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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: inspiration

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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Favorite Pairings – Peace and Power in Art & Music

August 17, 2017

Joep Franssens’ Harmony of the Spheres and the art of Sohan Qadri Both express the sense of peace and power …

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Friday Pairings – Butterflies & Vivaldi

August 11, 2017

Sharing some favorite pairings with you on this lovely Friday morning: Artwork – “Evocation of Butterflies” by Odilon Redon Music …

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Water with a Razor’s Edge

July 24, 2017

One of my favorite pastimes when we were sailing was watching the wake the boat made slipping through still waters. …

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

June 12, 2017

I fell in love with the title of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” long before I ever …

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Trying to Capture the Light

May 13, 2017

Capturing light in painting is one of the artist’s greatest challenges and deepest joys. I fell in love with the …

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Nothing But Miracles

May 7, 2017

  Miracles Walt Whitman, 1819 – 1892 Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of …

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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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