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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Human Consciousness

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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Night Howls

July 31, 2012

Last month around this time when the moon was full, our nights were filled with howling. Almost every night we …

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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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