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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: finding balance

Feeling the Flow, from Mountain-Top to Marketplace

November 10, 2025

Have you ever felt being in the flow of things? That optimum experience that many athletes and artists feel when …

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Seeking Authenticity, Sparking Joy

September 8, 2025

What are our responsibilities toward our own self-actualization? I think we all seek authenticity, to be who we truly think …

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Tending Beauty in an Uncertain World

April 21, 2025

Like many of you, I struggle to balance myself in this uncertain world where the rule of law and so …

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Balancing Ourselves in Broken World, Art and Poetry for Troubled Times

September 16, 2024

How do we balance ourselves in a broken world with wars still waging in Ukraine and Gaza, and the bitter …

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Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives

July 21, 2013

I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …

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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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