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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Love

A Kintsugi Novel, Finding Beauty in Broken Things

July 27, 2025

I’ve always been fascinated by the Japanese art of kintsugi and all it represents. “The story of kintsugi—this style of …

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55 Years and Still Celebrating

April 30, 2025

Years ago I wrote a series of posts called Memoir of a Marriage in Poetry, exploring married love in all …

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My Lately, Political Turmoil, & Choosing Joy

February 13, 2025

I just got back from spending two weeks in Oceanside with my twelve-year-old granddaughter while her parents (my daughter and …

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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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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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On Herds, Husbands & Being in Love

September 29, 2024

Serendipity, it’s sometimes called. Those happy coincidences that lead to some unexpected pleasure or insight. Or synchronicity. Those meaningful encounters …

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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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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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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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The Desire for a Higher Lovemaking

October 2, 2023

I was struck by the phrase “a desire for a higher lovemaking” when reading Goethe’s poem “The Holy Longing.” It …

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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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