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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Ta-Da! My New Home Studio

January 15, 2018

After having pumped it up, I hope it isn’t a let-down to those who have been waiting to see it, …

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The Art of Living, a Reminder

January 7, 2018

Why do I always forget this? I need to tape it to my wall. “The meaning of life is just …

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“O Holy Night” in Art & Music

December 23, 2017

“Peace on Earth, good will toward men.”  Wishing you all a joyful and blessed Christmas.        

Swept Away by the Music of Pat Metheny

December 11, 2017

I first fell in love with Pat Metheny’s music when listening his seminal album “As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita …

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Three Favorite Art Studios

November 27, 2017

I. My art “home away from home” Nearly every week I come to paint with friends at this art studio, …

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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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Artists & Writers in Their Studios

November 2, 2017

I’ve been collecting images of artist studios and writing spaces as inspiration for creating my own art/writing workspace. Some of …

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Touching & Being Touched, Why We Blog

October 2, 2017

  “The function of language is not to inform but to evoke . . . responses.”  So writes Jacques Lacan, …

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Perfect Pairings, Evans’s “Peace Piece” & Sapiro’s Skies

September 28, 2017

Bill Evans’s “Peace Piece” is “an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” LP in …

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Playing Piano, a Full-Body Workout for the Brain

September 25, 2017

As I’ve begun learning to replay the piano, I’ve been amazed to realize what a complicated endeavor it is. It …

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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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