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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Recognition for “Slow Swirl at the Edge of Time”

March 26, 2018

I entered a local art show for the first time this month and was surprised and pleased to get recognition …

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“Slow Swirl at the Edge of Time”

September 10, 2017

This naming of this painting did not come “like a conversation between two lovers,” as the name of my last …

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Sensuous Sunday: Air, an Enigma

May 31, 2015

“What a mystery is the air, what an enigma to these human senses! On the one hand , the air …

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Nature and Consciousness – Seeing Things as They Are

May 27, 2015

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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Music for Sailing Among the Stars

November 14, 2013

One of my poems has been set to music. An amazing composer, Troy Armstrong, emailed me earlier this year and …

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The Joy of Aging

August 23, 2013

Oliver Sacks wrote a piece for the New York Times last month called “The Joy of Old Age (No Kidding!)”. It ended …

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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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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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Birthing and Rebirthing

October 9, 2012

My granddaughter was born a few days ago and my heart fell apart. There’s something so  breathtakingly tender, and heartbreakingly sweet, …

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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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