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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Monthly Archives: June 2021

Writing Again, Loving It

June 27, 2021

I’m working again on that novel I wrote about in The White Hot Flow of Writing some time ago. I …

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Three by Langston Hughs on Juneteenth

June 19, 2021

The Negro Speaks of Rivers I’ve known rivers:I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of …

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In Defense of Joy

June 13, 2021

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must havethe stubbornness to accept our …

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“Back to the Garden” with Stardust and Irises

June 6, 2021

This painting is considered by many as Van Gogh’s finest floral, and one of the only two paintings he chose …

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After sailing around the world in a small boat for six years, I came to appreciate how tiny and insignificant we humans appear in our natural and untamed surroundings, living always on the edge of the wild, into which we are embedded even while being that thing which sets us apart. Now living again on the edge of the wild in a home that borders a nature preserve, I am re-exploring what it means to be human in a more than human world.

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