Tag: boston

• A Pocket Blank Page Journal: for Leaves and Flowers I May Discover and Press

  

  Set up with it all ready. Tea first, and then the little treasures I’d found (which are hidden in the photo for now.) Don’t worry; I am not drinking the glue. I bought this blank journal and it arrived yesterday, in which this morning I’ve placed flowers or leaves that I’d find and press in […]

  01/25/2023 9:39 am

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• Submitting My Paintings to the Boston Arts Museum and Writing My Novel

  

  🐱Peeko with my white jasmine flower art (not one I’d submitted) Today I entered a couple of my own original paintings into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition for Abstract Art. They could accept one or more to display at the Museum, and they would also be up for sale there during that time! […]

  01/23/2023 3:18 pm

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• A Poetry Reading: Four Recent Poems I Wrote and Read Aloud

  

  For relaxation and winding down before bed or anytime, or just to listen to poetry spoken, I have read aloud a few prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. You can listen to me read them, the links show the text of each poem, and the third I’d reread is a […]

  01/20/2023 1:32 pm

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• Author Artist Kahlil Gibran Celebrates a Birthday

  

  January 6, 2023 Well, I am going next weekend to celebrate Christmas with my family in New York. I was sick with COVID on Christmas, and so was my husband—he got it first and is over it, as for testing: I am not yet but almost fully healed! We will go bearing gifts, including a […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 pm

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• “Acknowledgment”

  “Acknowledgment” by Jade Nicole Beals (poem read) Because I wanted to surprise you with my contrast to the idea that not everyone you meet in the day wants to give you something—make you a cup of coffee, or tea with a teaspoon of fresh tea leaves, show you my art originals. I have a ton […]

  01/11/2023 6:03 am

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• Forgiveness by Patty Griffin, listening to a live performance

  I have been offline mostly continuing a few days. I’ve been listening to music today for the comfort and healing, on shuffle, and this singer came on first. I haven’t really listened to her closely in many years, and she was one of the first singer-songwriters I’d found and loved, and my favorite one for […]

  01/04/2023 8:01 pm

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• A Special Gift I’ve Given to Myself: My Rosary and Embroidered Pouch

  

  I knew this year when I visited the gift-shop at La Salette around Christmastime and was too sick to visit my family in Brooklyn, New York at the time, to be postponed, that we would wait to exchange gifts. I still knew of a gift I wanted to give myself this year… The first night […]

  01/02/2023 1:04 pm

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• Just Two More Things: A Secret Story to Gift and a Novel Read

  

  (This is my fortune cookie today, featured photo: I could have written it! You know 😅And maybe I did, indirectly, with “algorithms.”) I said I would go on my blog vacation, then I left on a sad note and with my original blog theme needing to be restored, and it is working fine now…that has […]

  12/20/2022 4:48 pm

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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 […]

  12/12/2022 6:57 pm

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• Mary Haskell, author, art patron, and school principal celebrates a Birthday Today

  

  “People are always longing for someone to help them realize their best selves,” – Mary Haskell (portrait drawn by artist Kahlil Gibran) Today is writer, art patron (b. in South Carolina, 1873) Boston school principal, Mary Haskell’s birthday…that is, the big 149 yrs! Can you handle it? (This is probably the most biased birthday greeting […]

  12/11/2022 7:02 pm

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• Happy Birthday, Britney! (A Literary and Art History and Present Day Post)

  My December 2nd post rewritten as you’ll read on… :): The last I remember, I was writing yesterday evening about the phrase a “New York minute” and expressing I would like to slow down, in my amended post to wish Britney a happy birthday from the post of December 2nd, and somehow half the night […]

  12/05/2022 12:53 pm

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• A Future Poetry Project: Verse

  First, I would like to slow down; I realize if I tell about something that the person listening cannot follow, and I often feel sorry to see others overwhelmed with the quickness and excitability of my telling, asking me to retell. I will practice this when I speak with the next person I talk to. […]

  11/23/2022 5:11 pm

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• Queen Elizabeth II and a Teatime Afternoon

  

  I’ve enjoyed this teacup for awhile, without knowing anything about the people specifically, but because my grandma in law, Arlene gave it to me, the one who lives in Massachusetts nearby, who’s married to my grandfather in law, Gerry. In a burst of great excitement moving through their dining room, she’d said to me; “You […]

  09/09/2022 2:32 pm

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• Peeko Creates His Own Retreat

  

  (photo found from yesterday; lighting a little brightened to match reality) Speaking of all my “pocket talk” with my pocket sketchbooks on the blog drawings of flowers and leaves out in the field: My cat Peeko added to his cat tower…and created his very own hammock! from beneath the seat of my chair, and it’s […]

  09/03/2022 2:32 pm

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• About The Flower

  I was happy to find the fluffy flower; I was also a little sad because the wind kept blowing its feathers and it was a very shady spot with little light and more than enough heat and humidity. I may go back to the spot today. I worked on my painting in progress and will […]

  09/01/2022 8:32 am

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• “Hold Me Closer” Britney Spears and Elton John’s New Song, Thrilled About Books in the Night, and My Mom Comes to Visit!

  Aug. 31, 2022 First, I am very pleased with the air at my apartment home as last week I professionally deep cleansed the fireplace we don’t use (and is off)…a real professional will come in time (inclusive), but it is wonderful what a difference it makes. It feels like a whole new landscape or planet […]

  08/31/2022 11:00 am

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• La Salette Shrine and Retreat Center: Talk…—and Sketch

  

  August 22, 2022 …And now it’s tomorrow, and I have two little true life stories to tell. But first, this is the setting where I am now as I tell them: I’ve just finished all of my green tea this morning from this little mug that I was going to rinse in the kitchen when […]

  08/22/2022 9:21 am

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• 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

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• The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, a Brief Book Reflection

  

  ‘A Portrait of Peeko with The Portrait of a Lady’ YouTube video featuring my cat Peeko: https://youtube.com/shorts/cajAJwnrpW8?feature=share * The Goodreads book group is still reading the novel, so I won’t go on too long (I’ll try), but I have completed reading The Portrait of a Lady (with Peeko especially affectionate toward it as never before […]

  08/17/2022 9:31 am

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• Morning Sketch from a Field Afternoon: treasures

  

  I drew this sketch this morning, with my morning tea, from a few first sketches I’d drawn yesterday—(it was still a heatwave, so I’d gone back in after a little while even with my water canteen.) I drew with pencil, eraser, and pocket-book in a little spot in nature where I could kneel beneath this […]

  08/17/2022 8:29 am

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• Two Photos from the Last Half of Last Night: IKEA Makes It

  

  …on the blog…with surprising beauty…and a whole new look too…Gives a less serious feel to my self, a retreat-like feeling in there and no silent meals either. The chocolate cake dessert tasted like they made a home—baked brownie fully, and then let it hang on its very own hammock in a very hot tropical rainforest […]

  08/12/2022 3:20 pm

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• Two Photos from Today’s First Half of the Day

  

  my new petite antique tea mug, blue forget-me-nots and lavender accents, maybe from 20th century Germany, and my handwritten papers of restorative things I may do. How the sky looked when I was just waking up; it was a momentary blush that really thrilled me enough. My latest poem I wrote today, and then another. […]

  08/12/2022 12:17 pm

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• Interlude

  

  —This tree is a blue spruce.

  08/04/2022 11:35 am

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• Wind-flown

  I learned a new word, I think it was wind-sewn; or maybe wind-sown?, or even wind-turned, and I am all windswept or windblown along with these flowers. I don’t know; I like them all anyway…the little red flowers and leaflets and versions of this word… As for the pieces of my novel in progress and […]

  08/01/2022 1:23 pm

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• “As If I Had Been the Harp Then and the Hidden Music”

  July 30, 2022 by Jade Nicole Beals —for Miss May Ziadeh hear this poem read: You were close to me last night in your compassion and cherishing of me; I felt the feather-soft way your fingers moved through my hair, the shape of your hands familiar and welcome… You placed your face close to mine […]

  07/30/2022 10:57 am

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• My Teacups on Display—Yoga with Monet…

  

  The second shelf center cup just arrived yesterday…it gleams so purely on display. I’d looked to find another antique-style cup after my favorite cup I accidentally dropped into the kitchen sink the other day and it broke in half, felt a deep tug of my heart when that happened ’cause I’d loved it, ‘tho no […]

  07/29/2022 9:10 am

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• Found with a Crown…and Renewing All My Tea Cups

  

  It is morning, 7 am, and meditative teatime is winding down now for me to share your photo for today, from the spontaneous series I’d created yesterday on my walk (in Massachusetts where I live.) This is picture #2: Found with a Crown. This little plant is growing brightly on mulch and in the shade, […]

  07/26/2022 7:34 am

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• I Was Trying to Paint a Room, but the Mood Came First

  

  🎨paint on hands, not so bad. My art in progress on table. The painting I’ve been working on is coming along at The Gallery, a Sunday of realizing I was trying to see this physical room I’d imagined, to paint it how it appeared, but today I found that starting with the mood and rich […]

  07/25/2022 12:21 pm

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• A Soothing Space

  

  My bedroom library retreat is complete. 😊 I took things away that felt crowded, then rearranged the things I had kept (and felt good being near) before adding anything new over time. Over the winter, I readjusted the bookcase myself with a hammer, screws, and a screw remover to heighten the shelves to look more […]

  07/21/2022 8:28 am

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• “A Chipmunk Welcomes Himself” and “Caught Redhanded”

  July 20, 2022 A Chipmunk Welcomes Himself Sometime a week or two ago, the building door where I live was left open for a quick construction project. I walked in and two neighbors walked in a little bit behind me, the young woman giggled as she noticed a chipmunk who wandered in too, just a […]

  07/20/2022 4:24 pm

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• “This Is…”

  July 5, 2022 This Is… Humidity. This is the red flower moon full of… This is an anonymous lady shouting out (while grilling me) “Don’t be sorry, honey!” [to a man with her] of me, after there was no altercation, but only kindly manners, as he’d come quickly around a hidden bend, jogging toward my […]

  07/05/2022 4:25 pm

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• “Friday Night Line of Wisdom”

  I am all out of wisdom I could tell you; I could almost lift off the floor in flight for that: let’s read books and comb our hair through and place coconut on our skin and calves, can apply a little to the eyelashes on a clear mascara brush too…Let’s paint, look through all of […]

  07/04/2022 10:39 am

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• “In the Deep, Unexpected Dark”

  May 18, 2022 In the Deep, Unexpected Dark —for May Ziadeh I cried my tears. I cried your tears on your behalf. I cried in the places where your tears melted and trickled towards mine. I felt your fears and my themes passing through me and on… I looked into your years, and wants, and […]

  07/04/2022 8:00 am

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• ‘Victorians’ Learning, Peeko’s Window Throne, and Calming Things

  

  *reading from a poem video now included* My cat Peeko was very impressed with the cover of this book Victorians as I learn a little with historical research, and I think I know which topic I’ll look for next, but I will browse the books next in person. (I’m in the ’collecting and gathering’ stage […]

  06/30/2022 9:36 am

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• A Picture of a Moment in My Life in Words

  We’d recently had the shower/bath tile wall re-grouted. The workers arrive and knock, I open the door, I am probably half their height as I say hi and welcome them in. They step inside to see a giant, fluffy gray cat running away into a back bedroom at top speed, gaining more speed gradually, tripping […]

  06/20/2022 5:22 pm

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• Cup of Green Tea and Crystal

  

  06/15/2022 5:31 pm

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• An Imagined Room and View, 2

  I sketched this view again, a scene from my imagination I’d shown, and this time I added to the subject and added colored pencils with the pastel (wasn’t a great blend of two mediums for me but I tried). Seeing this, I found a change to make to the subjects. I am finding my way […]

  06/13/2022 6:52 am

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