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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Life At Sea

Sea Saga, Part VI — Cruising with Kids, Dream or Nightmare?

June 30, 2013

The following is an article published in Latitude 38 many years ago. I’m reprinting it here as part of our Sea …

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La Gitana, Our Larger Self – Sea Saga, Part V

March 30, 2013

We named her “La Gitana,” Spanish for the gypsy, partly in tribute to our family’s Spanish heritage, partly because sea gypsies …

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Wheeling Away on the Isle of Pines

March 24, 2013

Certain poems I return again and again to tap into a state of mind that I was experiencing while writing …

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

January 27, 2013

Recently I posted a tribute to my daughter on her wedding day, and as I wrote it, I wondered about …

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Sea, Sky, Earth, Fire–My Daughter on Her Wedding Day

January 20, 2013

She was married beneath a cliff on the edge of the sea standing barefoot on the rocky beach.  Barking seals …

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“A Scattering of Rocks” — Zen in the Garden of Eden

December 4, 2012

Sometimes there’s no other way to capture a moment–a way of seeing or being in the world–than through poetry. So …

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Sea Saga, Part IV – Ex-pats and Pirates in the Bay Islands of Honduras

October 23, 2012

“This is life in its most eloquent and elemental form—a life worth pursuing,” I wrote at the end of my …

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Bee Karma

September 9, 2012

Last year the oak trees behind our pool were alive with buzzing bees.  Always, at any time of day or …

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Sea Saga, Part III – First Stop in Paradise, the Virgin Islands

August 26, 2012

“This is where it all begins,” Dale whispers to me we take off, rising through layers of clouds thick as …

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Walking Among Flowers

August 20, 2012

Out of the dark blue sea rose a lush-green mountain ribboned with cascading waterfalls.This was what we saw after 29 …

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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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