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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: happiness

So Much Happiness – Poem and Painting

March 12, 2023

So Much Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye For Michael It is difficult to know what to do with so much …

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“The Secret of Happiness” – A Coda to My Last Post

December 10, 2018

After my last post on “happy endings” for our novels or ourselves, I’ve been thinking a lot about what exactly …

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The Face of Bliss, While Swimming

September 3, 2015

Have you ever seen a more contented face? What is it about children and water that mixes together with such …

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Happiness Like Holiness

December 4, 2014

I’ve been ill–nothing serious–but lying in bed day after day, even surrounded by good books, tends toward melancholy. Reading Mary …

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Into the Flow, Mountain Top and Market Place Experiences

May 27, 2013

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

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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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