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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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10,000 Thank-You’s! A Blogging Milepost

December 16, 2018

I have so many things to be grateful for, not least among them the ten-thousand people who, for whatever reason, …

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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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Blogging, Another Way of “Breaking Bread”

July 8, 2018

Recently I wrote about blogging as virtual “love-making,” riffing on the new science which defines love as a“micro-moment of positivity resonance.”  But …

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Virtual Love-Making, Why We Blog

July 1, 2018

Often when I leave comments on a blog posts that moved me, I write “I love this post” or “I …

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A Walk on the Wild Side – For People Who Love Addicts

February 19, 2018

A few years ago I started an anonymous blog with the above title to talk about addiction. About trying to …

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Wrapping Up 2017, Embracing New & Old Loves

December 29, 2017

Discovering New Loves – Painting 2017 was the year I revealed my newly discovered passion for painting, and dared to …

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Touching & Being Touched, Why We Blog

October 2, 2017

  “The function of language is not to inform but to evoke . . . responses.”  So writes Jacques Lacan, …

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“Writings from Wild Soul”

July 21, 2017

The first blogger I ever followed and the first to follow me back was Wendy Sarno.  What drew me at …

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5 Years Blogging from the Edge of the Wild

July 9, 2017

I began this blog five years ago, in July 2012. It’s been a wild ride, and I’ve loved every minute …

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Can You Paint a Poem?

April 26, 2017

It’s a question a blogger friend asked one day in response to my comment that I would like to try …

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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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