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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Nothing But Miracles

May 7, 2017

  Miracles Walt Whitman, 1819 – 1892 Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of …

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Can You Paint a Poem?

April 26, 2017

It’s a question a blogger friend asked one day in response to my comment that I would like to try …

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Celebrating Poetry: Music of the Spheres

April 17, 2017

The first poem I shared on my new blog five years ago was scribbled in the starlight on a moonless …

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Celebrating Poetry: Blown Away By Matthew Dickman

April 13, 2017

In celebration of April as the National Month of Poetry, I’ve been looking back at posts on poetry that I’ve …

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Poetry: The Thing We Die for Lack Of

April 9, 2017

Paul Klee, Versunkene Landschaft, 1918 Wallace Stevens once famously said: “You can’t get the news from poems, but men die …

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My Art or My Novel. Which Would You Choose?

March 16, 2017

Someone asked me recently what I loved more, my painting or my writing? Or, she added, is that like trying …

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“Able to Be the Mother of the World”

February 12, 2017

These words from the Tao Te Ching are my mantra. They inspire me to identify with and live larger than …

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A Poet & an Artist on Making the Unknown Known

January 30, 2017

I came across two quotations about the creative process recently and found such striking similarities I had to explore them …

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Painting, a New Passion

December 5, 2016

Writing has always been the primary passion in my life, the thing I love most to do and identify with. …

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A Balm to Calm the Troubled Mind

November 14, 2016

In these seemingly dark and troubling times, I’m finding that reflecting on the following words of wisdom to be a …

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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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