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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Time to Still & Chill, Art & Music

September 30, 2025

After these past two tumultuous weeks launching my new novel, I felt a sudden need to space out for a …

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Chopin’s Nocturnes Tinkling the Keys of Consciousness

October 4, 2021

I spent Sunday morning in bed with my coffee listening to Chopin’s complete nocturnes playing on my phone beside me. …

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Perfect Pairings, Evans’s “Peace Piece” & Sapiro’s Skies

September 28, 2017

Bill Evans’s “Peace Piece” is “an unrehearsed modal composition that he recorded for his “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” LP in …

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Self Portrait – “Melt into that Fierce Heat of Living”

March 22, 2014

Self Portrait by David Whyte It doesn’t interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want 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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