Tag: catholic
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My Library as of Tonight, A Trip to Find My Holy Bible
Saturday, January 28, 2023 my home library as of now…with some new books I’d gotten to read. and some lit magazines I’d had 🙂 decorative accents added: my silver pen with name engraved and amethyst and a pink blush little laughing buddha I looked for it on my shelf in real life: where’s the solid […]
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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 […]
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May Ziadeh, a Biography by Jade Nicole Beals
July 21, 2022 (completed Jan. 2023) featured photo, Miss May A biography I wrote about the author, May Ziadeh, an author I’ve written of often on the blog, with biographical facts, and immersive writings in my own experiences beginning in May 2021. At the end, a summary and reflection of the book My Life With […]
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Peeko’s Paws Pressed Together, a Prayerful Expression with Compassion for a Fellow Rhyme-Loving Cat across the Country
Peeko loves praying with me, and he was interested in the rosary prayer today as he napped. Peeko has been rested now in a more private, less time on camera living, as one of my new year’s resolutions is to take fewer photos of Peeko, as he prefers more time relaxed in the moment. He […]
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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 […]
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New Year’s Night: Prayer Candles Lighting Up All through the Week
I got to see the candles at La Salette shrine lit with my messages this time. I found the side wall with a written paper in the Chapel of Light is where they print the dedications.I lit these candles for the full week, including the message I wrote for my grandma with her full name, […]
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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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Angel
December 23, 2022 It is a great storm of rain and winds, and I am resting fully, often sleeping, being healed gradually, with a calm, glowing expression I feel, ‘though little voice. And then the sun brightens, so brightly, I let my eyes open; it is so luxurious. It does not look like I will […]
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Compassion
my Care Cat gazing at me as I was napping & feeling unwell Update: I just woke and my breathing is all normal now! I slept for a long time…as for books, I woke with a bookmark in my bed with me but no book❔😊📚🧚: I must have fallen asleep before I got one to […]
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In the Midst of Christmas Lights
🎄Christmas lights are set up at La Salette in Massachusetts.✨✨The whole place is decorated this way and with art made by hand; it is beautiful to walk through at night, and the display returns each year.🎄✨💕It’s the kind of place you can go to again in a season and appreciate different things you may have […]
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Before all the Layers…
…Woke up! and got ready for La Salette! This is the local shrine I had sketched at over the summer. 🧚✨ * after I hope to go back again to La Salette another night before Christmas. I would like to look inside the gift shop. I accidentally stepped on a ketchup packet at the cafeteria […]
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My Books
November 12, 2022 I arranged them nicely and now I actually wish to read a book when I go in. And I have 2 books I gifted to myself on the way, soon…:) 💕Jade P.S. Oops 🙂 I have a couple of things to fix…The angel has no bookend next to her on one side […]
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A Teacup for Me, A Notebook Seen and Soon to Write
I’d learned a lot about antiques, spec. teacups these months, and what to look for…I had a few small mistakes and I wanted just one more… This one showed up on Etsy and I thought, “That looks like a teacup just for me.” It has no cracks, which is necessary to check if you want […]
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Morningtime My New Place to Pray, to be Shown
I sit bedside to pray on my cushion this Sunday morning; it’s I love you if you want it transcribed; the rest, a caress of my body and mind. Jade
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A Debut Fantasy Novel, All Saints Day, Writers’ Retreat
photo from bookshop November 1, 2022 A new fantasy novel I’d found with a second book in the series to come this month. * It is All Saints Day, and this holiday has a very special meaning. 🙂 🙂 Miss May says from the song we listened to…“But you are the angel in person.” 🙂 […]
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It Was Sweet, It All Renewed Me, Pt. 2
Everyone has trials, but not everyone has these, and coming through them, I am not afraid at all to be deep; it is necessary…You hear my deep thoughts and you believe in me; you see me floating on the water and you know I am not drowning us…You smile often, my face is warmer because […]
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This Mysterious Gift
a soft gold glimmer in the lamplight, night from July 21, 2021 I’ve revised this this morning 🙂 Tuesday, Oct. 11th, and I got so into this when I was done, I accidentally set two teaspoons of tea in the teapot (Now, heaven may not physically drink a cup of tea from earth :)…Set it […]
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“A Wish in a Spiral”
It is not the heat of high summer, It’s the morning dropping cool so soon, and she has me see what’s sweet, feel sweet and fun… My heart’s spinning fast and warm again like a little music box that’s just been spun, my eyes and lashes, my nose, and the tiny teardrop shape just above […]
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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 […]
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The Mansion Where May Ziadeh Lived and Her Refrain I’d Heard in My Heart Answered
November 26, 2021 (up to date: September 9, 2022) This is the Ziade Palace where poet and author May Ziadeh lived (b. 11 Feb 1886, d. 17 Oct. 1941) in Lebanon. The green gate lead up to the upper floor of the palace and it was said May had lived on the first floor with […]
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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 […]
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Good Morning! : Miss May’s Flower Art
I completed this flower art today I’d made for author and poet, Miss May Ziadeh. I’d collected flowers over the seasons, a couple fallen onto my path outside, and pressed them in a book for her… and then I’d made her a celebration memorium at my home where I’d read Miss May (as she was […]
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From the Prose Poetry of Miss May Ziadeh, Chapter “Intimate Pages”
I have an idea for the blog to share my own little lines of literary critique of May’s writings (besides my book review of her poetry book, Fleurs de Reve Flowers of a Dream, 1911), the kind of attentiveness she valued in her own reviews and critiques, ’tho would’ve rarely in her time and place […]
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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 […]
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From Songs for Strangers and Pilgrims, Sealed, Signed, Love, Christina Rossetti
by Christina Rossetti … 19th century English poet Christina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830 in London, United Kingdom, the youngest of the four Rossetti children. Her father was the poet, Gabriel Rossetti, an Italian exile, and her mother was Frances (Polidori) Rossetti, a British scholar who was sister of the friend and physician […]
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What Grew There, Part 2
My mind told me I must’ve been mistaken of the spot, and I’d then realized the position of the sun is a more reliable indicator, time of day, and also the shape of the trunk of the trees and the branches not just shape of leaves; I am a continuing student of nature. This, too, […]
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Stepping Into a Novel Set in 1000 AD Like I’m In It Already
June 13, 2022 A beautifully unfolding novel I find myself at ease in the place and am amused to find myself sharing so many interests with the characters in this historical novel (set in Scotland about 1000 years earlier than our current time): Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King. I share with the characters interests […]
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Peeko’s Fiction Pick and Photo Shoot
photos Jun 11, ’22 evening I am reading at a slow, meditative pace the novel, Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King set in Scotland in 1000 AD. I hadn’t seen many historical fiction novels set at this time or place. My cat Peeko (shown above) does no tricks; he poses his own way in these. […]
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With My Hands: Flowers Found, Pressed, and Preserved, and A Little Ink Design from My Pen
this had been a great work in progress. This was just first stage, it’s complete. That is my reflection appearing in glass and this art is now up to date. Little changes made by clarifying the text in black ink, clear glue, background white, card pasted onto it with the little gathered pressed flowers, this […]
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Capricious by May Ziadeh
A poem written by May Ziadeh under her pen-name I. Copia from her first book of poetry, Flowers of a Dream, Fleurs de Reve (1911), translated by me from the French into English. When I’d come upon this book of poetry of hers online by surprise last May, I’d decided to read just one poem before bed and […]
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“Without Question”
roses, high noon (a quatrain) I used to fear the night, but ’round your head, there was a glow. I liked it better than the sun, It was love, I was yet to know. —Jade
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A Song for the Day and Night: Perfect by Ed Sheeran feat. Andrea Bocelli
the moon at dawn Beginning the day with song, attuned to love, listening, maybe a little singing… 💕💖🌴🎼✨💃💗🎼🌴💖💕 I love all the lyrics as well, especially how the song gradually winds into full Italian singing, as if on a little gondola gliding over the water with the mandolin sounds and all the music… * Yesterday’s […]
Blush of Dawn 