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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Love

“Wake Up Amazed” by Kaze Gadway

May 14, 2014

Sometimes I come across a blog post that I just have to share. The excerpt below is from Kazegadway – …

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“Perfect Love” – An Antidote for All that Ails Us

December 20, 2013

The highest common denominator for all spiritual practices and religious teachings, as I’ve come to understand, is Love. That is, …

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“Us, Ancient” – A Short Love Story

November 7, 2013

Us, Ancient by Deborah J. Brasket You know what I love most about swimming? How perky my breasts get. All …

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Love is the Refusal to Defeat Any Individual, MLK, Jr. – From Zen Flash

September 7, 2013

Reblogged from Zen Flash “In the final analysis, love is not merely an emotional something. Love is creative, understanding goodwill …

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“Mostly Love, Now” and “The Cows at Night”

August 9, 2013

Since posting the speech by George Saunders I’ve been searching, without success for the poem he mentions by Hayden Carruth, …

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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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Celebrating Lasting Love

April 28, 2013

They say opposites attract. That was true when my husband and I first met. I found in him everything I …

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Love Lost, and Renewed

April 25, 2013

Not long after I decided to leave my husband I met someone new. I was working part-time at a book …

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Love’s Duplicity

April 21, 2013

When I first fell in love, it was a hot thing—urgent, possessive, almost feverish at times. I truly saw love …

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The Geometry, and Geography, of Love

April 17, 2013

I wrote these poems while still quite young, and very much in love, and loving the way our bodies “meet and …

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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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