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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Field Notes From Within, Take Two

November 15, 2021

I’ve revised the poem I posted yesterday. I think this version better captures the heart of it. Let me know …

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“Looking for Bobby,” or Losing & Finding Ourselves

May 17, 2015

May is short story month, and in celebration I’m posting a short story I wrote years ago and published in …

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This Mud-Luscious World of Woe and Bliss

April 10, 2014

Lately I’ve had a hard time getting a grip on myself. I seem to be sliding in so many directions. …

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“You are the Eternal Universe” – Alan Watts

March 26, 2014

I found this amazing video “You are the Eternal Universe” on the Dionysian GENERATOR blog, where Cody describes it as “a beautiful …

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Our Quest for Wholeness – Part II of “Some Tragic Falling Off”

January 26, 2014

“Duality, difference, and desire presuppose “some tragic falling off” from an original (mythical or otherwise) world of undivided wholeness.” So …

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“Taste and see – I am spare”

January 9, 2014

That age-old question “who am I?” haunts us from birth. We sense we are more than what we seem to …

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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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