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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Spirituality

Hot Hills in Summer Heat, A Poem

July 23, 2023

Hot Hills in Summer Heat I watch them every summer, the hot hills Crouched like a lion beside the road, …

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Truth & Beauty, My Flower Paintings

June 5, 2023

If “Beauty is truth, truth, beauty,” as Keats’ poem claims, then what do my paintings of flowers, my attempt to …

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Art More Real than “Me”

April 30, 2023

When poet Jorie Graham was three-years-old, she swirled her fingers through her mother’s still-wet oil painting. Her horrified mother picked …

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Easter Gladness, Nobel Poet Milosz on How the World Ends & Begins Again

April 2, 2023

A Song on the End of the WorldBy Czeslaw Milosz On the day the world endsA bee circles a clover,A …

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Growing Orbits of Love — From the Sensual to the Sacred in Prose & Poetry

March 29, 2023

He passed his fingertips over her skin almost without touching her, and experienced for the first time the miracle of …

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Living in the Liminal—Permeable and Transparent

January 12, 2023

I’ve been reading (again) Jane Hirshfield’s Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, a collection of essays on the art …

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Between Dusk and Dawn a New Year Appears to Appear

January 1, 2023

And yet we know it’s all just one continuous unfolding as one day or year slips seamlessly into the next. …

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“Catching Every Falling Cup” – A Primal Urge

October 30, 2022

This phrase from my poem Brimless Being is becoming a mantra I turn to often these days. It’s about the …

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Listen to Your Life, the Holy, Hidden Heart of It

August 22, 2022

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and the pain of …

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Wonder & Worship, Poems for Easter

April 17, 2022

Primary Wonder, by Denise Levertov Days pass when I forget the mystery.Problems insoluble and problems offeringtheir own ignored solutionsjostle for …

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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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