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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Making Room for all My Loves – Music, Art, Writing

September 21, 2017

A year and a half ago I blogged about Learning to Play (Again) and wrote this I played piano as …

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In the Mood for Love, in Music and Art

September 15, 2017

Some favorite pairings in music and art to start your weekend off. I fell in love with this hauntingly sad-sweet …

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“Slow Swirl at the Edge of Time”

September 10, 2017

This naming of this painting did not come “like a conversation between two lovers,” as the name of my last …

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Naming a Painting, “Like Two Lovers in Conversation”

September 3, 2017

“Warm and rich, rich and warm, which is which?” Like a mantra, these words echo through my mind as I …

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My Undersea Gardens

August 31, 2017

One of our favorite things to do when we were sailing was swimming through the undersea gardens that lay hidden …

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The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette, Redux

August 22, 2017

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

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Favorite Pairings – Peace and Power in Art & Music

August 17, 2017

Joep Franssens’ Harmony of the Spheres and the art of Sohan Qadri Both express the sense of peace and power …

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Playing with Abstracts, Loving the Process

August 13, 2017

I was surprised by how much I love painting abstracts. Just playing with color, design, textures is so freeing and …

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Friday Pairings – Butterflies & Vivaldi

August 11, 2017

Sharing some favorite pairings with you on this lovely Friday morning: Artwork – “Evocation of Butterflies” by Odilon Redon Music …

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California Dreaming

July 30, 2017

Two of my paintings are being shown at a local gallery this month. They are part of an exhibition titled …

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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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