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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Love

“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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Resting in the Grace of the World

August 18, 2019

“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear …

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“Endless Love” – A 6th Year Celebration

January 12, 2019

I created this collage to celebrate my daughter and her husband’s 6th wedding anniversary, today. They were married January 12 …

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10,000 Thank-You’s! A Blogging Milepost

December 16, 2018

I have so many things to be grateful for, not least among them the ten-thousand people who, for whatever reason, …

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Seeing the Self in What We Love

November 28, 2018

I’ve become mesmerized by the quote below I found on The Beauty We Love. These first four lines, especially, move …

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“Perfect Love” – All We Need for What Ails Us

September 27, 2018

The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings is Love. Love with a capital L, meaning that …

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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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