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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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On Photography – Researching My Sequel

March 16, 2019

I’m working on a sequel to my novel From the Far Ends of the Earth, mostly research and note-taking at …

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Italy’s Amalfi Coast, Beckoningly Unreal

March 10, 2019

John Steinbeck once wrote that the Amalfi coast “isn’t quite real when you are there and becomes beckoningly real after …

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Poem & Paintings, A Song

March 4, 2019

The sun does not shine on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, …

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Time-Traveling Through the Streets of Pompeii

February 24, 2019

One of my favorite stops during my travels last summer was visiting the ancient ruins of Pompeii, a sprawling city buried …

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A Symphony in Blue and Gold

February 17, 2019

I know I’ve written about this before, my love affair with the colors blue and gold, how they play so …

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Wrapped Around Schrodinger’s Cat

February 11, 2019

That’s where I’ve been these last ten days or so, wrapped around Schrödinger’s cat in that state of unknowing. My …

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Endings & Beginnings, A Writer’s Life

January 30, 2019

Well, I just finished rewriting the ending of my novel as requested by a publisher. We will see what they …

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Mary Oliver, Washed in Light

January 20, 2019

One of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, died last week. I do not have the words to tell you how …

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“Endless Love” – A 6th Year Celebration

January 12, 2019

I created this collage to celebrate my daughter and her husband’s 6th wedding anniversary, today. They were married January 12 …

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Three to Share: Beauty, Art, Place

January 7, 2019

I love discovering new blogs that inspire me and want to share three, among many, that I discovered this past …

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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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