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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Family

Primary Wonder, Age Three

April 13, 2016

Primary Wonder, Age Three Walking with our granddaughter Whispering and waving Our wings Sniffing for bats. What do you smell …

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Learning What’s Needed to Be Healed

November 19, 2015

  I found this quotation at Zen Flash, and realized it’s just what I needed to hear. Nothing ever really …

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Living on the Edge of the Ghostly and Unexplained

October 28, 2015

There’s so much in this world that surrounds us that we can hardly fathom, let alone explain. We keep bumping …

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The Face of Bliss, While Swimming

September 3, 2015

Have you ever seen a more contented face? What is it about children and water that mixes together with such …

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Major Life Changes – Writing with Toddlers (or not)

June 27, 2015

Funny how life plays these little tricks on you. When my own children were toddlers, I put my writing aspirations …

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Mothers & Other Lovers, Compelling Art

June 14, 2015

What makes compelling art? Why do I find this image of mother and child, and the ones below, so powerful and …

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To Mother the World

May 10, 2015

The novel I am working on is about relationships between mothers and children and all the ways that is expressed, …

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Turning Anger into Action, in Ferguson and Elsewhere

November 25, 2014

I am so angry at the outcome in Ferguson, that there was no indictment to allow a court of law …

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Growing Up in a Haunted House

October 28, 2014

Last October I posted a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I experienced growing up, …

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Making Music Wherever We Go – The Rhymes and Rhythms that Move Us

August 3, 2014

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross To see a fine lady upon a fine horse. Rings on her fingers …

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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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