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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Love

Celebrating Lasting Love

April 28, 2013

They say opposites attract. That was true when my husband and I first met. I found in him everything I …

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Love Lost, and Renewed

April 25, 2013

Not long after I decided to leave my husband I met someone new. I was working part-time at a book …

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Love’s Duplicity

April 21, 2013

When I first fell in love, it was a hot thing—urgent, possessive, almost feverish at times. I truly saw love …

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The Geometry, and Geography, of Love

April 17, 2013

I wrote these poems while still quite young, and very much in love, and loving the way our bodies “meet and …

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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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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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