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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Aging

Growing Younger, Day by Day, a Gift

October 20, 2024

I just celebrated another birthday and thought I’d share with you again something I wrote a few years ago. For …

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Wet, Raw, Unfinished

October 28, 2021

Instructions for the Journey The self you leave behindis only a skin you have outgrown.Don’t grieve for it.Look to the …

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Right, at Last, and Wide Open

May 7, 2018

I’m letting my hair grow out. Like a girl again. It’s past my shoulders already, still mostly brown with a …

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“The Mountain of My Love” – Poem by Hayden Carruth

November 11, 2014

In the graduation speech that went viral last year, George Saunders wrote: “Most people, as they age, become less selfish and more …

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“Us, Ancient” – A Short Love Story

November 7, 2013

Us, Ancient by Deborah J. Brasket You know what I love most about swimming? How perky my breasts get. All …

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The Joy of Aging

August 23, 2013

Oliver Sacks wrote a piece for the New York Times last month called “The Joy of Old Age (No Kidding!)”. It ended …

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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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