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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: David Whyte

Finding Holiness in this Holiday Season

December 18, 2024

As I leave to spend Christmas with family, knowing I’ll not return here to post more before the new year …

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Blessings–For the Ear, For the Eye, & For You

November 20, 2023

Can’t you hear the laughter of the children, the slap of running feet, the rush and tumble of the waves? …

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To All Those Missing Their Mothers on Mother’s Day

May 14, 2023

Farewell Letter to My Son She wrote me a letterafter her deathand I remembera kind of happy lightfalling on the …

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David Whyte, Putting Down the Weight of Aloneness

September 2, 2020

I’ve long been a fan of David Whyte’s poetry and this one is no exception. It seems it may have …

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Letters From Beyond the Grave on Memorial Day

May 27, 2019

While neither of these poems have anything in particular to do with remembering those who have given their lives to …

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Astonished, Opened at Last

May 5, 2019

Fallen in Love by David Whyte That day I saw beneath dark clouds the passing light over the water and …

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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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Self Portrait – “Melt into that Fierce Heat of Living”

March 22, 2014

Self Portrait by David Whyte It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to …

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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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