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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Love

A Secret Garden for My Granddaughter

September 13, 2020

I’m painting again, thanks to my granddaughter. She turns 8 years old next week and custom ordered two paintings for …

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Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light

July 27, 2020

Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …

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My Arms Are Empty, But My Heart Is Full

July 19, 2020

My granddaughter who had been living with me this past year is visiting with her Aunt and Uncle this summer, …

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“What I Regret Most, Failures of Kindness” – Graduation Speech Goes Viral

May 26, 2020

With graduation season upon us, I thought I’d re-share the most inspiring graduation speech I ever read. One by the …

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Mothering the World on Mother’s day

May 10, 2020

In the Time of Corona we all need a little mothering on Mother’s Day. A huge influence on my understanding …

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“Love is a Language Few Practice, But All Speak”

March 8, 2020

Unreast in Baton Rouge By Traci K. Smith            after the photo by Jonathan Bachman Our …

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To Crave & To Have: A Thing & Its Shadow

January 21, 2020

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break …

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From the Tailwinds of 2019, Hope Lost & Its Glimmer

January 5, 2020

I ended a blog post at the tail end of 2018 with this wish list for 2019: A Look Ahead …

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From Pete the Cat: It’s All Good

October 14, 2019

One of the joys of grandparenting is revisiting stories I loves to read my own children and sharing them with …

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Life’s Sweet Longing for Itself

October 3, 2019

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through …

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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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