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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Family

Life’s Sweet Longing for Itself

October 3, 2019

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

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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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Resting in the Grace of the World

August 18, 2019

“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear …

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Secluded Pool, Secret Garden, & Summer Plans Gone Astray

July 7, 2019

I haven’t been painting as much this year, but I thought I’d share these two. Both were meant to be …

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Life through a Lens, What We Gain & Lose, Redux

March 28, 2019

How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …

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Wrapped Around Schrodinger’s Cat

February 11, 2019

That’s where I’ve been these last ten days or so, wrapped around Schrödinger’s cat in that state of unknowing. My …

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“Endless Love” – A 6th Year Celebration

January 12, 2019

I created this collage to celebrate my daughter and her husband’s 6th wedding anniversary, today. They were married January 12 …

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A Happy Ending for My Novel? For My Son?

December 2, 2018

One of the publishers we sent my novel to wants a rewrite of the ending. While their readers said they …

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Seeing the Self in What We Love

November 28, 2018

I’ve become mesmerized by the quote below I found on The Beauty We Love. These first four lines, especially, move …

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True Tales Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 27, 2018

Have you ever had any ghostly encounters? Each year around this time, I like to reblog a series of tales …

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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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