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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Love

Summer Sea Saga, A Dream Comes True

June 30, 2024

With summer blooming all around me and needing time to enjoy it, I thought I’d repost here some summertime favorites. …

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Birthing & Rebirthing, A Constant Becoming

May 12, 2024

When my granddaughter was born my heart fell apart and I became a new thing. We’re astounded again and again …

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Evolution Entwined with Love

March 18, 2024

I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …

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A Kind of Love: How the Cup Holds Tea

January 23, 2024

I’ve been thinking about this poem ever since I found it on The Vale of the Soul-Making. The way ordinary …

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Never Say “Never Again” Unless We Mean It

October 26, 2023

. . . because to do so would be meaningless. And perhaps it’s meaningless already. I wrote a post with …

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Bearing Witness, Refusing to Turn Away, Again

October 16, 2023

How many times must we do this? Does it ever stop? The earthquakes, floods, and fires. The wars. Ukraine last …

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The Desire for a Higher Lovemaking

October 2, 2023

I was struck by the phrase “a desire for a higher lovemaking” when reading Goethe’s poem “The Holy Longing.” It …

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Dreaming Roses, Beauty Past Knowing

August 13, 2023

My roses are spent already this summer, and I miss them. Another summer not long ago I spend a day …

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Hot Hills in Summer Heat, A Poem

July 23, 2023

Hot Hills in Summer Heat I watch them every summer, the hot hills Crouched like a lion beside the road, …

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In Some Poetic Sense, Flowers Invented Love

May 28, 2023

Flowers are on my mind, after the super-bloom outing last month, after reading The Language of Flowers for book club, …

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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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