“To Be Replaced by Love” – George Saunders’ Wish for Graduates
With graduation season upon us, I thought I’d re-share the most inspiring graduation speech I ever read. One by the …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
Pinch Me! Writers House Accepts My Novel
I’m so excited. Robin Rue, a senior agent at Writers House, one of the top 20 literary agencies in the …
More Feeling Than Memory: Flowing Leaves, A Swirl of Fish
Lately I’ve been leaning toward the abstract in my painting, but it’s hard to resist that representational pull. Especially when …
New Paintings – Tangled Limbs, Roots & Rocks
I haven’t been painting this year as much as last. But I wanted to share a few that will probably …
Mothering the World, A Tall Order
My novel From the Far Ends of the Earth is about relationships between mothers and children and all the ways …
Right, at Last, and Wide Open
I’m letting my hair grow out. Like a girl again. It’s past my shoulders already, still mostly brown with a …
Music Like Waves, Rising, Dispersing
I came across this poem on one of my favorite blogs O at the Edges. I love the image of …
Fascinating Faces, Tao & the Arts
Some works of art speak to you on a level that is hard to define. You gaze and are drawn …
Immersed in One’s Art
There’s something immensely satisfying to see Helen Frankenthaler immersed in her art this way. I found this image on Facebook, …
“Divine Bodies” at the Asian Art Museum
During my trip to San Francisco last weekend we visited the Asian Art Museum, which was featuring an exhibition of …
