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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Yellow & Blue & Orange, O My! Super-Bloom Wildflowers

April 13, 2023

On Good Friday, my husband and I went searching for spring wildflowers in the hills of California. We do it …

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Titian in a Venetian Palace in Downtown Boston, Or Lost in Time and Space

November 1, 2021

That’s how I felt visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum when visiting Boston a few weeks ago. I went to …

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A Magical Day at San Simeon Bay

February 28, 2021

Dale and I spent a magical day recently at San Simeon Bay along Highway 1, just below Hearst Castle on …

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La Gitana, My Larger Self

March 2, 2020

When I first started this blog eight years ago, I had planned on using it as a vehicle for writing …

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The Roman Forum, An Ancient Relic Then & Now

July 28, 2019

The Roman Forum lies right behind the Colosseum, that I wrote about last week. It is the great plaza where …

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Ancient Relic of Rome – The Colosseum, Now & Then

July 22, 2019

It seems so far away now, and long ago, that trip to Europe last summer. Even more so when re-viewing …

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Religious Art, Old and New at the Vatican

June 20, 2019

Visiting the Vatican Museums while in Rome is a must if you love art and history. The vast richness and …

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A Taste of Rome, The Eternal City

June 16, 2019

The last place we visited on our 30-day tour of Europe last year was Rome, the Eternal City. We only …

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A Lovely Sip of Sorrento, Italy

May 13, 2019

With summer around the corner I’ve been looking at all the photos I never shared from last year when I …

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The Fabulous Island of Capri on the Amalfi Coast

April 15, 2019

We spent several days on the fabled Island of Capri during our 30-day whirlwind trip to Europe last summer. It …

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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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