Tag: food

• Vacation

  

  Peeko listening to a naptime story rest, sit, meditate, paint a little, walk. look at the sky, draw, notice scenery, sketch a scene, yoga stretch, continue to eat tangerines, tomatoes, drink green tea, make scrambled eggs with baby spinach, dinner meals. See how many cups of water I am actually drinking in the day, dawned […]

  01/12/2023 10:43 am

  art, beauty, creative process, creativity, food, fruits, fun, gifts, inspiring, love, lovingkindness, memoir, mindfulness, music, my photography, new york city, peeko, poetic, positivity, psychology, relaxation, rest, silence, uplifting, vacation, vacation time, water, wellness, wisdom

• A ‘Lost’ Recipe Found and Made for Dinner, Delicious

  

  (my photo) I am not an 👩‍🍳official chef, but I cook plenty, and I made this Armenian-Lebanese dinner tonight. I am happy with the creativity you can find in cooking and wanted to share some. I’d heard of this meal sometime ago on a list, a rare or forgotten Armenian-Lebanese dinner recipe…It involves lightly stir-fried […]

  12/08/2022 7:37 pm

  armenia, artists, creativity, dinner recipes, food, lebanon, lovingkindness, my photography, night, recipes, relaxation, therapeutic, wellness

• pocket verse: haiku and tanka

  Each are separate poems all written in the same couple of days —Jade Nicole Beals * 1 I’ve changed all the locks I still love you 2 my cat naps he snores like soft weeping my tears, but l don’t know our reason 3 the soft, plush vacuumed rug I notice so much more in […]

  11/17/2022 8:47 am

  beauty, dreams, food, free write, fruits, haiku, home, love poetry, massachusetts, morningtime, my poetry, narrative, nature, night, poetry, short verse, sky, tanka

• Happy Halloween

  I hadn’t dressed up this year, but I wore a new green top and blue pants from Pac Sun with medieval-like brown suede heeled ankle boots, not planning to be a “forest-ling” but I decided that when I was there, secretly. With my one year old niece who walks now, my sister in law, and […]

  10/31/2022 7:30 pm

  desserts, food, fun, holidays, massachusetts, memoir, memoir stories, uplifting

• :*

  

  (This was really meant to have no caption and is not explained in words, was not even about jewelry or gold, in reply to my accidental horror of captions I’d find in my new revisions :D, but I let it rest this way…:) Had you found this photo or post suspicious, and are you suspicious? […]

  10/16/2022 7:04 pm

  fashion, food, fruit, gratitude, heavenly, love, lovingkindness, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, poetic, poetry, prose poetry, romantic era, secrets, self-care, spirituality, uplifting, wellness

• Three Delicious Things

  

  😊😋 Jade

  10/05/2022 7:31 pm

  decor, food, my photography, photo series, silence, writing process

• A New Writing Project Idea, Genre! and a Recent Dream

  Well, I felt today my way through mixing up and shuffling and throwing posts off the blog for too long and realizing this should just be as it is now… I’d felt Miss May letting me see kindly, look, that is enough now, hands off the blog, it is a form of fidgeting, but better […]

  10/04/2022 5:29 pm

  art, childrens books, dreams, english literature, fiction, food, literary salon we keep, memoir, memoir stories, my dreams, my photography, night, novels, short stories, writing process

• Three Lessons and No Painting, Yet

  * Three Lessons I Learned Today with Art

  09/15/2022 12:06 pm

  art, creative process, dance, flowers, food, fun, love, marshmello, massachusetts, memoir, music, my photography, pop, pop music, uplifting, wellness

• 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

  boston, creative process, flowers, food, lovingkindness, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, nature, poetic, prose poetry

• Notice: & with a favorite poem, or three

  

  (morningtime feat. photo, my cat Peeko 🐱 who helps me at times to complete one thing at a time—here, he’s a teatime supervisor ☕️ (he’s just had his breakfast and his daily brushing), a poetry book 📙, and a music box 🎶; you’ll see.) Last night, around midnight Something feels wrong now without a subject, […]

  08/18/2022 9:01 am

  arabic, beauty, benevolence, english, farsi, food, love, lovingkindness, medieval era, memoir, morningtime, music, my photography, night, peeko, persian, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, rumi, spirituality, translations, wellness

• 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

  beauty, boston, food, fun, home, interior design, memoir stories, my photography, photo series, uplifting

• Champagne or Gold or a Buttercup from the Field

  

  June 4, 2022 I don’t care. Neither does Ed…Let’s dance. 💃🥂♥️♥️ Oh yeah, I had Ed Sheeran mis-tagged last post as ‘Australian’. I don’t know why…I don’t care either. 😂

  06/04/2022 7:37 pm

  australia, dance, ed sheeran, england, fairies, food, fun, garden, gratitude, love, lovingkindness, music, philosophy, poetic, pop, pop music, silence, soulmates, spirituality, uplifting, video, wellness, yoga

• Morning Tea in Honor of My Grandma on Her Birthday, New Flowers and Poetry

  

  *** Flowers found and brought home this weekend from local garden shop, purple pansies and white fragrant climbing blossoms scented with a little more honey than florally; I received care directions from the garden staff for this potted variety…I will find out the fragrant one’s name today, flowers in time for spring and my grandma’s […]

  04/04/2022 9:04 am

  20th century, 21st century, birthday, books, boston, brooklyn, catholic, english literature, food, garden, grandma jean, gratitude, italian, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, new england, novels, poetic, poetry, poets, reading, sky, sun, tea

• The Sun in My Cup, Draw What You See, A Morning of a Little Creativity

  

  There’s the sun in my cup of green-oolong tea…😊☕️This is a new one I’d tried and I am glad I remembered how much I love green-oolongs; this one’s called Ali Shan. I really like Ti Kuan Yin green-oolong and Golden Flower. I gave myself an assignment with my sketchbook—Pick something, place yourself somewhere (seated or […]

  03/14/2022 11:57 am

  21st century, art, art events, boston, creative process, fairies, fiction, food, gratitude, home, home design, inspiring, may ziadeh, meditate, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, my sketch, nature, poetic, poetry, poetry events, poetry forms, poetry reading, poets, sky, sun, villanelle, wellness, writing process, writing theory

• Pure Fun, New Moon, Writing Notebook

  

  Last night Monday…Peeko sitting in my chair with such pride. And he might show up at your job as your new Project Manager, you never know. Last week I could sum up with the line, Reason for Exhaustion: Writing sonnets all day. One Shakespearean. One Petrarchan: complex rhyme scheme sent me crashing by 4 pm. […]

  02/01/2022 2:24 pm

  20th century, 21st century, boston, creative process, edna st. vincent millay, english literature, fairies, food, gratitude, hedy habra, keith waldrop, library, literary salon we keep, may ziadeh, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, moon, morningtime, my photography, narrative, new moon, novels, peeko, poetic forms, poetry, poetry books, poetry forms, poetry three, poets, reading, sonnet, tea, virginia woolf, wellness, writing process

• Hear Edna St. Vincent Millay Read Her Own Poetry

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay in her private library upstairs at Steepletop, c. 1935 I didn’t even realize I could do that, until now! It was so incredible to suddenly hear Edna St. Vincent Millay reading her words aloud, a poet I’ve read and written of often, and I don’t even remember how I got to […]

  12/29/2021 10:17 pm

  20th century, audio, edna st. vincent millay, food, fruit, gratitude, maine, meditate, meditation, new york city, poetic, poetry, poetry forms, poetry reading, poets, sonnet, spirituality

• Merry Christmas!

  

  Peeko knew he was having his Christmas portrait taken and winked both times for the picture…and also covered up the Christmas wreath behind him twice as he wanted just himself front and center on the greeting! Peeko knows he’s an exceptionally fluffy, fine cat who is well-versed in literature and antique poetry and also enjoys […]

  12/24/2021 4:18 pm

  20th century, art, catholic, food, garden, gratitude, herbs, interior design, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, nature, peeko, poets, spirituality

• Three Rumis in a Row

  

  When I go to a bookstore, like Barnes and Noble, or the library, I may check on some of my favorite poets: I found two books by the Persian author Rumi, b. Sept. 30, 1207, d. Dec. 17, 1273, who I have come to find nurturing and protective feelings towards as a (younger) brother of […]

  12/19/2021 9:47 am

  21st century, books, english literature, food, fruit, full moon, gratitude, herbs, medieval era, memoir, memoir stories, moon, music, my photography, nature, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, reading, rumi, spirituality, turkey, wellness, yoga

• A New Painting in the Making

  (That you will hear of, not see in this particular post 🤫😊) I had forgotten to tell you, had only just hinted at…what my new leaf of choice to chew was: it’s parsley! 🌿😊And that discovery was such a relief and refreshment. I like chewing it more than basil and like the taste better for […]

  11/22/2021 7:08 pm

  21st century, art, creative process, food, garden, medieval era, memoir, memoir stories, nature, novels, peeko, poetic, poets, rumi, spirituality

• An Indelible Online Poetry Reading: Connection & Disconnection in The Ikea Age

  

  so much blush these evenings & more this morning with the moon too 😘🌕 I attended Indelible Evenings as a guest on Wed. 11/17/21, an online reading hosted in Dubai that goes along with Indelible magazine in which two of my poems from my third book in progress will be published. Roula Maria-Dib is the […]

  11/20/2021 9:32 am

  21st century, boston, dubai, england, english literature, fairies, food, gratitude, jane austen, japan, mab jones, moon, morning, omar sabbagh, poetry, poetry books, poetry reading, poets, reading, william shakespeare, yoga

• Your Sunday Picture Book

  

  Mid-morning after we woke, Peeko was napping contentedly on the bed at sunrise. Here he was lounging just across from my living room chair facing where I would sit a few moments before I did (and where he doesn’t usually sit) and I knelt to take this photo of him at eye level before I […]

  10/24/2021 5:12 pm

  angels, books, boston, catholic, english literature, faith, food, garden, memoir, memoir stories, morning, music, my photography, nature, peeko, philosophy, poetic, poets, reading, spirituality, tea

• Replenished

  

  letting my hair begin to dry in morning sun and atmosphere I find myself feeling replenished and my balance more restored with great help from God and others and myself in my gratitude, simplifying my project focus and goals beforehand, pure coconut oil left-in for hair and skin and aromatherapy (it’s a fruit😊), and a […]

  10/20/2021 11:08 am

  art, catholic, creative process, fairies, food, full moon, memoir, memoir stories, moon, morning, my photography, psychology, self portraits, sky, wellness

• And The Moon’s Shiny Tonight

  It’s the Moon! You know it. A song came on my shuffle today, think my own Christmas thought, save it in my mind for a future post, keeping my hands off the blog, and then quickly check social media late that night to see Britney Spears has posted a Christmas picture. 🎄 I take a […]

  10/16/2021 10:54 am

  food, memoir, memoir stories, moon, music, my photography, poetic, poets, tea, writing process, writing prompt

• What A Day Could Do, How Fun It Was…Continued

  

  I don’t feel so great, so I listen to my Party playlist on shuffle, without the party or the dancing, just an everyday stroll kind of walk. I use natural New York variable speed walking moves to avoid all people for consideration even though I pass none, and find an open field…where my back begins […]

  10/01/2021 4:45 pm

  angels, fairies, faith, food, garden, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, moon, new york, poetic, poets, rumi, sky, spirituality, sun, yoga

• The Missing Basil Leaf and Other True Tales of My Life

  

  2021 6:55 am today, Tuesday. Begonias As a dedicated student of nature, I noticed my begonias looking heavy and drooping. After a rainstorm with great wind, I was so happy to see them safe the next morning, and noticing the heavy looking stalks, I embraced them with a quick upward lift of my arms and […]

  09/28/2021 11:07 am

  20th century, 21st century, food, garden, home, literary salon we keep, mary shelley, memoir, memoir stories, morning, my photography, neil gaiman, novels, poets

• An Amazing Art Reading from Some Weeks Ago

  This video was recently posted, an art event and poetry reading I’d attended some time ago—I wasn’t reading my own work at this meeting or making any audible comments, but the camera will show my appreciation for the art, poems, and background stories shared. (If you notice, no it’s not a camera trick; I did […]

  09/25/2021 12:45 pm

  21st century, boston, egypt, food, ghazal, haibun, hedy habra, lebanon, michigan, poetry reading, poets, rumi, spanish, spirituality

• The Moon and Surprise Live Violin Music

  

  July 23, 2022: I heard a song that reminded me of this video and moment. I also heard that these are scams as they are not actually playing the music. I gave them my money; I would give it anyway. Why?—Because they played it for me and I loved it, I said. September 13, 2021: […]

  09/13/2021 1:23 pm

  boston, food, literary salon we keep, meditate, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, moon, music, my photography, poetic, sky

• The Lost Girl

  

  Good afternoon, I didn’t know if I would really go away. 😊But I did. And I am back now to tell you about a novel I’ve completed that I’d mentioned before I left, The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence, and I won’t spoil plot or suspense for readers. I’d just recently found the novel in […]

  09/05/2021 3:32 pm

  20th century, 21st century, book reflection, book review, boston, catholic, classics, d.h. lawrence, egypt, england, folk music, food, france, italy, lebanon, library, lisa hannigan, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, music, my photography, novels, philosophy, poets, reading, spirituality

• After Pistachio, A Silent Film

  

  I now present you with my silent film, in the moment written, directed & starred by me—‘After Pistachio.’ And you can mute it if you wish for extra peacefulness. 😊 🙏😊💗

  08/25/2021 6:23 pm

  20th century, angels, boston, catholic, faith, food, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, my silent movies, poets, spirituality

• You May Now Have a Strawberry and Hand-Picked Poetry

  

  6:32 pm: Tuesday’s note actually appears There it is, the strawberry I’d offered you that is now ripe and ready to eat; the plants are safely secured, not swinging in a possible storm, and it happens to have two other surprise strawberries with it to ripen later—Here, enjoy it! And this is my review I’d […]

  08/24/2021 6:32 pm

  20th century, 21st century, book reflection, book review, creative process, edna st. vincent millay, fairies, food, french, garden, memoir, memoir stories, moon, morning, my photography, new york, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, reading, writing process

• A Capricorn Moon upon Gibran

  

  Yesterday’s middle post, ‘Clouds and a Light Drizzle…’ linked at the end, has now been fixed to show featured image. I don’t think Gibran has had an actual moon on the blog, and unplanned by me the Lebanese Pitas were requested again, and I cooked the dinner again falling on the Capricorn moon of Gibran’s […]

  08/19/2021 6:45 pm

  art, boston, fairies, food, italy, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, memoir, memoir stories, moon, my photography, peeko, philosophy, psychology, spirituality

• It’s Tuesday: Get Your Coffee Cup

  

  Well, it’s Wednesday now…but it wasn’t yesterday, when I was writing this. 😊 Today is Tuesday and I realize it would’ve been the day of May Ziadeh’s literary salon in Cairo which began in 1912. The sky was blushing this morning a moment after I woke as you can see in the first photo and […]

  08/18/2021 8:03 am

  20th century, 21st century, catholic, egypt, faith, food, garden, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, middle east, moon, morning, my mystical experiences, my photography, philosophy, poetry, poetry books, poets, reading, sky, spirituality

• A Morning So New

  Here in my new spot to sit with tea in the living room on a morning with sun—tilt the chair beside the window, set down the cup upon the tea towel on the side table and be in the light. It’s a very sleepy morning, but a beautiful one anyway. The sky, how it looked […]

  08/13/2021 8:19 pm

  art, fairies, food, garden, handwritten, memoir, memoir stories, morning, my photography, not my door series, peeko, poetry, poets, self portraits, sky, spirituality, tea, writing process

• A Very Good Secret

  

  I found a garden, but it was a secret. 🤫😊🗝 ‘You see this pine tree so ‘small in stature’ that I can almost reach its top? It’s pitiful isn’t it, Bibtee?’ ☺️🧚‍♂️ 💙 * * * I cooked this dinner tonight…a recipe had appeared right up top as I was pressing publish on my ‘toppled […]

  08/12/2021 7:09 pm

  20th century, catholic, celtic, faith, food, garden, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, spirituality

• I’ve Failed in My Nature Studies But I Don’t Give Up

  

  My new basil plant. The first one I’d gotten early this summer toppled over as soon as I’d unwrapped it. This new one was bright green and standing tall on Monday when I happily unwrapped it at home, watered it with cool water, and it collapsed instantly. (Heard it was temperature shock.) This morning I […]

  08/05/2021 3:43 pm

  20th century, 21st century, catholic, fairies, food, medieval era, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, nature, poetry books, poets, reading, spirituality

• Blush and Plenty of It

  

  The sky was azure blue when I woke and I said good morning. I sometimes practice saying ‘May’, with emphasis on the y accent for fun as I can spell a word now in a new language, her name: مي. She painted the sky just then with plenty of blush (I know in heaven a […]

  08/03/2021 8:06 pm

  20th century, angels, arabic, art, catholic, creative process, edna st. vincent millay, food, Kahlil gibran, may ziadeh, memoir, morning, my photography, novels, poets, sky, spirituality, writing process, yoga

• My Poems, A Budding Playlist, and a Very Practical Thing

  July 28, 2021 The eighteen poems I’d written since April I’ve found complete as of last night, as I write more for my next book of poetry. (Nov. 2022—In time, many would be truly ‘starting ideas,’ not finding a kind of truth to share in poetry, but I’d have a memory of lines and a […]

  07/28/2021 8:03 pm

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