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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Culture

Truth and Love Wins, and I Can Breathe Again!

November 8, 2020

I feel like I’ve been ship-wrecked at sea for the past four years and finally have reached the shore. I …

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Voting for the Soul of America

November 3, 2020

Today’s the day. If you haven’t voted yet, please do!   Vote for Love over hate, Truth over lies, Unity …

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Sacred Music from Around the World

October 12, 2020

Long ago my daughter gifted me with a CD of sacred music from around the world. It became a favorite …

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Grieving for America, and Getting Past It

September 27, 2020

I found this quote by Mary Oliver in a recent blog post and it struck a chord. Ah, world, what …

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Wildfires Everywhere, Literally and Politically

August 22, 2020

That unusual thunderstorm I wrote about last week brought more than 1200 lightening strikes that forked across California causing 560 …

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Still Waiting to Land . . . .

August 16, 2020

Last summer brought an abundance of roses, so many I did not have enough vases to hold them all. And …

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Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light

July 27, 2020

Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …

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Brushes with Blackness – Feminist or Womanist?

July 12, 2020

Third in series in how Black lives and Black culture colored my Whiteness. I came of age during the Second …

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Brushes with Blackness: Best Friends and Bullies

June 21, 2020

As a child I was completely color blind. I know today people would say that was unlikely. Or even problematic. …

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Brushes with Blackness, 1

June 12, 2020

All of us who are white in America were born into a country steeped in racism. Even for those of …

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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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