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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Sexy, Smart, Sweet, & Soulful

April 12, 2015

Finally! I found what I was looking for when I wrote the post Speaking of Erotica, a “steamy love story …

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Primary Wonder & A Bell Awakened – Two By Levertov

March 29, 2015

The whole purpose of life, of this extraordinary experience in being, is to be awake to the wonder and mystery …

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A Walk to Point San Simeon

March 19, 2015

Recently my husband and I and friends took our dogs walking out to Point San Simeon, just below Hearst Castle …

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Whitman – Where the Sensual & Soulful Merge

March 13, 2015

Walt Whitman is indeed that poet who sings the body electric, who shows how the sensual and the soulful mirror …

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Speaking of Erotica . . .

February 26, 2015

. . . have you read anything hot lately? Perhaps it was the convergence of Valentine’s Day and the release …

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Happy Valentines Day – Celebrating Lasting Love

February 14, 2015

I’m reprinting a post I wrote two years ago, the first to be Freshly Pressed. Hope you enjoy it. They …

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Pinterest, My New Guilty Pleasure

February 8, 2015

I’ve been on a Pinterest kick lately that’s taken me into the wee hours of the morning, searching for images …

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Walking in a Green-Winter Wonderland

February 1, 2015

Here on the central coast of California, we look forward to a green, rather than white, Christmas. While we love …

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Dawkins and the Wonder of It All

January 26, 2015

It is true that the unknown is the largest need of the intellect, though for it no one thinks to …

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Good Prose and Good Science — Quibbling with the Masters

January 18, 2015

At first Steven Pinker was my new hero. Within the first few pages of reading his widely acclaimed “The Sense …

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  • “Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full,” A Homecoming
  • This Sea Within, A Poem & Excerpt From My Novel
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  • The Weight of Snow and Regret & Bo Hopkins’ Blues

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  • Poetry in the Time of Corona
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  • The Art of Living, a Reminder
  • O Holy Night, What Stars Give Birth To
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Purpose of Blog

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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