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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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“Love is a Language Few Practice, But All Speak”

March 8, 2020

Unreast in Baton Rouge By Traci K. Smith            after the photo by Jonathan Bachman Our …

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La Gitana, My Larger Self

March 2, 2020

When I first started this blog eight years ago, I had planned on using it as a vehicle for writing …

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My Wild Child, My Son, “Rider on the Storm”

February 23, 2020

I wrote this tribute to my son seven years ago, shortly after the birth of my granddaughter. Recently I posted …

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Tapping into the Unconscious – The Art of Sohan Qadri

February 16, 2020

When I first encountered one of Sohan Qadri’s paintings, I was plunged like a pebble into a still pool, radiating ripples of …

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“I’m Praying for You, To Die”

February 10, 2020

I get this message about once a week from my granddaughter’s mother. It goes into great detail about the pain …

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To Crave & To Have: A Thing & Its Shadow

January 21, 2020

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break …

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Music for a Rainy Morning

January 10, 2020

Taking some time for myself this morning. A fire, a book, music streaming as a gentle rain falls beyond my …

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From the Tailwinds of 2019, Hope Lost & Its Glimmer

January 5, 2020

I ended a blog post at the tail end of 2018 with this wish list for 2019: A Look Ahead …

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Finding Our Place in the Family of Things

November 18, 2019

I often turn to the poetry of Mary Oliver when seeking solace, when trying to negotiate a path through the …

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The Mystical Mindscapes of Matthew Wong

November 3, 2019

I discovered a new favorite artist on the day he died–too young at 35, Matthew Wong. A tribute to Wong’s …

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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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