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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Between Dusk and Dawn a New Year Appears to Appear

January 1, 2023

And yet we know it’s all just one continuous unfolding as one day or year slips seamlessly into the next. …

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Painting Again—A Wild and Wooly Seascape

November 20, 2022

It’s been awhile. I traded in my pen for my paintbrush these last few weeks. The new novel I’ve been …

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“Catching Every Falling Cup” – A Primal Urge

October 30, 2022

This phrase from my poem Brimless Being is becoming a mantra I turn to often these days. It’s about the …

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Celebrating Ten Years of Blogging

July 11, 2022

When I created this blog ten years ago I named it “Living on the Edge of the Wild.” I saw …

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Time Away, and Back Again. Kinda.

July 7, 2022

I took two months away from blogging, most of May and all of June. Some of that time was finishing …

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Immersed in My Art, Finally

May 2, 2022

Please Do Not Disturb: That’s how I’ve felt these past few months, and even more so these past few weeks, …

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Blue & Gold: The Colors of Democracy in Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

February 27, 2022

Blue and gold are my favorite colors, so much so I created a Pinterest page named Blue & Gold to …

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Embracing Joy, A New Year Resolution

January 24, 2022

Like many, I’ve been finding it difficult to write my normal New Year’s “Looking Back, Looking Forward” blog post. Looking …

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Field Notes From Within, Take Two

November 15, 2021

I’ve revised the poem I posted yesterday. I think this version better captures the heart of it. Let me know …

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Like Flowers Falling Everywhere: A Poem

March 21, 2021

Everywhere I look I see you, I see us. This fragile hand, this blue pen, this yellow pad. These fingers …

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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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