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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing from the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: spring flowers

Nothing But Miracles in the Backyard & Beyond

April 14, 2025

This spring as I’m walking around the yard, capturing all the beauty I see on film, I’m reminded of Walt …

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The Green Fuse that Drives the Flowers

April 7, 2024

The green fuse that Dylan Thomas wrote about in “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower” is …

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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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