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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: 2020 presidential election

A Young Poet and Rapper Throw Light on the State of Our Union

January 24, 2021

“A Return to Joy!” That’s what I was going to blog about today after watching the horror of the January …

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“The Fierce Urgency of Now”: Dismantling the Big Lie, Bridging the Big Divides

January 18, 2021

Like so many Americans, I’ve been struggling these past twelve days to wrap my mind around what happened on January …

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The Gift of Consession

November 15, 2020

“Donald Trump is going to be our president. We must accept this result and then look to the future. We …

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Grieving for America, and Getting Past It

September 27, 2020

I found this quote by Mary Oliver in a recent blog post and it struck a chord. Ah, world, what …

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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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