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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Singing the Sea & Cultivating the Mind of Winter

January 29, 2025

I was entranced by Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Idea of Order at Key West” when I first read it in …

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Finding Holiness in this Holiday Season

December 18, 2024

As I leave to spend Christmas with family, knowing I’ll not return here to post more before the new year …

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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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I Know Nothing But Miracles

October 28, 2024

Miracles by Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle?As to me I know of nothing else but miracles,Whether …

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Growing Younger, Day by Day, a Gift

October 20, 2024

I just celebrated another birthday and thought I’d share with you again something I wrote a few years ago. For …

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The Reason We Are Here on Earth, To Love

October 6, 2024

I came across these two quotes recently and had to share them with you. Each from very different authors, but …

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Balancing Ourselves in Broken World, Art and Poetry for Troubled Times

September 16, 2024

How do we balance ourselves in a broken world with wars still waging in Ukraine and Gaza, and the bitter …

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A Sense of Wonder & Mystery

August 26, 2024

Quote of the Week “Art has the power to make any spot on earth the living center of the universe; …

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The Pieta & the Writer’s Palette

August 12, 2024

It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …

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Birthing & Rebirthing, A Constant Becoming

May 12, 2024

When my granddaughter was born my heart fell apart and I became a new thing. We’re astounded again and again …

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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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