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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: rebirth

Birthing & Rebirthing, A Constant Becoming

May 12, 2024

When my granddaughter was born my heart fell apart and I became a new thing. We’re astounded again and again …

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O Holy Night, What Stars Give Birth To

December 24, 2023

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

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Easter Gladness, Nobel Poet Milosz on How the World Ends & Begins Again

April 2, 2023

A Song on the End of the WorldBy Czeslaw Milosz On the day the world endsA bee circles a clover,A …

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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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Dreaming of Death—Oops, Bears

May 21, 2014

I’m going to die. Soon. That’s what I thought, waking one morning, remembering three distinct dreams, each in which I …

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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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