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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Category Archives: The Writing Process

13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After

September 24, 2013

This is the title of a short story I wrote that was published in the Fall Issue of Cobalt Review. …

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Blogging and “The Accident of Touching”

September 17, 2013

These are the last lines of a poem I wrote long ago. The accident of touching is so rare! Sometimes …

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The Pieta and the Writer’s Palette

June 16, 2013

It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …

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The Art of Sohan Qadri – Tapping into the Unconscious

June 9, 2013

When I first encountered one of Sohan Qadri’s paintings, I was plunged like a pebble into a still pool, radiating ripples …

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Wabi Sabi Writing

February 23, 2013

One of the things I love most about reading is discovering in another’s words something about myself that I had …

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

December 4, 2012

Sometimes there’s no other way to capture a moment–a way of seeing or being in the world–than through poetry. So …

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Writing – A Leap of Faith

November 26, 2012

Writing, or any creative endeavor, to some extent is a leap of faith and a huge personal risk.  Faith that …

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The Beauty of Blogging – A Tribute to Fellow Bloggers and Followers

November 19, 2012

I discovered a whole new beautiful world when I began blogging four months ago. Until then I’d only read “professional” …

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Hot Hills in Summer Heat

September 17, 2012

“I watch them every summer, the hot hills crouched like a lion beside the road. I see the strength—tawny skin …

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Walking Among Flowers

August 20, 2012

Out of the dark blue sea rose a lush-green mountain ribboned with cascading waterfalls.This was what we saw after 29 …

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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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