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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Earth Day

Photos & Poetry to Celebrate Earth Day

April 22, 2024

From “The Shape of Fire” by Theodore Roethke To have the whole air!—The light, the full sunComing down on the …

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Happy Earth Day! May She Live Forever.

April 22, 2023

The spark for the first Earth Day was the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. A marine biologist and …

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Easter and Earth Day – “O Sweet Irrational Worship”

April 25, 2014

A timely blending to celebrate Easter and Earth Day by poet, monk, and mystic, Thomas Merton. O Sweet Irrational Worship …

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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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