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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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The Joy of Aging

August 23, 2013

Oliver Sacks wrote a piece for the New York Times last month called “The Joy of Old Age (No Kidding!)”. It ended …

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Epitaph for a Tombstone – Exploring Infinity

August 14, 2013

I came across this recently, something I wrote years and years ago. So much has changed since then, but not …

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Epitaph for a Tombstone – Exploring Infinity

August 14, 2013

Due to technical difficulties I had to repost this.  Please click the link below to read the reposted version.  Thank you. https://deborahbrasket.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/epitaph-for-a-tombstone-exploring-infinity-4/

“Mostly Love, Now” and “The Cows at Night”

August 9, 2013

Since posting the speech by George Saunders I’ve been searching, without success for the poem he mentions by Hayden Carruth, …

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On Regret and Kindness – Amazing Graduation Speech by George Saunders

August 3, 2013

It’s not often you get major writers speaking of such mundane and seemingly trite things as “regrets” and “kindness” to …

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Living Life Through a Lens, What We Gain and Lose

July 27, 2013

How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …

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Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives

July 21, 2013

I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …

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Living on the Edge of the Wild

July 11, 2013

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
I created this blog to explore what it means to be living on the edge of…

Sailing with Kids into the Unknown, Continuation of Sea Saga, Part VI

July 3, 2013

This post is a continuation of the article I wrote about long-distance sailing with children that I wrote long ago …

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Sea Saga, Part VI — Cruising with Kids, Dream or Nightmare?

June 30, 2013

The following is an article published in Latitude 38 many years ago. I’m reprinting it here as part of our Sea …

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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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