To All Those Missing Their Mothers on Mother’s Day
Farewell Letter to My Son She wrote me a letterafter her deathand I remembera kind of happy lightfalling on the …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
Behind All Art is an Element of Desire—Adrienne Rich
Behind all art is an element of desire.Love of life, of existence, love ofanother human being, love ofhuman beings is …
Art More Real than “Me”
When poet Jorie Graham was three-years-old, she swirled her fingers through her mother’s still-wet oil painting. Her horrified mother picked …
Happy Earth Day! May She Live Forever.
The spark for the first Earth Day was the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. A marine biologist and …
Yellow & Blue & Orange, O My! Super-Bloom Wildflowers
On Good Friday, my husband and I went searching for spring wildflowers in the hills of California. We do it …
Easter Gladness, Nobel Poet Milosz on How the World Ends & Begins Again
A Song on the End of the WorldBy Czeslaw Milosz On the day the world endsA bee circles a clover,A …
Growing Orbits of Love — From the Sensual to the Sacred in Prose & Poetry
He passed his fingertips over her skin almost without touching her, and experienced for the first time the miracle of …
Little Red, Lust & Longing in Songs & Stories
My last post about the “Slant-wise & Slippery” retelling of Little Red Riding Hood reminded me of a fun and …
Red & The Wolf, Slant-Wise and Slippery
I’ve always loved fairy tales, especially the darker, deeper, originals where good did not always overcome evil. As a young …
So Much Happiness – Poem and Painting
So Much Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye For Michael It is difficult to know what to do with so much …
