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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Studying the Masters, Playing with Style

February 26, 2017

Not long after I finished those first three watercolors paintings I shared last week, I was inspired to try to …

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Dare I Share? Paintings in Progress

February 21, 2017

Family and friends have been asking me to show them some of the watercolors I’ve been working on, so I …

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“Able to Be the Mother of the World”

February 12, 2017

These words from the Tao Te Ching are my mantra. They inspire me to identify with and live larger than …

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O Holy Night, Ablaze in Light

December 21, 2016

Star_birth_in_Messier_83_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope) “Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright.” The single-most, salient symbol of Christmas, for me, is …

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Waking Up in an Alternate Reality

November 9, 2016

I woke this morning feeling as if I had  been tossed from the real world into an alternate universe–where Trump …

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Soul-Searching in a Sea of Images

October 26, 2016

I stayed up late last night, way past my bed time, searching Pinterest for images to save to my boards.It …

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The Face of Bliss, While Swimming

September 3, 2015

Have you ever seen a more contented face? What is it about children and water that mixes together with such …

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The Slant of Afternoon, Playing with Light

July 10, 2014

A notebook full of poetry I had worked on for years has disappeared. Vanished. Many of the poems I never …

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This Mud-Luscious World of Woe and Bliss

April 10, 2014

Lately I’ve had a hard time getting a grip on myself. I seem to be sliding in so many directions. …

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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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