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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Monthly Archives: December 2025

My Book Buffet Newsletter, December 2025

December 29, 2025

Dear Friends and Followers, Welcome to my December Book Buffet, a monthly newsletter featuring updates on my publishing adventure, including my novels When …

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O Holy Night, Star of Wonder & Delight

December 21, 2025

“O star of wonder, star of light,star with royal beauty bright,westward leading, still proceeding,guide us to thy perfect light.” –From …

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When Every Cell Becomes a Miracle – Dancing on Ecstatic Toes

December 14, 2025

I’ve always loved Walt Whitman’s way of turning the mundane into a miracle, or seeing what’s marvelous in the everyday. …

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Meeting Death Full of Curiosity: Three Poems

December 7, 2025

Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …

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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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