Tag: classical

• 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 […]

  06/12/2022 6:45 pm

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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 […]

  05/19/2022 12:04 pm

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• May 7th… Mother’s Day…Bedroom Retreat

  

  library corner this afternoon by the window This morning I was very excited to take out the newest flower that had been pressed for a month in a closed book on the shelf (without me intentionally looking; one day I opened the book to read and happened to see it; placed it back.) 🤫It’s a […]

  05/07/2022 8:07 pm

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• It’s Been A Little Quiet Here—Let’s Hear Some Music!

  

  March 12, 2022 *I know this may not be scientifically possible in terms of shuffle algorithms that I don’t know much about, but for this, think not science, but sentiment!!* 😊💕💗🎼😇😊* For fun! I’d created a music playlist for author and poet, May Ziadeh, music to share with her, not necessarily directly related to her […]

  03/12/2022 7:55 am

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• May Days 😉

  

  Jan. 19, 2022 My gaze was looking downward awhile, drinking a cup of tea, then singing, suddenly looked up: I sent the sky so many kisses; I didn’t count them…😊😘😘😊 * Our literary salon yesterday May Ziadeh hosting here was so diversified: music, meditation, comments, silent reading, and it closed with my latest painting. * […]

  01/19/2022 4:09 pm

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• 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

• Peeko’s “Troix Romances Without Words,” Wellness, and My Listenings

  

  I am off social media for a little time and ease into my projects with plenty of rest…there are post ideas piled up yet saved to come, a second post to the “What The Critics Said” series, autumn trees close to photoing, could be coming too, and more. I painted this morning and the painting […]

  10/15/2021 12:36 pm

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