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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Art

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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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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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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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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Song from a Dream – “My Queen’s Soul Lies Naked”

July 20, 2014

My dreams have always been enticingly rich and evocative. Often it’s as if I’m watching an elaborate film in gorgeous …

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“I See You But Do You See Me?” – Artist Marc Clamage, Bearing Witness

June 11, 2014

Since my last post, I discovered another artist who refuses to turn away. He bears witness one face at a time by …

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Bearing Witness – Refusing to Turn Away

June 5, 2014

I found this painting of a beggar at the blog site of an artist that I admire. She found it …

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Layers of Reality in Bergman’s “Franny and Alexander,” and in Us

April 1, 2014

In several of his films, Ingmar Bergman plays with the notion of multiple layers of reality.  This can be seen …

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Self Portrait – “Melt into that Fierce Heat of Living”

March 22, 2014

Self Portrait by David Whyte It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to …

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Art and the Mystery in the Midst of Things

March 9, 2014

Art points to something beyond itself, toward “something more,” something that we sense in things and reveal through our pen …

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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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