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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Hilma af Klint: A Spiritual Perspective

March 28, 2021

The abstract artwork of Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) predated that of Kandinsky, Klee, and Mondrian, and so some say that …

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Franz Wright: Like Touching a Bird’s Exposed Heart

March 11, 2021

Reading this poem on Vale of Soul-Making struck me to the core, it is so exquisite. That mingling of the …

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Neruda: Drunk With the Great Starry Void

March 8, 2021

One of my favorite poets, again, swept me off my feet, expressing the inexpressible with perfect eloquence. Poetry And it …

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Sacred Music from Around the World

October 12, 2020

Long ago my daughter gifted me with a CD of sacred music from around the world. It became a favorite …

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“More to Me Than Time Allows to Be”

October 4, 2020

I wrote this years ago, a kind of declaration for a state of being with which I passionately identified, although …

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Grieving for America, and Getting Past It

September 27, 2020

I found this quote by Mary Oliver in a recent blog post and it struck a chord. Ah, world, what …

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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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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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