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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Living Life Through a Lens, What We Gain and Lose

July 27, 2013

How much of our lives do we view through a narrow lens, whether through the lens of a camera, our …

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Living on the Edge of the Wild

July 11, 2013

Originally posted on Deborah J. Brasket, Author:
I created this blog to explore what it means to be living on the edge of…

The Pieta and the Writer’s Palette

June 16, 2013

It’s been said that for the writer the blank page is our canvas and words our paint. But I don’t …

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The Art of Sohan Qadri – Tapping into the Unconscious

June 9, 2013

When I first encountered one of Sohan Qadri’s paintings, I was plunged like a pebble into a still pool, radiating ripples …

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Lightness of Being, Unbearable and Otherwise

May 20, 2013

I fell in love with the title of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” before I ever read …

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“When Things Go Missing,” Piecing the Puzzle Together

May 5, 2013

Short stories are getting a lot of love lately. May has been proclaimed National Short Story Month. Others have dubbed …

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Wabi Sabi Writing

February 23, 2013

One of the things I love most about reading is discovering in another’s words something about myself that I had …

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A Family of Bloggers Award

December 18, 2012

I’ve been honored with a nomination for the Family of Bloggers Award, thanks to the lovely Sandy, whose blog Another Lovely Day …

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“A Scattering of Rocks” — Zen in the Garden of Eden

December 4, 2012

Sometimes there’s no other way to capture a moment–a way of seeing or being in the world–than through poetry. So …

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Writing – A Leap of Faith

November 26, 2012

Writing, or any creative endeavor, to some extent is a leap of faith and a huge personal risk.  Faith that …

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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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