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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Spirituality

Travelers on a Cosmic Journey

March 25, 2024

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies andwhirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal.We have …

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Evolution Entwined with Love

March 18, 2024

I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …

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O Holy Night, What Stars Give Birth To

December 24, 2023

“Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.” The single-most, salient symbol of Christmas, for me, is a …

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The Desire for a Higher Lovemaking

October 2, 2023

I was struck by the phrase “a desire for a higher lovemaking” when reading Goethe’s poem “The Holy Longing.” It …

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Redux

September 24, 2023

I wrote this some time ago and I’m revisiting it now because it describes so well how I’ve been feeling …

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Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full

August 28, 2023

There are a few refrains that I turn to again and again when I want to get a clearer sense …

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Seamless Being, A Poem

August 20, 2023

Seamless Being I’m not sure what there is to say anymore about being me,Who I am-was-will-be.We flow together seamlesslyWithout end. …

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Discovering Sinead’s Music – Holy Rage & Sublime Divine

July 30, 2023

I’m a late arrival to the Sinead O’Conner lovefest. I’d heard of her, of course, seen the photos, snippets of …

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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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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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