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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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A Song from a Dream and Rousseau’s Painting

July 6, 2025

My dreams have always been enticingly rich and evocative. Often it’s as if I’m watching an elaborate film in gorgeous …

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Re-Awakened to a World of Wonder

June 22, 2025

The whole purpose of life, as I see it, this extraordinary experience in being, is to be awake to the …

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Is the Universe a Gift or a Prayer Answered?

June 8, 2025

I’m sharing some poetry by Paul Wittenberger that struck me with their beauty and depth and the questions they raise …

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55 Years and Still Celebrating

April 30, 2025

Years ago I wrote a series of posts called Memoir of a Marriage in Poetry, exploring married love in all …

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Tending Beauty in an Uncertain World

April 21, 2025

Like many of you, I struggle to balance myself in this uncertain world where the rule of law and so …

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Mud-Luscious Spring with Cummings and Klee

March 23, 2025

What better way to welcome our mud-luscious Spring into the world again than with the glee-scrumptious poetry and paintings of …

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Singing the Sea & Cultivating the Mind of Winter

January 29, 2025

I was entranced by Wallace Stevens’ poem “The Idea of Order at Key West” when I first read it in …

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Loss, Desire & the Search for Meaning in Life and Literature

January 19, 2025

Loss and desire–these are the themes that run through so much of what I’m compelled to write about in my …

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Finding Holiness in this Holiday Season

December 18, 2024

As I leave to spend Christmas with family, knowing I’ll not return here to post more before the new year …

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Blessings & Boats, Poems by Collins & Clifton

November 25, 2024

May you and your loved ones, near and far, have a Blessed Thanksgiving. blessing the boats BY LUCILLE CLIFTON(at St. …

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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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