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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Nature

Waterholes in the Wild and the Backyard

August 13, 2012

Waterholes, whether in the wild or the backyard, are natural gathering places for wildlife and people who like to watch …

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Nature and Human Consciousness – Seeing Things As They Are

August 9, 2012

Every time I write about nature I get deep into human consciousness. You can’t really separate the two. There is …

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Night Howls

July 31, 2012

Last month around this time when the moon was full, our nights were filled with howling. Almost every night we …

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“Redwood Speech, Watershed Prayers”

July 26, 2012

The following essay by Francis Weller captures so much of what I feel about nature, the natural habitat in which …

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The Wildness of Water

July 17, 2012

Now that the weather has warmed and heated our pool, Dale and I go swimming every afternoon. It’s not just …

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Living on the Edge of the Wild

July 12, 2012

I created this blog to explore what it means to be living on the edge of the wild. We all …

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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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