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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Learning to Play (Again)

March 24, 2016

I played piano as a girl and always regretted giving it up. Lately the thought that I may never play …

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Learning What’s Needed to Be Healed

November 19, 2015

  I found this quotation at Zen Flash, and realized it’s just what I needed to hear. Nothing ever really …

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Hot Hills in Summer Heat, Revised

July 9, 2015

“I watch them every summer, the hot hills crouched like a lion beside the road, tawny skin pulled taut across …

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

December 17, 2014

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
I’ve gathered some images, sacred and sublime, to scroll through as you listen to Charlotte Church…

Turning Anger into Action, in Ferguson and Elsewhere

November 25, 2014

I am so angry at the outcome in Ferguson, that there was no indictment to allow a court of law …

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Making Space

October 9, 2014

Originally posted on Writings from Wild Soul:
NASA photo My writing group started up again this week. A lovely circle of women who…

Dialogue with Annie Dillard on “The Writing Life”

August 18, 2014

I read Annie Dillard’s book “The Writing Life” years ago and reread it recently. It was a huge inspiration to …

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The Wildness of Water

June 27, 2014

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
Now that the weather has warmed and heated our pool, Dale and I go swimming every…

Dreaming of Death—Oops, Bears

May 21, 2014

I’m going to die. Soon. That’s what I thought, waking one morning, remembering three distinct dreams, each in which I …

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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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