Wendell Berry writes, “To know the dark with a light is to know the light. / To know the Read more [...]

Celebrate Responsibly: Go Dark

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see." ~ Theodore Roethke The people who walked in darkness . . . ~ Isaiah 9:2b Perhaps due to one too many eggnogs last night, today the earth tilts (not me) giving us the shortest day and the longest night of the Read more [...]

Celebrate Responsibly II

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

continued-- The origin of the words response, responsible, and responsibility come from the Latin word respondere meaning “to promise in return.” Especially for people of faith who view themselves as the beloved of God, a response is more than a Read more [...]

Celebrate Responsibly 1

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

A voice cries out: In the desert prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God! Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill shall be made low; The rugged land shall be made a plain, the rough country, Read more [...]

Black Friday and Advent Waiting

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

As you know, in the part of the world we shop (I mean live) in, today has come to be known as Black Friday (Interesting isn’t it that today is identified as Black Friday and the second day of Triduum is called Good Friday, but I digress). Unlike September Read more [...]

Thanksgiving Eve

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

"Thanking is a true understanding of who we really are." ~ Julian of Norwich "It seems to me in the light of the Divine Goodness . . . that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins . . . . For it is a forgetting of the graces, benefits, and blessings Read more [...]

Poetry and Faith as Participative Acts

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Lest those of us who are Catholic forget, the single greatest liturgical change that was set in motion at the Second Vatican Council, was not that the language of the Mass changed from Latin to the vernacular of the people gathered, nor that Monsignor Read more [...]

Tumbling for Words or If This is a Birthday Party for the Mouth, Then What of My Life?

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

“The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone. What the words stood for, symbolized, or meant, was of very secondary importance; what mattered was the Read more [...]

Of Marcia, Sunlight, and the Duty of Pleasure

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

One of the reasons that I have drawn our attention thus far to the sheer enjoyment that comes from the playfulness, refreshment, or voltage of language is because in addition to the ability to break us open poetry has the capacity to retrieve for us the Read more [...]

Word Become Flesh Become Word Become Flesh

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Daniel J. Miller

Follow up comments from yesterday's H&H gathering: “The sound of the words is the first primitive pleasure in poetry.” Edward Hirsch “In poetry you must love the words, the ideas and images and rhythms with all your capacity to love Read more [...]

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