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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Pinch Me! Writers House Accepts My Novel

May 23, 2018

I’m so excited. Robin Rue, a senior agent at Writers House, one of the top 20 literary agencies in the …

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More Feeling Than Memory: Flowing Leaves, A Swirl of Fish

May 20, 2018

Lately I’ve been leaning toward the abstract in my painting, but it’s hard to resist that representational pull. Especially when …

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New Paintings – Tangled Limbs, Roots & Rocks

May 16, 2018

I haven’t been painting this year as much as last. But I wanted to share a few that will probably …

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Mothering the World, A Tall Order

May 13, 2018

My novel From the Far Ends of the Earth is about relationships between mothers and children and all the ways …

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Right, at Last, and Wide Open

May 7, 2018

I’m letting my hair grow out. Like a girl again. It’s past my shoulders already, still mostly brown with a …

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Music Like Waves, Rising, Dispersing

April 30, 2018

I came across this poem on one of my favorite blogs O at the Edges. I love the image of …

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Fascinating Faces, Tao & the Arts

April 23, 2018

Some works of art speak to you on a level that is hard to define. You gaze and are drawn …

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Immersed in One’s Art

April 20, 2018

There’s something immensely satisfying to see Helen Frankenthaler immersed in her art this way. I found this image on Facebook, …

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“Divine Bodies” at the Asian Art Museum

April 16, 2018

During my trip to San Francisco last weekend we visited the Asian Art Museum, which was featuring an exhibition of …

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A Slice of San Francisco

April 12, 2018

Last weekend I accompanied my friend Paula on a trip to San Francisco. We stayed in a lovely old building …

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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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