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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: reality

Hauntings, Ghosts, & Demons I Have Known

October 27, 2017

As Halloween draws near, I like to repost a series of true life tales about the hauntings, ghosts, and demons I …

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being

June 12, 2017

I fell in love with the title of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” long before I ever …

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Nature and Consciousness – Seeing Things as They Are

May 27, 2015

Every time I write about nature I get deep into human consciousness. You can’t really separate the two. There is …

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A Dream Within a Dream Within a . . .

April 6, 2014

My daughter’s wedding day had arrived and everything that could go wrong went wrong.  We arrived at the church only …

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Layers of Reality in Bergman’s “Franny and Alexander,” and in Us

April 1, 2014

In several of his films, Ingmar Bergman plays with the notion of multiple layers of reality.  This can be seen …

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Tremble of a Leaf, Balancing Interior and Exterior Lives

July 21, 2013

I wrote this poem as a grad student while living in that highly interior world of academia. I’d been feeling …

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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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