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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

~ Writing on the Edge of the Wild

Deborah J. Brasket, Author

Tag Archives: summer

In the Mood for Love, in Art and Music

August 3, 2025

I’ve always been a romantic. Unabashedly so. A lover of life and all things sweet and sensual, tender and erotic, …

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Summery & Sensual Poetry & Paintings

July 20, 2025

Deep summer for me always evokes lush gardens, lovers strolling, lazy afternoons in the sun and shade, children laughing and …

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Dreaming Roses, Beauty Past Knowing

August 13, 2023

My roses are spent already this summer, and I miss them. Another summer not long ago I spend a day …

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Summering Upstream with Mary Oliver

August 8, 2023

Slowly this summer I’ve been reading and savoring Mary Oliver’s book of essays Upstream while sitting on my patio sipping …

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Hot Hills in Summer Heat, A Poem

July 23, 2023

Hot Hills in Summer Heat I watch them every summer, the hot hills Crouched like a lion beside the road, …

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Blasts From the Past—Summer Bliss

July 2, 2023

When we swim we shed our higher consciousness, the complex, reasoning human organism, and remember, deep inside ourselves, the first …

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The Joy of Sailing in Song, Poetry & Art

August 8, 2021

I came across this much beloved sailing poem recently, which captures so beautifully and vividly my own exuberant experiences at …

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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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