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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Family

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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“Perfect Love” – All We Need for What Ails Us

September 27, 2018

The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings is Love. Love with a capital L, meaning that …

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Romancing Europe – Coming Soon!

June 4, 2018

The last time I was in Europe we were sailing on La Gitana. We came up the Red Sea, through …

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Mothering the World, A Tall Order

May 13, 2018

My novel From the Far Ends of the Earth is about relationships between mothers and children and all the ways …

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Right, at Last, and Wide Open

May 7, 2018

I’m letting my hair grow out. Like a girl again. It’s past my shoulders already, still mostly brown with a …

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A Walk on the Wild Side – For People Who Love Addicts

February 19, 2018

A few years ago I started an anonymous blog with the above title to talk about addiction. About trying to …

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“Truth & Love Wins” Redux

December 18, 2017

I am happy to report that at least in one very narrow slice of life, truth and love has indeed …

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Hauntings, Ghosts, & Demons I Have Known

October 27, 2017

As Halloween draws near, I like to repost a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …

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13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After

October 10, 2017

My mother died seven years ago this month, which is also the month I was born. I wrote a short …

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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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