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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Nature

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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Wheeling Away on the Isle of Pines

March 24, 2013

Certain poems I return again and again to tap into a state of mind that I was experiencing while writing …

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Redwoods and Waterfalls – Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

March 3, 2013

One of my favorite places to visit is the Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park in Big Sur, a two-hour drive …

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A Walk to the River

February 11, 2013

We walked to the river recently, my husband and I and our little dog Mitsy. A short hike down a canyon …

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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 Frosty, Sunlit Morning Walk

January 7, 2013

Yesterday when I woke the frost was so heavy on the grassy meadow behind our house it looked like a …

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O Holy Night – The Sacred and Sublime in Art & Images

December 22, 2012

I’ve gathered some images, sacred and sublime, to scroll through as you listen to Charlotte Church sing “O Holy Night“, …

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Endless Emerging Forms – Photos of Fog and Mist

December 12, 2012

I’ve long been drawn to photos of fog and mist.  Part of it is the feel for the ephemeral and …

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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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