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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Poem & Paintings, A Song

March 4, 2019

The sun does not shine on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, …

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A Symphony in Blue and Gold

February 17, 2019

I know I’ve written about this before, my love affair with the colors blue and gold, how they play so …

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Three to Share: Beauty, Art, Place

January 7, 2019

I love discovering new blogs that inspire me and want to share three, among many, that I discovered this past …

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2018 – A Look Back, a Look Forward

December 31, 2018

The end of a year always signals a kind of reckoning for me, the urge to look back and assess …

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O Holy Night, Images Sacred & Sublime

December 24, 2018

Star_birth_in_Messier_83_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope) I’ve gathered some images, sacred and sublime, to scroll through as you listen to “O Holy Night“, one of my …

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Pied Beauty, Poem & Paintings

November 19, 2018

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a …

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New Paintings, the Folding Hills of California

November 11, 2018

I’ve long loved the way the rolling hills along the coast of California fold together and overlap, the sensuality of …

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New Paintings, Trees and More Trees

October 21, 2018

Three new paintings, part of my forest series, I suppose, but really just playing with styles and possibilities. All three …

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“Something in This Sleeping Earth” – Two by Whyte, One by Fiske

October 18, 2018

All My Body Calls All my body calls for something in this sleeping earth we call the spirit. But how …

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Inside the Holy Grove of Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia

October 14, 2018

Stepping inside La Sagrada Familia cathedral is like walking into an enchanted forest. Your gaze goes and up and up, …

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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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