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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Deborah J. Brasket, Author

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Immersed in My Art, Finally

May 2, 2022

Please Do Not Disturb: That’s how I’ve felt these past few months, and even more so these past few weeks, …

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Spinning Tales, It’s in our Bones

December 27, 2021

Story-telling is in our bones. It rises through us like sap through roots and leaves into the air. It began …

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Dervishes of Devotion, A Poem

November 14, 2021

Field Notes from Within My heart is a staunch defender of allI am, beating with relentless passionthe wherewithal of my …

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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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Purpose of Blog

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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