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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Family

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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Home Schooling Again, & Who’s the Boss?

March 23, 2020

I home-schooled my two children for six years when we were sailing around the world on La Gitana. And now, …

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La Gitana, My Larger Self

March 2, 2020

When I first started this blog eight years ago, I had planned on using it as a vehicle for writing …

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My Wild Child, My Son, “Rider on the Storm”

February 23, 2020

I wrote this tribute to my son seven years ago, shortly after the birth of my granddaughter. Recently I posted …

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“I’m Praying for You, To Die”

February 10, 2020

I get this message about once a week from my granddaughter’s mother. It goes into great detail about the pain …

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From the Tailwinds of 2019, Hope Lost & Its Glimmer

January 5, 2020

I ended a blog post at the tail end of 2018 with this wish list for 2019: A Look Ahead …

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From Pete the Cat: It’s All Good

October 14, 2019

One of the joys of grandparenting is revisiting stories I loves to read my own children and sharing them with …

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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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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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