“Catching Every Falling Cup” – A Primal Urge
This phrase from my poem Brimless Being is becoming a mantra I turn to often these days. It’s about the …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
The Luminous Mindscapes of Shara Hughes
It’s not surprising I’m drawn to these so-called landscapes by Shara Hughes. They remind me of Matthew Wong’s mysterious mindscapes …
Listen to Your Life, the Holy, Hidden Heart of It
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and the pain of …
Slivers of Reality in a More-Than-Human World
We like to think that we humans, with our five marvelous senses, are in full receipt of what this world …
Other-Worldly Encounters with a Feral Cat
She sauntered into our yard about a month ago, this young orange tabby with a white bib. Her gaze passed …
Capturing the Spirit of Our Kindred Cousins
Sculptor Nichola Theakston works in bronze and ceramics to capture the spirit of creatures found in her native Wales and …
Beauty the Brave, the Exemplary, Bursting Open
What is it about the fragile, fleeting, and flagrant beauty of flowers that can so break a heart? I wrote …
A Deep-Dive Through Time and Space
By now you’ve probably seen the stunning new images from the Webb Space Telescope, which takes us 13 billion years …
Celebrating Ten Years of Blogging
When I created this blog ten years ago I named it “Living on the Edge of the Wild.” I saw …
Time Away, and Back Again. Kinda.
I took two months away from blogging, most of May and all of June. Some of that time was finishing …
