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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: art-making

The Transforming Power of Art: Welding the Broken Pieces of Our Lives

March 8, 2026

Art-making has been a transforming power in my life, in my writing and poetry and paintings. Even in the artful …

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A Kintsugi Novel, Finding Beauty in Broken Things

July 27, 2025

I’ve always been fascinated by the Japanese art of kintsugi and all it represents. “The story of kintsugi—this style of …

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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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