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Mar. 3, 2023 I found this little nature treasure, and I pressed it in a book on parchment paper. It was ready sooner than I thought, today. * 😊☀️🤗🤗 💕—Jade “Patty Griffin Live in Boston”
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***Dinner, music, drinks, Sat. March 4, 2023 5 – 7 pm: https://facebook.com/events/s/abstractions-exhibition-and-ar/664383655485416/ with my painting “In Rhythm” (closeup of part of painting) on display and for sale at the Morini Gallery, MassArts Center, opposite the concert venue, a calming, nicely set up quaint art gallery overlooking a lake in Massachusetts. The Art Gallery is open…
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Living life from a new angle, with his own confidence peaking, Peeko says, ‘Hmm, let me see this home library…Now, maybe I will select the next book to read…’ Curiousity and knowledge are miraculous. 😊🐱📚—Professor Peeko A slow morning…Tea on a morning of clouds and rain…before the Art Gallery. We moved through mindfulness practices from…
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Realizing my own fairy nature was a necessary step I made toward enlightenment. 🧚♀️Fairies are often described as ‘good, beautiful beings’ who like to dance and bring blessings upon others, sometimes with a bit of mischief or accidental mishaps mixed in. They may also shuffle things around at times, like their own profile pictures. They…
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All welcome, artists, art appreciators, art collectors: This Saturday, March 4, 2023, there is an open to the public dinner with a cash bar and live music to meet the artists at this Reception celebration and to start off the “Artist Gallery’s Abstractions Exhibition” at the new Morini Gallery at the MassArts Center, Mansfield, Massachusetts,…
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connecting with his inner lion 🦁, “Keep calm and carry on.”—😽Peeko The literary salon begins, that is, Miss May’s salon at home. I learn a new fun phrasing…place the phone away when not using it in a place, as if it is now naptime for the baby phone, and easy to take a break quickly…
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My novel draft notebook and the most recent pgs written, printed, to be continued, poetry notebook for initial poetic lines and imagery, my most recent draft of a poem I’ve completed and sent in to a magazine 💚, my fiction notebook came along as loose papers rest on it nicely whether or not I plan…
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Poet b., April 13, 1939, Ireland, portrait of the poet in 1970, by Herald Tribune. At the time years ago, it upset me just a little that I could not experience for myself in the reading what my poetry professor had said about the poet Seamus Heaney: His writing has an original style, a style…
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New Art Gallery My painting was selected to be in the upcoming local art show in Massachusetts, the details are here. I brought in the painting covered before the snow. The Gallery also has plays and shows there I’d like to see. Inspiration for a Poem I also completed this afternoon my first poem in…
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🍃😊💕 afterthought: I did not put my hair in a shamrock shape? ☺️☘️ Two sips was pleasant, a gentle spin of the self, and I realize I have been showing you Bears all the time on the Blog and things I’ve found on the ground to press that mainly just me seem to find wonderful,…
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It is time for tea! …time for tea 😊🫖🤗 —💕Jade
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I have a poem beginning. It is very comforting this blank lined book, letting the poem continue next with more visceral things…For tonight, I place the book beneath my pillow and sleep and dream of late winter into very early gradual spring…of friendship…
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On the Pulse of Morning by Maya Angelou (1928-2014) A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon, The dinosaur, who left dried tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But…
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One of my favorite novelists, a book that often comes to mind as greatly lyrical and a full, philosophical story, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, my reflective review: The most moving novel I’ve read this year in 2022, and the most recent one I’ve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977)…
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I redid it at the beginning realizing I’d like it more nature-based, date, few words with pencil optional. I kept the original dates with a look of simplicity. 😊🍃
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A poetry book I read by a new poet to me after first meeting her during a Zoom poetry session awhile before, having not yet read her work, Indelible Magazine: Connection and Disconnection in the Ikea Age. I’d really enjoyed her humor! and now the brilliant collection, The Land That Grew Me by Mab Jones,…
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first poet I’d read again that helped me start up the blog in 2020. I had mentioned her name in a poem, “The Sea Lair” in my first full-length poetry book, Moonflower (2018), poems spanning over a long period of years, and I would like her more in time.…
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There was not much of a literary salon today, but there is no rigidness! Instead, mainly, a teddybear beauty salon…🧸 Alisi’s first bath, fur fluffed and gently brushed (left), sitting with Teddie, also bathed and brushed. Behind the bears you may see a notebook and pen where I am handwriting passages of my first novel.…
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…through poems. Dragonwell green tea just poured, 🧸 Teddie and 🧸Alisi just had their bath (warm water cloth with light soap) and are drying off, A book of Collected poems by W.B. Yeats for reading in the snow-time. 💕—Jade rove: to wander around*
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Feb. 14, ‘23 promotional photos for my latest poetry book: A Little Honey Sweetens The Flame by Jade Nicole Beals (2021), poems of passion, connection, admiration, and the creating and embracing of oneself and one’s surroundings…💞Jade
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I had a wonderful time; I am happy to be home…I am happy for tomorrow, I want to pick up my canvas again, the still life with the pink glow; the glow I’d painted first, and it’d made the mood I’d wanted, and reminded me of “undertones” in art. It is without the main subject…
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I’ve also been thinking of my Grandma, my mom’s mom, who passed away a few years ago, I think of her often, sensing her near and especially in caring for my plants. I found this book in my room in Brooklyn today on my birthday. My mom had told me my Grandma would have sometimes…
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😊 💕 a traffic jam sunset the night before
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Tomorrow is my birthday 🙂 (Feb. 19)…I will see my family in New York and celebrate my nephew’s first birthday! There was a little glue still; I knew it was the same one, and I rinsed it gently. My Nature Book I began yesterday night, with this sweet surprise from the day before: The Back…
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What I’ve found helpful for a long time, at the beginning or when I’d found them in their true form are yoga alone or with others meditation dancing walking prayer love creativity writing poetry story writing, painting drawing Miss May and the salon listening to my own inner voice sensory pleasures books to read and…
blush of dawn by Jade Nicole Beals
Blush of Dawn 