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 …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
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 …
In the Mood for Love, in Music and Art
Some favorite pairings in music and art to start your weekend off. I fell in love with this hauntingly sad-sweet …
“Slow Swirl at the Edge of Time”
This naming of this painting did not come “like a conversation between two lovers,” as the name of my last …
