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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Parenting Advice from The Prophet

May 5, 2024

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you …

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Photos & Poetry to Celebrate Earth Day

April 22, 2024

From “The Shape of Fire” by Theodore Roethke To have the whole air!—The light, the full sunComing down on the …

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The Green Fuse that Drives the Flowers

April 7, 2024

The green fuse that Dylan Thomas wrote about in “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower” is …

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Travelers on a Cosmic Journey

March 25, 2024

We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies andwhirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal.We have …

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Evolution Entwined with Love

March 18, 2024

I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …

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Joy Not Shared, Dies Young

March 11, 2024

A lovely reminder from Anne Sexton to share our joys–the simple pleasures of life. So I’m sharing with you her …

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A Kind of Love: How the Cup Holds Tea

January 23, 2024

I’ve been thinking about this poem ever since I found it on The Vale of the Soul-Making. The way ordinary …

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O Holy Night, What Stars Give Birth To

December 24, 2023

“Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.” The single-most, salient symbol of Christmas, for me, is a …

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Yosemite, A Temple in the Wild

December 18, 2023

“There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however …

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Blessings–For the Ear, For the Eye, & For You

November 20, 2023

Can’t you hear the laughter of the children, the slap of running feet, the rush and tumble of the waves? …

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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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