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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Writing Again, Loving It

June 27, 2021

I’m working again on that novel I wrote about in The White Hot Flow of Writing some time ago. I …

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To Hu-Mor, or Less? That Is the Question

May 23, 2021

Last week I was questioning whether my blog had become too serious. To even ask such a question, of course, …

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Struggling to Blog

May 17, 2021

I’ve been struggling to find something to blog about this week. Actually I spent half a day yesterday working on …

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A New Tenderness Toward This Body

May 3, 2021

Crossroads by Louise Glück My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longerI begin to feel a …

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the rapture is already right in front of you

April 4, 2021

I’m still trying to understand why this poem moves me so much, and thought maybe you can help. And What …

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Like Flowers Falling Everywhere: A Poem

March 21, 2021

Everywhere I look I see you, I see us. This fragile hand, this blue pen, this yellow pad. These fingers …

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Neruda: Drunk With the Great Starry Void

March 8, 2021

One of my favorite poets, again, swept me off my feet, expressing the inexpressible with perfect eloquence. Poetry And it …

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Toni Morrison: Diving Into Darkness on Wings of Light

July 27, 2020

Last in my series “Brushes With Blackness” on how Black lives and Black Culture colored my Whiteness. I’d always wanted …

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Welcome Reminders from “The Writer’s Life.” Thank You, Annie

June 3, 2019

I’m finding it harder to blog these days, harder to paint, to play piano, to clean house, to do most …

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Life through a Lens, What We Gain & Lose, Redux

March 28, 2019

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

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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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