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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Truth & Love Win Again! My Hope & Mantra

November 3, 2024

“Truth and Love wins” was my mantra before the 2020 presidential election. When I woke the next morning after Biden …

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Bearing Witness, Refusing to Turn Away, Again

October 16, 2023

How many times must we do this? Does it ever stop? The earthquakes, floods, and fires. The wars. Ukraine last …

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You Don’t Have to Love Them, Just Love

September 13, 2021

A man lamented to an Elder in his Church that try as he might, he could not love his hyper-critical, …

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“I’m Praying for You, To Die”

February 10, 2020

I get this message about once a week from my granddaughter’s mother. It goes into great detail about the pain …

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“Truth and Love Wins”

November 12, 2017

This has become my mantra in recent months: ‘Truth and Love wins.” It’s what gets me through the day 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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