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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: Science

Personification & The Interplay Between I and Other

June 10, 2024

The personification of nature and inanimate objects is age-old, something we humans have done as far back as we remember. …

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Evolution Entwined with Love

March 18, 2024

I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …

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Nature and Human Consciousness, No Separation

September 3, 2023

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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Listen to Your Life, the Holy, Hidden Heart of It

August 22, 2022

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and the pain of …

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Slivers of Reality in a More-Than-Human World

August 14, 2022

We like to think that we humans, with our five marvelous senses, are in full receipt of what this world …

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Virtual Love-Making, Why We Blog

July 1, 2018

Often when I leave comments on a blog posts that moved me, I write “I love this post” or “I …

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On Mist & Fog, Endless Emerging Forms

December 3, 2017

I’ve long been drawn to images of fog and mist.  Part of it is the feel for the ephemeral and …

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Playing Piano, a Full-Body Workout for the Brain

September 25, 2017

As I’ve begun learning to replay the piano, I’ve been amazed to realize what a complicated endeavor it is. It …

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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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Music is More Feeling than Sound

May 7, 2016

From “Peter Quince at the Clavier” by Wallace Stevens. Just as my fingers on these keys Make music, so the …

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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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