“Truth and Love Wins”
This has become my mantra in recent months: ‘Truth and Love wins.” It’s what gets me through the day when …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
Artists & Writers in Their Studios
I’ve been collecting images of artist studios and writing spaces as inspiration for creating my own art/writing workspace. Some of …
Hauntings, Ghosts, & Demons I Have Known
As Halloween draws near, I like to repost a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …
Three Florals & Two Landscapes
As summer was turning to fall most of my painting was focused on florals and learning to create with acrylics. …
Almost Blue, Jazz & Art
A perfect pairing for a Wednesday morning. Mellow jazz and my favorite color.
13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After
My mother died seven years ago this month, which is also the month I was born. I wrote a short …
Touching & Being Touched, Why We Blog
“The function of language is not to inform but to evoke . . . responses.” So writes Jacques Lacan, …
Perfect Pairings, Evans’s “Peace Piece” & Sapiro’s Skies
Bill Evans’s “Peace Piece” is “an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” LP in …
Playing Piano, a Full-Body Workout for the Brain
As I’ve begun learning to replay the piano, I’ve been amazed to realize what a complicated endeavor it is. It …
Making Room for all My Loves – Music, Art, Writing
A year and a half ago I blogged about Learning to Play (Again) and wrote this I played piano as …
