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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: quotations

A Sense of Wonder & Mystery

August 26, 2024

Quote of the Week “Art has the power to make any spot on earth the living center of the universe; …

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Heat & Heart, A Valentine for Lovers

February 14, 2022

1. I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around …

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Satie’s Gnossienne, Forking Paths, and Time’s Ever Presence

November 7, 2021

Time-travelling—that’s what it feels like when listening to Erik Satie’s Gnossienne. When I close my eyes and let the music …

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Still Open to the Beauty of the World

February 1, 2021

“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this …

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To Live Content With Small Things

August 9, 2020

A few pebbles for the pond . . . .  To live content with small things; To seek elegance rather …

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The Insatiable Eye – Sontag on Photography

March 31, 2019

In her book of essays On Photography, Susan Sontag speaks of the “insatiability of the photographing eye” in our image-obsessed …

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Three to Share: Beauty, Art, Place

January 7, 2019

I love discovering new blogs that inspire me and want to share three, among many, that I discovered this past …

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When the Sea Rises and the Light Fails

September 21, 2018

“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light …

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The Poetics of Place: Redwood Speech,Watershed Prayers

September 2, 2018

“I want to see our words jump off the ground, erupt from a sensual earth, musty, humid, gritty. I want …

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Art Enhances a Sense of Wonder & Mystery

August 18, 2018

Quote of the Week “Art has the power to make any spot on earth the living center of the universe; …

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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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