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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Hayden Carruth

On Herds, Husbands & Being in Love

September 29, 2024

Serendipity, it’s sometimes called. Those happy coincidences that lead to some unexpected pleasure or insight. Or synchronicity. Those meaningful encounters …

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“What I Regret Most, Failures of Kindness” – Graduation Speech Goes Viral

May 26, 2020

With graduation season upon us, I thought I’d re-share the most inspiring graduation speech I ever read. One by the …

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“To Be Replaced by Love” – George Saunders’ Wish for Graduates

May 28, 2018

With graduation season upon us, I thought I’d re-share the most inspiring graduation speech I ever read. One by the …

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“The Mountain of My Love” – Poem by Hayden Carruth

November 11, 2014

In the graduation speech that went viral last year, George Saunders wrote: “Most people, as they age, become less selfish and more …

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“Mostly Love, Now” and “The Cows at Night”

August 9, 2013

Since posting the speech by George Saunders I’ve been searching, without success for the poem he mentions by Hayden Carruth, …

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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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