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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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O Holy Night – The Sacred and Sublime in Art & Images

December 17, 2014

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
I’ve gathered some images, sacred and sublime, to scroll through as you listen to Charlotte Church…

Sweet Whispery Sounds for a Wintry Afternoon – The Moon Song

December 11, 2014

I don’t know what it is I love about this song by Karen O, which debuted in Her, the acclaimed …

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Happiness Like Holiness

December 4, 2014

I’ve been ill–nothing serious–but lying in bed day after day, even surrounded by good books, tends toward melancholy. Reading Mary …

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Turning Anger into Action, in Ferguson and Elsewhere

November 25, 2014

I am so angry at the outcome in Ferguson, that there was no indictment to allow a court of law …

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The Light-Craving Stories of George Saunders

November 20, 2014

What is it that I love about the wildly weird, dark and dorky stories of George Saunders? Ever since reading …

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“The Mountain of My Love” – Poem by Hayden Carruth

November 11, 2014

In the graduation speech that went viral last year, George Saunders wrote: “Most people, as they age, become less selfish and more …

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Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 28, 2014

Last October I posted a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I experienced growing up, …

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Downward into Darkness on Extended Wings

October 19, 2014

Wallace Stevens’ poem “Sunday Morning” ends with these lines: We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old …

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Making Space

October 9, 2014

Originally posted on Writings from Wild Soul:
NASA photo My writing group started up again this week. A lovely circle of women who…

Getting Serious about Our Life’s Work

September 30, 2014

I read Steven Pressfield’s book “The War of Art” not long ago and followed up with its sequel “Turning Pro: Tap …

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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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