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My Roman Oaks

April 17, 2014

Recently we had visitors who had just returned from Italy. We talked of how easily you can stumble upon ancient …

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Surrender, let Silence have you

March 15, 2014

Originally posted on Zen Flash:
Surrender to the source, Surrender to awareness, this is the only place of protection. Surrender your…

Sea, Sky, Earth, Fire–My Daughter on Her Wedding Day

January 12, 2014

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
She was married beneath a cliff on the edge of the sea standing barefoot on the…

“Taste and see – I am spare”

January 9, 2014

That age-old question “who am I?” haunts us from birth. We sense we are more than what we seem to …

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My Long walk to freedom (and still walking)

December 11, 2013

A deeply thoughtful post from a white woman who grew up in aparteid South Africa.

“A Scattering of Rocks” — Zen in the Garden of Eden

December 4, 2013

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
Sometimes there’s no other way to capture a moment–a way of seeing or being in the…

True Ghost Stories, Part III – When the Dead Refuse to Leave

October 14, 2013

My continuing series of True Life Ghost Stories to celebrate Halloween. My grandmother Margaret had a hard life. Widowed in …

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Emily Dickinson, Blogger Extraordinaire

September 14, 2013

I cannot help wondering whether Emily Dickinson, that famous recluse, would not have been an avid blogger if she had …

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Epitaph for a Tombstone – Exploring Infinity

August 14, 2013

Due to technical difficulties I had to repost this.  Please click the link below to read the reposted version.  Thank you. https://deborahbrasket.wordpress.com/2013/08/14/epitaph-for-a-tombstone-exploring-infinity-4/

The Deer’s Scream, My Mother’s Eyes, and a Ripe Strawberry

June 2, 2013

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
The deer fleeing for its life turns to look at me with my mother’s eyes.  Dark…

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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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