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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: Creative Nonfiction

Our Quest for Wholeness – Part II of “Some Tragic Falling Off”

January 26, 2014

“Duality, difference, and desire presuppose “some tragic falling off” from an original (mythical or otherwise) world of undivided wholeness.” So …

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“Some Tragic Falling Off” into Difference and Desire

January 19, 2014

I’ve been thinking a lot about desire and loss lately and remembering a paper I wrote exploring this topic. It …

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“Perfect Love” – An Antidote for All that Ails Us

December 20, 2013

The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings, as I’ve come to understand, is Love. That is, …

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Houseless, not Homeless

December 13, 2013

Once when I was part of an effort to end homelessness in our community, one of the participants who had …

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“A Strange and Beautiful” Entanglement

November 27, 2013

Recently, when most needed, I came across the essay “A Beautiful and Strange Otherness” by Wisdom Bridge founder, Francis Weller. …

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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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True Ghost Stories, Part VII – Do I Believe This Stuff? “You know nothing, Jon Snow”

October 31, 2013

I haven’t experienced any hauntings or paranormal activity since the “demon” sitting on my chest eventually scurried away. If you …

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True Ghost Stories, Part VI – Evil Incarnate

October 28, 2013

The dark creatures that haunt our dreams and come to us as waking nightmares take many shapes or forms, but …

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True Ghost Stories, Part V – A Demon on My Chest

October 21, 2013

Have you ever awoken from sleep to find yourself paralyzed with fear as something dark and evil sitting on your …

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True Ghost Stories, Part IV – Resident Evil: In the Belly of the Beast

October 18, 2013

We felt so fortunate. Dale had a job in San Francisco that summer, and his Uncle who lived nearby asked …

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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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