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Featured Friday, I sketched on the canvas to create a 70th anniversary art for my grandparents (in law.) My favorite part of my own contribution to the painting in vision is a very simple subject with a refreshing, sensory feeling and in my mind, still unseen. I felt like dancing after my sketchbook show this…
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Friday night for a poetry reading. This is a recent poem I wrote in time for spring in Boston. When I first posted this reading today, I revised the poem after hearing it (and that is a good writing tip—this one is complete.) I recorded this poem while in the car waiting for a seat…
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My paintings are now varnished up to date with a very subtle protective coat; I am sitting at home after a day at the museum. This photo is my own art at home now: the blue painting on the left, then a pink anemone, a famous botanical drawing print I’d found at a flea market…
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Sketchbooks make great conversation pieces like at a tea party. My second sketchbook is complete. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” is the cover of this pocket sketchbook. And the art on the wall is my painting, “Sun Shower” (2023) in dim-light dark. 🙂 The first 5 sketches are from May 2014. I don’t remember if I…
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by Jade Nicole Beals Heat rises, and I seem to forget this. I place on the sunglasses that match this skirt and top outfit. Breezing in through the hallway, this sweetness must be the springtime flowers a-blossoming. I step outside the door, and the cold air grasps my bare thigh in Boston. I go right…
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(As I awaken and add in this photo, a blush of dawn palette 🎨, kisses sent up, as it gets light outside 🙂 * 3:30 am a nightmare not real not real… I notice the room, my breathing, distant lulling sounds, my whole body, my eyes are still open but I feel them relax…Going over…
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A poem from the medieval era poet known as Rumi, writing in the year 1200. This is my choice Rumi of the 4 books I have. It’s called Unseen Poems and it happens to be a pocket-book. It keeps the translations into English like the original traditional forms, such as ghazal, a form I have…
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you have that look like you have just read the ending of your now favorite book and have not told anyone else just yet * Oh no, no more ‘trouble’ haiku and tanka:) but Rumi does often get my pen going……🖋️😊💕
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A poem by Rumi 😊☀️ by Rumi (My answer: …A thousand more worlds than an almond and much sweeter than the sugarcane…💎😊.)
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(I asked my mom if she had any photos of my great grandma to send me whose birthday is featured in the post. And she sent me this photo. ✔️ My Great Grandma Rose you can see now! She was very shy and rarely wanted to be in a photo so this is special, but…
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💕—Jade
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pocket edition in the morning light 😊. You can also view this short silent movie on YouTube if you prefer. (That YouTube is just for blog videos or talk shows, and I link them here. My Yoga YouTube is a separate Channel linked on my About page.) 💕 Love, Jade
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My grandma and grandfather in law celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary this March (the 1st). And my grandfather in law, Gerry commissioned a painting for the occasion…He wanted me to paint something expressive or with a sense of “modern art” and is fine with it being ready when it is ready. 🙂 And no hurry…
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I begin a new novel tonight, Singrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, The Wreath (1920) set in Norway during the medieval era. I like to read historical novels; I also love that this passage in words expresses so closely my own inspiration for my painting, “Sun Shower” 2023. It almost brought me tears. 💕Jade January 19, 2023
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I brought home this plant today, on the bus home in the inside pocket of my side bag, and I have learned how to care for it. It is a rubber plant, ‘peperomia’ and it is also cat and dog friendly. The tag named it an Angel plant and gave it the name, “Golden.” It…
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(A past photo of Peeko and Basil together. Peeko sat next to it on his own; it had grown since then) It is the first day of spring, and I lost my only surviving plant of 2021, a basil plant known as “Baby Boy Basil.” I tried to replant it in the soil today when…
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I sketched Peeko while he reclined in the sun on a yoga mat as I was finishing some stretches myself. He was very glad to be drawn and I even showed him the completed drawing afterwards and he was pleased. This is my other pocket sketchbook, and I am glad to have completed my 1st…
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yoga ‘til sleepy…I do recommend this 🙂 I have learned a lot about many little things, like laundry—Yes I have done plenty but now I like fashion, so there are more varieties and also plenty of not-a-good-fit returns to building a wardrobe this year. I found a new top I liked at the mall and…
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…I guess I did some of my own ‘field work’ sketching ‘in the field’ today. A low pine in the sunshine, Mar. 18, 2023, from my pocket sketchbook near home. I sat on a rock to view this scene of pine trees in the afternoon light, and I placed my jacket against me as a…
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I think my expression captures the author’s expression in general. My thoughts on Field Work by Seamus Heaney (1979), his 5th book and my 1st full read of his writing: His poetry technique and style of writing is so appealing. This was kind of a hard book to read because it is so innovative in…
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️…angels, nature, love, celtic spirituality, and so on and on… —Jade
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Margot, ‘Etiquette Coach’ and student, Bianca ☀️The Summer of Sunshine and Margot by Susan Mallery I will just be reading this book, and in light of the character’s advice, finding new ways to cross my legs, 🌫😊📚💕—Jade
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Triptych— three poems within one (my own photo of clover and pine last summer) by Seamus Heaney Field Work (1979). This poem makes use of many metaphors, or maybe more accurately figurative language; it historically refers to a tragic event known as “Bloody Sunday,” Seamus writing this poem just after a more recent event that…
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This is a great sky this morning for the occasion and song. Today is singer-songwriter, Patty Griffin’s birthday! Happy Birthday Patty! 💕💕🎂🍀🍀🍀🍀 You may remember I was listening to her music in January and by February I found her on tour and live in Boston that night and got tickets. You can watch her live…
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The local Book Club meeting was a lot of fun last night! Start my day unwound… I began reading the Book Club’s book for the meeting, The Summer of Sunshine and Margot by Susan Mallory when I was home from meeting last night, and then I will read the next book Black Cake by Charmaine…
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P.S. Tomorrow comes. This letter I’d received yesterday is a blessing to read even with great struggles it has been awhile that someone has reached in as a friend this way with detail, and I met her years ago as pen-pal friend I’d been just getting to know when major life stress changes happened soon…
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Cooked a delicious dinner and resting, a little anxious mood calming, letter received I wish to read soon Peeko sits with it, interested and with the poetry book Field Work by Seamus Heaney I may also begin tonight. I am working on contacting friends directly rather than joining or writing on public pages as I…
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There may be a pause on the blog (because I’ve written consistently for a long time I thought to mention it when I was feeling that.) But with a new plan in life I should be okay to continue. 7 days I refer to the story of creation, a series of continuous change, with a…
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This little scholar 🐱 is getting ready for the lit salon! ‘Tho he enjoys violence and mischief, in entertainment only, and esp. female warriors, we did not read this one together. 🙂 Peeko hit the book with his paw as it was resting on the table with a bookmark, and I opened a page to…
blush of dawn by Jade Nicole Beals
Blush of Dawn 