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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Landscapes of the Mind – Six Singular Experiences

September 7, 2020

It’s all about the mind, of course. All experience filters through it, the outward and inner, nature and the art …

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David Whyte, Putting Down the Weight of Aloneness

September 2, 2020

I’ve long been a fan of David Whyte’s poetry and this one is no exception. It seems it may have …

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To Live Content With Small Things

August 9, 2020

A few pebbles for the pond . . . .  To live content with small things; To seek elegance rather …

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“Vast Emptiness, Vastly Full”

August 2, 2020

There are a few refrains that I turn to again and again when I want to get a clearer sense …

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Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light

July 27, 2020

Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …

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Brushes with Blackness – Feminist or Womanist?

July 12, 2020

Third in series in how Black lives and Black culture colored my Whiteness. I came of age during the Second …

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“What I Regret Most, Failures of Kindness” – Graduation Speech Goes Viral

May 26, 2020

With graduation season upon us, I thought I’d re-share the most inspiring graduation speech I ever read. One by the …

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Music to Comfort & Inspire

May 17, 2020

Friends on Facebook shared these two music videos with me recently. I loved them so much I had to share …

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Mothering the World on Mother’s day

May 10, 2020

In the Time of Corona we all need a little mothering on Mother’s Day. A huge influence on my understanding …

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Poetry in the Time of Corona

May 3, 2020

Leaf shadows thrown by the morning sun against a creamy wall. Soft, sensuous folds of a warm blanket tossed across …

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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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