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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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A Symphony in Blue and Gold

February 17, 2019

I know I’ve written about this before, my love affair with the colors blue and gold, how they play so …

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Wrapped Around Schrodinger’s Cat

February 11, 2019

That’s where I’ve been these last ten days or so, wrapped around Schrödinger’s cat in that state of unknowing. My …

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Endings & Beginnings, A Writer’s Life

January 30, 2019

Well, I just finished rewriting the ending of my novel as requested by a publisher. We will see what they …

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Mary Oliver, Washed in Light

January 20, 2019

One of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, died last week. I do not have the words to tell you how …

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“Endless Love” – A 6th Year Celebration

January 12, 2019

I created this collage to celebrate my daughter and her husband’s 6th wedding anniversary, today. They were married January 12 …

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Three to Share: Beauty, Art, Place

January 7, 2019

I love discovering new blogs that inspire me and want to share three, among many, that I discovered this past …

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2018 – A Look Back, a Look Forward

December 31, 2018

The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess …

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O Holy Night, Images Sacred & Sublime

December 24, 2018

Star_birth_in_Messier_83_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope) I’ve gathered some images, sacred and sublime, to scroll through as you listen to “O Holy Night“, one of my …

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10,000 Thank-You’s! A Blogging Milepost

December 16, 2018

I have so many things to be grateful for, not least among them the ten-thousand people who, for whatever reason, …

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“The Secret of Happiness” – A Coda to My Last Post

December 10, 2018

After my last post on “happy endings” for our novels or ourselves, I’ve been thinking a lot about what exactly …

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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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