Tag: beach

• Islay

  

  “Islay.” graphite pencils on paper in pocketbook, by Jade Nicole Beals, Scotland, Sept. 30, 2022.

  09/30/2022 2:12 pm

  art, beach, my drawings, relaxation, scotland, sea, silence

• New Fantasy Novel Found at the Bookshop, A New Poem Sent In, The Fun of a Giveaway I Had Not Won

  

  This is the new book I found Uprooted by Naomi Novik at the bookshop last time, by an author of our time, fantasy genre. I picked it based on the cover first and then the line on the cover: ‘enjoyable fantasy with the air of a modern classic.’ I am currently reading the book (Aug. […]

  08/17/2022 2:28 pm

  beach, books, boston, creative process, english education, english literature, fairies, fantasy, fun, home, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, mythology, novels, poetry, tea, teatime, writing process

• An Intoxicating Book, A Bird Tries to Break into My Window, and More Recent Life Stories

  

  this flower was scented like strawberry and sugarcane 📰📻📚🌸 Intoxicated by A Book and Some Flowers I’d found a book recently called The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand, and I noticed before I read the book that it was scented so beautifully like the beach by the sea and a sweetly potent suntan fragrance…I breathed […]

  06/08/2022 7:08 am

  16th century, 21st century, beach, books, boston, edgar allen poe, edna st. vincent millay, england, english literature, fairies, fiction, fun, garden, greece, home, library, literary salon we keep, longing, love, medieval era, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, narrative, nature, night, novels, peeko, plays, poetic, poetry, poets, reading, rumi, sadness, scotland, sea, susan fraser king, tea, uplifting, william shakespeare, yoga

• The Gift by H.D.

  The Gift —by H.D. (born 1886, Pennsylvania) Instead of pearls—a wrought clasp— a bracelet—will you accept this? You know the script— you will start, wonder: what is left, what phrase after last night? This: The world is yet unspoiled for you, you wait, expectant— you are like the children who haunt your own steps for […]

  05/31/2022 11:20 am

  20th century, beach, beauty, english literature, garden, inspiring, literary salon we keep, love, missouri, modernism, pennsylvania, philosophy, poetry, poets

• Books and Art: Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi, Kahlil Gibran Scare, and My Creative Plan for the Day

  

  I do this too…(I liked finding this illustrated at The Boston Fine Arts Museum, my own photo of this artwork I saw there)…with my silver aluminum water canteen and poetry book, and a rock to sit on. Friday, May 27th, 2022 Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi I think I’d really confused and worked […]

  05/28/2022 7:24 am

  17th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, abstract expressionism, arab renaissance, art, art museum, artists, azima melita kolin, beach, books, boston, bruce degen, childrens books, classics, creative process, egypt, english, english literature, french, garden, home, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, library, longing, love, may ziadeh, medieval era, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, music, my photography, narrative, nature, new york city, novels, ocean, philosophy, poems of may ziadeh, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, psychology, reading, rumi, sketch, soulmates, spirituality, tea, wellness, yoga

• Many a Thing…(A Trip to the Antiques Shop)

  

  Tues. Apr. 12, 2022 photo from Tues., Apr. 5th—“Pants by Peeko 🐱,” a perfectly good hemming this time, Peeko helping on his own when I got the pants ready (just ‘loungewear’, shown in previous post.) He was proud of both the task and his own joke: sitting like this holding the pants in place and […]

  04/15/2022 8:56 am

  19th century, 20th century, ameen rihani, antique shop, antiques shop, art, art history, beach, book reflection, book review, books, boston, childhood, dance, dreams, egypt, england, english, english literature, free writing, fruit, fruits, garden, gratitude, herbs, home, interior design, j.r.r. tolkien, Kahlil gibran, kansas, lebanon, literary salon we keep, literary theory, longfellow, may ziadeh, meditate, memoir, memoir stories, missouri, morningtime, my mystical experiences, my photography, narrative, nature, new york city, novels, peeko, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, prose poetry, psychology, reading, tea, wellness, writing process, writing theory

• Mornings at the Sea

  

  “Mornings at the Sea“ Jade Nicole Beals Happily SOLD. Jan. 17, 2022 12 W” x 9” H

  01/17/2022 3:57 pm

  abstract, abstract expressionism, beach, gratitude, morningtime, my art, ocean, sky, sun

• 7!

  

  a recent photo luxuriously flaunting his longness… Peeko knew it was his birthday today as soon as dawn’s waking, he ran! into the bedroom (instead of walking) as I was awakening and looked up at me with great attention and excitement, and with a hint of baby sweetness, and then he leapt onto the new […]

  11/08/2021 7:03 pm

  20th century, arabic, art, beach, boston, brooklyn, classical, classical music, creative process, edna st. vincent millay, home, memoir, memoir stories, moon, morning, music, my photography, my sister, narrative, new york city, ocean, peeko, poets, sky, tea, writing process

• A Sweet, Refreshing Beginning…

  

  The literary salon begins with some blush… Yesterday afternoon, ‘Rumi’ black tea in a glass with a splash of almond milk. Autumn begins tomorrow…🍂😊 I send you my morning wishes and return to the salon with a cup of green tea and glimpsing the sky between sips as its colors lighten and merge… * Today […]

  09/21/2021 8:10 am

  19th century, 20th century, 21st century, beach, boston, catholic, egypt, french, literary salon we keep, may ziadeh, melody gardot, memoir, memoir stories, morning, music, my photography, ocean, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poetry by may ziadeh, poets, rumi, sky, spirituality, tea, writings by may ziadeh

• In 2021, I Just Happened to Find a Dance to Take Us into 1921

  

  Grandma Shirley knew about this free dance gathering with a band, including especially good Swing music, and as she’d practiced ballroom and line dancing before and I hadn’t, I asked her if she wanted to dance to this song. I don’t have dance lesson experience or knew the dances they were doing but it wasn’t […]

  08/30/2021 10:58 am

  20th century, 21st century, beach, boston, dance, edna st. vincent millay, egypt, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, music, new york city, novels, poets, reading

• Good Morning, As If Still With The Sea Wind

  

  A photo of mine taken last night at Nantasket beach, MA I woke with almost-curls in my hair from the breeze of the sea smoothed in sleep and I am calm and wild in one. There was music on the beach again, some lyrics like ‘Is she a Capricorn? Maybe she’s a Virgo…’ I thought […]

  07/17/2021 8:33 am

  beach, memoir, memoir stories, morning, music, my photography, poetic, poetry

• A Smile on a Monday

  

  I had a title for a post last night but sleep took it from me and gave me dreams rich and deep. * What are you doing today? I completed a bigger sketch for my next painting in one of my paper pads the other day and also found a new figment there. My cat […]

  07/12/2021 12:24 pm

  beach, creative process, lisa hannigan, music, my photography, peeko, poetic, writing process

• ‘Meet Me Where The Water Meets The Sky’

  

  Mattappoiset, MA Where the birds soar high and dip down low and rise again beyond the little stream winding how a stream should wind; I think I might step myself within that green and wander as I should have been… —Jade * Post title is a lyric from the song ‘Deeper’ by Tara MacLean * […]

  07/12/2021 6:16 am

  beach, my photography, poetic, poetry

• Tuesday At The Literary Salon, May’s House

  Were they drinking rose syrup in their coffee at those literary gatherings, maybe in Egypt, or was it a choice between rose syrup and coffee? Well, this is a question I wondered and typed into the search. I think some people might have chosen coffee and maybe put rose syrup in theirs too. It is […]

  06/22/2021 9:33 pm

  20th century, beach, may ziadeh, ocean, philosophy, poetic, poets, spirituality

• Inspired and Inspiring

  

  May 10, 2021 Asian history, art, poetry, and tea, continue as we celebrate Asian Heritage Month. I have written about Kahlil Gibran, had read his poem aloud, “The Astronomer.” Maybe less known is a woman poet who inspired him and they became close through the letters they wrote each other even though they had not met in […]

  05/10/2021 12:38 pm

  20th century, artists, beach, egypt, french, gratitude, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, may ziadeh, poetry, poetry books, poets, sky

• A Beach, A Girl, And A Little Girl, Pt. 2

  Hull, MA at sunset, I took this picture this past summer I have been thinking about the beach this weekend. I had recently written a post titled, “A Beach, A Girl, And A Little Girl” and more came to me yesterday that I’d like to write. I was trying to remember what Danielle liked to […]

  01/31/2021 1:42 pm

  beach, childhood, memoir stories, my photography

• A Beach, A Girl, and A Little Girl

  I took this photo at Cape Cod this past fall 2020 I often walked alone beside the ocean at this beach in New York, thinking, dreaming, picking up shells and shiny rocks, and gazing at the waves. I also spent time with some friends there my sister and I knew from school. Sadly, they weren’t […]

  01/16/2021 3:22 pm

  beach, childhood, memoir stories, my photography

• A Dream With A Question About Water

  photo I took July 2018  Hull, Massachusetts summer following the publication of my book Moonflower In a recent dream I had, this question about water was asked to me. There was no voice or person seen in the dream, just the question:   Which bodies of water are your favorite? While still dreaming, I immediately […]

  11/19/2020 1:28 am

  beach, my dreams, my photography

• A Plate That Holds Half A Ring

  I love memorable things. I love meaningful objects that remind me of someone, maybe they gave it to me, or someone else gave it to me after they had passed away, or even just something I had seen on my own and found beautiful, whether I bought it from a store or found it on […]

  10/25/2020 10:16 pm

  beach, childhood, memoir stories, my mystical experiences, my photography