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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Human Consciousness

Epitaph for a Tombstone – Exploring Infinity

August 14, 2013

I came across this recently, something I wrote years and years ago. So much has changed since then, but not …

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Living Life Through a Lens, What We Gain and Lose

July 27, 2013

How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …

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Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives

July 21, 2013

I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …

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The Pieta and the Writer’s Palette

June 16, 2013

It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …

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Into the Flow, Mountain Top and Market Place Experiences

May 27, 2013

Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …

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Lightness of Being, Unbearable and Otherwise

May 20, 2013

I fell in love with the title of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” before I ever read …

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Personification – Infusing “I” in “Other”

April 8, 2013

The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. …

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Blogging as Virtual Love-Making, And the Science Behind It

February 4, 2013

Often when I leave comments on a blog posts that moved me, I write “I love this post” or “I …

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“A Scattering of Rocks” — Zen in the Garden of Eden

December 4, 2012

Sometimes there’s no other way to capture a moment–a way of seeing or being in the world–than through poetry. So …

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Nature and Human Consciousness – Seeing Things As They Are

August 9, 2012

Every time I write about nature I get deep into human consciousness. You can’t really separate the two. There is …

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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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