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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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A Happy Ending for My Novel, at Long Last!

December 8, 2024

Some of you may remember me writing about my novel From the Far ends of the Earth years ago, how …

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The Reason We Are Here on Earth, To Love

October 6, 2024

I came across these two quotes recently and had to share them with you. Each from very different authors, but …

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A Sense of Wonder & Mystery

August 26, 2024

Quote of the Week “Art has the power to make any spot on earth the living center of the universe; …

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Parenting Advice from The Prophet

May 5, 2024

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you …

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Summering Upstream with Mary Oliver

August 8, 2023

Slowly this summer I’ve been reading and savoring Mary Oliver’s book of essays Upstream while sitting on my patio sipping …

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In Some Poetic Sense, Flowers Invented Love

May 28, 2023

Flowers are on my mind, after the super-bloom outing last month, after reading The Language of Flowers for book club, …

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Happy Earth Day! May She Live Forever.

April 22, 2023

The spark for the first Earth Day was the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. A marine biologist and …

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Little Red, Lust & Longing in Songs & Stories

March 23, 2023

My last post about the “Slant-wise & Slippery” retelling of Little Red Riding Hood reminded me of a fun and …

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Listen to Your Life, the Holy, Hidden Heart of It

August 22, 2022

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and the pain of …

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Burning Bushes Everywhere, The Art of Makoto Fujimura

January 30, 2022

“There are burning bushes everywhere, burning yet not consumed, and our lives can be just as miraculous. Our Making can …

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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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