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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Kindness

Like Flowers Falling Everywhere: A Poem

March 21, 2021

Everywhere I look I see you, I see us. This fragile hand, this blue pen, this yellow pad. These fingers …

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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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On Regret and Kindness – Amazing Graduation Speech by George Saunders

August 3, 2013

It’s not often you get major writers speaking of such mundane and seemingly trite things as “regrets” and “kindness” to …

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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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