Tag: books
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Wellness, Water Hydration, My First Novel, First Week of Full Focus
*The water intake change has really made me feel sufficiently well (the most normal I’ve felt) and not impulsive: I was just drinking water all the time thinking more must be better, but that was very likely washing away medicine and so less effective. While not staying thirsty, I am gradually drinking about 9 cups […]
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Lounging in My Library, Listening to the Rain…
—A butterscotch creme brulee hair tie. Happy New Year! —💕Jade
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A Handmade Gift: Poetry and Preserved Flowers for May Ziadeh
(in the Christmas morning sun) complete Dec. 24th Christmas Eve 2022 I wrote the poem originally by hand on paper at the end of May 2021 on that month’s Full Flower Moon. The poem was published in March 2022 in Indelible’s The Feminine, and I’d read it live on video. I’d been collecting flowers and […]
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A Poem from Long Ago Set to Music and Sung
my teddybears just held hands like that 🙂 on the bookshelf right side zoom in. And this teddybear Peeko 🧸🐱is napping on this blanket but also feels sad when his Mama is not feeling well and sleeping the day and night. 💕 See his puffy pouty kitten face as I say I love him. He […]
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Long Car Ride, I Am Reading Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
😊💓and I don’t even know the year of publication yet of this book! On the way to Western MA, to a railway. 😊🎄🚃 After I threw all my books off the shelf gently and arranged them, I picked a reread and I am reading Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men. I loved her Little Women book […]
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All New Bookshelf as I Build My Own Home Library
🎂Happy 247th birthday Jane Austen! Dramatic shelf height last yr, now all new arrangement, with a few additions I will tell about as I read (of those three, I’ve read Jane Eyre and Song of Solomon). You may know I am forming my home paper book library. Previous photo showed the before; now the shelf […]
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Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
(my own photo) The most moving novel I’ve read this year, and the most recent one I’ve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977) had been a favorite of mine around the year 2004, and somehow I could not remember anything about it at all but that I had read it and […]
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3 Things to Do Today in Balance
…feat. photo: for a future project, this Jane Eyre I was given, with the gold stain. The idea: Write a “found poem,” but I will not cut out or glue any words from the actual book, just look through it and arrange the words I will write on my own paper. 🙂 After a needed […]
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A Book of Essays on My Bookshelf for Years Unread—Read Today
Reading Collected Essays by George Orwell, a book I’ve had on my shelf for many years, it was a gift from my sister one year, that I’d not wanted to read each time I’d picked it up over many years, but also did not give it away, it had felt like ‘for another time’, and […]
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1…2….3…4! Literary Salons Today, Tuesday
November 29, 2022 …And this cat is ready for nighttime relaxation; he picks and chooses where and what he will attend and what he will read…at home…We await his full results from the vet to receive this week; he seems contented and eating well. *** A Tip For Book Lovers who Like Baths: If you […]
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Classics Cat, Painted Jane Eyre, with Music by Justin Bieber
…this literary scholar and fine art collector cat smiles at the Readers… —😽😎🐱Peeko 🎶🎶… and becomes a very plush, emotional cat as he loves when I am reading a many-paged classic novel, and he may like it himself for me to be reading, if he would pick, he loves relaxation, and when I am relaxing […]
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Re: Deleted Posts, Dear Reader
I was reading after dark last night by my library window, lamplight, I started with this nursery rhyme of my own… ‘I sit quietly in this chair, I will comb through my hair, and I will read Jane Eyre.’ I am sorry for these pretty hastily deleted posts; I remind myself writing is free, and in […]
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Where?
I am seeing time moving forward in days, weeks, and months, rather than as a single day with few hours, so I just keep writing my novel as much as I would like to each week, and time continues replenishing on its own… That leaves me at 2928 words to rest the whole weekend, a […]
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My First Novel in Progress, Finding the Genre and Audience: YA Fantasy, and On ‘Point of View’
November 15, 2022, night I feel like I have more info now that my story completed could fit into the popular Fantasy genre for Young Adults. I wrote about 200 words tonight typed, and I am going to rest awhile at 2328 words total. 🙂 I read my typed draft, then I wrote at the […]
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A List of Art and Writing, Plans, Dreams, and Hopes while Currently Sitting
* I hope my hair will continue to grow a little longer; I am mindful of the ends now, and gentle detangling, comb and brush. * I am content sitting now, my feet don’t touch the floor but freely I swing them up, can stretch and flex them well like this, posture is great with […]
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So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts
Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing […]
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Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi
Featured Poetry I’ve just read through this week this very new, just released poetry collection Quarantine Highway by Millicent Borges Accardi, a Portuguese-American poet living in California. I recommend this poetry book to anyone who enjoys a poetry style that feels almost to be part on the page and partly recited, with poems that approach […]
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Bringing Calm with Arranging Books with Honeybear…A Milk and Honey Moisturizer
November 2, 2022 My books were greatly out of order, book 2 showing before book 1 of a series, poetry, non-fiction, novel in a row…But I found that a little fun. I wanted to bring some calm and beauty and simplicity to the bookcase and my mind this afternoon…I also spaced the books a little […]
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Someplace Else Away
oh, this bird stopped by yesterday 🙂 I could call this a retreat but I am honest it is in a way but it seems that many people close to me find me overwhelming, doing wasteful things, or just annoying in general, Miss May seems to welcome me fully; we have plenty to laugh about […]