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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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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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Music to Comfort & Inspire

May 17, 2020

Friends on Facebook shared these two music videos with me recently. I loved them so much I had to share …

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Joy and Grief and Everything in Between

April 27, 2020

I don’t know if it has anything to do with Covid-19, all these mixed emotions that swell and rage and …

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“Love is a Language Few Practice, But All Speak”

March 8, 2020

Unreast in Baton Rouge By Traci K. Smith            after the photo by Jonathan Bachman Our …

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Chaos Can Take a Hike

September 1, 2019

I wrote the following post For Love of Chaos in August three years ago, when I had my little three …

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The Roman Forum, An Ancient Relic Then & Now

July 28, 2019

The Roman Forum lies right behind the Colosseum, that I wrote about last week. It is the great plaza where …

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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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