• About / Contact
  • Blog
  • Novels
  • Sea Saga Memoir
  • Stories & Poetry
  • The Sea Within Trilogy
  • When Things Go Missing

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Love

My Lately, Political Turmoil, & Choosing Joy

February 13, 2025

I just got back from spending two weeks in Oceanside with my twelve-year-old granddaughter while her parents (my daughter and …

Continue reading →

Truth & Love Win Again! My Hope & Mantra

November 3, 2024

“Truth and Love wins” was my mantra before the 2020 presidential election. When I woke the next morning after Biden …

Continue reading →

The Reason We Are Here on Earth, To Love

October 6, 2024

I came across these two quotes recently and had to share them with you. Each from very different authors, but …

Continue reading →

On Herds, Husbands & Being in Love

September 29, 2024

Serendipity, it’s sometimes called. Those happy coincidences that lead to some unexpected pleasure or insight. Or synchronicity. Those meaningful encounters …

Continue reading →

The Primordial Pleasure of Swimming

July 22, 2024

Now that the weather has warmed and heated our pool, Dale and I go swimming every afternoon. It’s not just …

Continue reading →

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. …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

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 …

Continue reading →

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Join 11.5K other subscribers

Recent Posts

  • Self-Portraits by Mary Oliver and Me
  • The Iconic 60s: Writing Song Lyrics for This Sea Within
  • My Book Buffet, August 2026
  • “Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full,” A Homecoming
  • This Sea Within, A Poem & Excerpt From My Novel
  • On Mackerel & Metaphor: A Poet Unravels the Universe
  • The Weight of Snow and Regret & Bo Hopkins’ Blues
  • Poetry to Save a Planet in Peril

Protected by Copyscape Plagiarism Finder

Top Posts

  • Blogging and "The Accident of Touching"
  • Celebrating Lasting Love
  • The Weight of Snow and Regret & Bo Hopkins' Blues
  • On Herds, Husbands & Riffing on Writing
  • Joy Not Shared, Dies Young
  • Poetry in the Time of Corona
  • Artists & Writers in Their Studios
  • The Art of Living, a Reminder
  • O Holy Night, What Stars Give Birth To
  • Pinch Me! Writers House Accepts My Novel

Follow Me on Facebook

Follow Me on Facebook

Monthly Archives

Topic Categories

Purpose of Blog

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.

292,417 hits

292,417 hits

Blog at WordPress.com.