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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Prayer

Parenting Advice from The Prophet

May 5, 2024

Your children are not your children.They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you …

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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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Sacred Music from Around the World

October 12, 2020

Long ago my daughter gifted me with a CD of sacred music from around the world. It became a favorite …

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“I’m Praying for You, To Die”

February 10, 2020

I get this message about once a week from my granddaughter’s mother. It goes into great detail about the pain …

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“Thank You”

November 25, 2013

“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” – Meister Eckhart …

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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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