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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Nature

Ding-Dong, The Witch Is Dead!

May 30, 2021

Like many living in rural areas, my husband and I enjoy watching the show that nature puts on outside our …

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A Magical Day at San Simeon Bay

February 28, 2021

Dale and I spent a magical day recently at San Simeon Bay along Highway 1, just below Hearst Castle on …

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Will Salmon Swim Upstream Through City Streets?

February 7, 2021

Once Upon a Time, A Poem In an eon, will Trumpism portend another Troy, a Trojan horse whose armies eviscerated …

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Exploring the Deer Paths Behind My Home

December 4, 2020

I spent a lovely morning recently exploring some of the deer paths behind our home, stopping to take photos along …

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Landscapes of the Mind – Six Singular Experiences

September 7, 2020

It’s all about the mind, of course. All experience filters through it, the outward and inner, nature and the art …

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Finding Our Place in the Family of Things

November 18, 2019

I often turn to the poetry of Mary Oliver when seeking solace, when trying to negotiate a path through the …

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October Trees, Falling Leaves, Bursts of Glory

October 31, 2019

October is my birth month. I’ve always had mixed feelings about that. Being born when the days are growing shorter, …

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Resting in the Grace of the World

August 18, 2019

“When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear …

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On a Quick Walk to the Mailbox

March 24, 2019

After so much rain this year on the central coast of California, the hillsides around our home are green and …

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Poem & Paintings, A Song

March 4, 2019

The sun does not shine on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, …

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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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