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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Art

Love’s Duplicity

April 21, 2013

When I first fell in love, it was a hot thing—urgent, possessive, almost feverish at times. I truly saw love …

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The Geometry, and Geography, of Love

April 17, 2013

I wrote these poems while still quite young, and very much in love, and loving the way our bodies “meet and …

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Wabi Sabi Writing

February 23, 2013

One of the things I love most about reading is discovering in another’s words something about myself that I had …

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Popcorn, Anyone? My Top 100 Movies Challenge

January 31, 2013

Fellow blogger Nathan Bransford recently came up with a list of his favorite 100 movies, and challenged readers to do likewise.  …

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

December 22, 2012

I’ve gathered some images, sacred and sublime, to scroll through as you listen to Charlotte Church sing “O Holy Night“, …

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Endless Emerging Forms – Photos of Fog and Mist

December 12, 2012

I’ve long been drawn to photos of fog and mist.  Part of it is the feel for the ephemeral and …

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Birthing and Rebirthing

October 9, 2012

My granddaughter was born a few days ago and my heart fell apart. There’s something so  breathtakingly tender, and heartbreakingly sweet, …

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Sunday Morning: All is a miracle…

October 7, 2012

Both the photo and the quotation are too beautiful not to share on this beautiful Sunday morning, with my brand new …

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The Arts in Healing

October 3, 2012

This summer my brother took me on an art tour of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and I captured a …

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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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