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It was interesting to compose live…I am happy with the final poems, including the 2 recently revised poems: “Dream Catcher”and “Pride” and new audio reading, and new audio reading of “Your Name.” I am looking forward to saving new poems I may write offline, to submit to literary magazines, to link, and I now find…
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(I half-forgot there was a camera taking my portraits; yes that is Peeko next to me.) I am reading Seamus Heaney’s Poems, 1965 – 1975. I wanted a single book of poems, but this was the one there, and I’d browsed many books. I realized then I could happily borrow one book. washed away the…
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Summary: I felt the fumes of the open acrylics were a little strong for me and maybe for Peeko too as he’d left the room a lot. I found my eyes feeling puffy. I’ve done well with Liquitex or Windsor and Newton regular style acrylic paints in the past with scent and quality; you can…
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😊🥰☀️💕—Jade
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I love the sky at the beach…😊♥️ It is so filled with love and mysteries. Blind Date with a Book, the kind of library display I get excited to see each year…to be read with a ghost, as in heavenly spirit, Miss May at the literary salon today. 😊 I’d picked this one ❔😊 “Strange…
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(One tea display setup; they can rotate nicely, and I brighten them regularly.) Happy Poetry Listening Day! Let’s hear them! It’s set up like whatever you land on. 💕 A cup of my Rumi tea and a book to read. (I am unsure if this is actually a wine goblet, photo…
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February 13, 2023 You might have read last week that my painting, “In Rhythm” was selected to be shown at the Morini Gallery, Juried Art Exhibition for Abstractions at the Mass Arts Center from March through April. I just received another notice today that if any painting by any artist at that show sells and…
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I did not realize I was dressed for the Breton Ball when I began reading this. 🖼—Peeko The angel is at eye level now; he greets her. He comforts Mama when she feels sad. 💕 He stays near as I read, beside my writing box, with my love sent to him.
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Before leaving, we took selfies! Dreamy with paintings and colors, mine is just beginning. Painting with my friend Shana, listening to a great selection of French music, and enjoying some chocolate candy…Shana’s art is amazingly innovative and looks to coincide with the color scheme I am just beginning…The time was spent picking a mood and…
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b. Feb 11, 1886 (heaven resets, and so she shows up around my age together.) …Pick an outfit for day, for breakfast. Maybe dance later! Applaud. I translated this French poem by May when I’d found her first book of poems; it is an introduction to the book. 😊💕 But I wrote it two other…
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Lounge-time, thinking of my Nature book, too, in between books to begin a new one, have another new idea: not yet found, soon! In a Green Mood. I was struggling with the best selfie stand position, the tilt starting sliding, caught a pose in time 🙂 💕—Jade
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My painting, “In Rhythm” was accepted into the Abstractions, Morini Gallery Mass Arts Center Juried Exhibition!! This painting will be on display and also available to purchase at the Mass Arts Exhibition, Abstract Show, March through April 2023, details below: Yess! 😀😀😀😀”Within this theme, artists will express interpretations of the vague, but essential elements that…
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From Hidden Music, poems of Rumi, paintings by Azima Melita Kolin. These are some of the first abstract paintings I saw closely that I’d connected with and have treasured. by Azima Melita Kolin
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—My reflective recommendation included in this post 🙂 from February 6, 2023 I began the day in the morning when I woke with one session of a new painting, with a new very portable table easel, given to me by my mom for Christmas. I like to sit and paint, and this is so easy…
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(featured: Peeko on the couch, having a quietly relaxing morning with his Mama) * I was really sad to hear of the earthquake in Turkey today. I was maybe better prepared to hear it with a lovingkindness dream last night, of myself being lifted up in love and carried, before I saw the news or…
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(Photo quote by literary salon host May Ziadeh) Sewing Surprise At the literary salon birthday edition much was shared in my own prayerful personal reflection at the start, and who knew I could mend my own winter coat? I have no problem having a tailor in town sew it, or hem pants. It’d been awhile…
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I have begun a new painting this morning. I will not show you the painting at all (it’s just one session in), but the moment. I got this table easel as a gift from my mom, so portable, only two light pieces. I like to paint seated (standing I get overly energized, and it’s more…
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🙂 Good night Moon, as for activities, let’s forget the original art and the tea for now, let’s go back even further to ancient times, let’s do yoga together, off the grid awhile.
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I happened to see this botanical art, a pink anemone flower! in perfect condition with tag of date range, 1900 – 1924 by Belgian artist PJ Redoute, at a flea market today, also have enjoyed local antique shops recently. The photo shows a glimmer of reflection in the room at night with lamplight; outside this…
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This poem by Yeats you may read from my open book I am reading through (before the book goes back to the library) that I was not wanting to actually read aloud when picked😅, and I actually forgot I’d mentioned 2 favorites. I actually don’t fully understand this poem. Oh, I see: his treasure is…
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I made my new to read books more subtle and blending in with the rest…💕 Starting the day with a special gift in the packaging much anticipated, to be opened and shown. The drum roll feel? I am considering just what I will do with it. 🤔💕💕 ☕️ Also time for tea. 😘 Peeko, me,…
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THE library created sides of the library for classification: as fiction and non-fiction, placing poetry in the non-fiction (based on presenting reality as it is happens or is happening: inc. memoir, biography, and philosophy), done not to be complex in design by not making poetry a third separate section. But poetry can at times be…
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A very beautiful, illuminating, and emotional concert; Patty Griffin played all of my favorite songs, and I’d just found the concert this morning when I’d thought to tag Patty Griffin in my ocean sketch I’d drawn from my own memory of the beach after I was inspired by her song, “Servant of Love,” and the…
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The Ocean Shore, from my pocket sketch-book, completed Feb. 3, 2023, a scene from memory, inspired by the song, “Servant of Love” by Patty Griffin, a scene that might have not appeared in this particular song but the song had moved me, reminded me of this view from my memory, and inspired me to draw.…
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🐱This groundhog does not do ‘tricks’ like show you a season out of his shadow, but if he wants to, he will, and then he will take your treat after. Today, I gave 4 books away because I’d wanted to 😊💕📚. It was not great though overall: windy, cold, and the wind kept blowing my…
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🐱Peeko shows you… It’s made such an improvement to move this chair in toward the room away from the back wall, tilt toward the bed with a view of the window. —🐱💕Peeko Yoga: The yoga night class was great. I first noticed the incense was very therapeutic with plenty of circulation in the room, along…
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To my surprise, it’s “Read Aloud Day” world-wide for anyone wanting to read a book or poem aloud. I am reading my favorite poem from Yeats’ poetry book that I’d mentioned I’d been practicing, reading it as a calming listen and to highlight how Yeats wrote sound into his poems, through rhymes and alliteration, in…
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that pen does not say Jane, but Jade 💕😊a treasured gift my husband Dan had given me I finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (pub. 1817) at the salon today! What a memorable moment with my history of reading it a decade or more ago and not continuing at the time, finding a free…
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For speakers or readers of French, in came this email from an author who has translated May Ziadeh’s book into French, the title is Tenebres et lueurs. The subtitle is Rêveries d’une promeneuse au Levant, by May Ziadé. This title translates as Darkness and Rays: Daydreams of a Stroller in the Levant (in literal English);…
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📙Poetry by Yeats
blush of dawn by Jade Nicole Beals
Blush of Dawn 