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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: music

Chopin’s Nocturnes Tinkling the Keys of Consciousness

October 4, 2021

I spent Sunday morning in bed with my coffee listening to Chopin’s complete nocturnes playing on my phone beside me. …

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The Truth Will Always Be

August 30, 2021

Every day I spend listening to music, sometimes stretches as long as five or more hours at a time, while …

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A Sultry Simone Sunday

August 22, 2021

I first become aware of jazz singer Nina Simone when I watched the film Before Sunrise, with a young Ethan …

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The Joy of Sailing in Song, Poetry & Art

August 8, 2021

I came across this much beloved sailing poem recently, which captures so beautifully and vividly my own exuberant experiences at …

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“Back to the Garden” with Stardust and Irises

June 6, 2021

This painting is considered by many as Van Gogh’s finest floral, and one of the only two paintings he chose …

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A Trip Through Time and Space with Pauline Anna Strom

February 22, 2021

She calls herself a “musical consort to time.” She once wrote: “I endeavor, through music, to delve into all time …

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A Young Poet and Rapper Throw Light on the State of Our Union

January 24, 2021

“A Return to Joy!” That’s what I was going to blog about today after watching the horror of the January …

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A Celtic Christmas, Favorite Carols

December 18, 2020

One of the things I love most about Christmas is the music, especially the classical carols. Listening to them brings …

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Sacred Music from Around the World

October 12, 2020

Long ago my daughter gifted me with a CD of sacred music from around the world. It became a favorite …

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Music to Comfort & Inspire

May 17, 2020

Friends on Facebook shared these two music videos with me recently. I loved them so much I had to share …

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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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