Tag: fun

• Wednesday

  

  They forgot the harp, but I played the music anyway…:)

  09/28/2022 5:13 pm

  fun, music, my photography, self portraits

• A Self-Portrait & Writing by Hand

  

  Updates throughout, covers through Friday :D. Wednesday, and Virginia Woolf served so many cups of tea written into the short story collection Monday or Tuesday that there’s no desire left for another cup of tea for me today. From that particular set of stories, I really liked “The String Quartet” and “Kew Gardens.” Yesterday I […]

  09/28/2022 12:26 pm

  art, decor, fun, memoir stories, my photography, secrets, self portraits, short stories, tea, virginia woolf, writers, writing process

• Drawing and Portraits, What Artists Might Like to Draw with

  I love to paint, and I also found that I love to sketch on the go, and draw. Drawing, sketching, and painting all enhance each other and develop different artist skills, while each creates a different artwork or result. I drew May Ziadeh with pencil in my pocket sketchbook…I loved to do that, and I […]

  09/25/2022 8:57 am

  art, artists, creative process, drawing, fun, Kahlil gibran, may ziadeh, portraits, uplifting, wellness

• New England Garden: Dahlia Day and Fairy Forest

  

  It was Dahlia Day at the garden my husband Dan and I went to for the day. This New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is in North Western MA. It is nice too that libraries around MA offer passes that discount the admission price greatly, and one pass covers two people for the day. […]

  09/18/2022 11:08 am

  art, fairies, flowers, fun, garden, massachusetts, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, my sketch, nature, poetic, relaxation

• Four Things About My Life Today

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  09/17/2022 4:44 pm

  art, fun, garden, massachusetts, memoir stories, peeko

• Three Lessons and No Painting, Yet

  * Three Lessons I Learned Today with Art

  09/15/2022 4:47 pm

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

• Nature Plays The Same Notes

  

  After I completed my painting the previous night, this afternoon, Friday, I went out for a celebratory walk in the bright sun. I found nature playing the same notes, blossoming with the colors that inspired my latest painting from imagination: Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window. In my art, the mood felt […]

  09/10/2022 8:27 am

  art, beauty, flowers, full moon, fun, heavenly, home, lovingkindness, massachusetts, memoir, memoir stories, moon, my photography, narrative, nature, poetic, poetry books, uplifting

• Poetry Books: Goldenrod and The Book of Love, and More

  

  The title poem of Goldenrod by Maggie Smith reminds me of my time as a very novice student of nature last year. And I’m not purposely or only picking gold-colored things for the blog :), but I won’t outright deny a gold-colored thing for variety either. My brief reflection of the book: Goldenrod by Maggie Smith (2021): […]

  09/07/2022 6:38 pm

  21st century, art, book reflection, book review, creativity, fashion, free verse, fun, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, medieval era, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, night, ohio, philosophy, poetry, poetry books, poets, rumi, uplifting

• “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

  art, books, boston, fantasy, fashion, flowers, fun, home, library, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, monet, morningtime, music, novels, pop music, wellness

• A Paintbrush and a Novel

  I will begin writing my first novel and painting for my next art show I’d like to have, so the blog pace will slow (of course it needs to ;), but the site will be open, about painting and my novel in progress, and more. I will tell you one thing about the novel right […]

  08/30/2022 8:31 pm

  art, creative process, dreams, fantasy, fictional, fun, memoir, my dreams, uplifting, writing process

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

  

  …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 I noticed how […]

  08/22/2022 9:21 am

  art, beauty, books, boston, catholic, fairies, fun, garden, gratitude, heavenly, home, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, my sketch, nature, peeko, philosophy, self portraits, spirituality, teatime, uplifting, video, virtue, wellness

• From My Biggest Sketchbook: Presenting…Peeko

  

  He was so pleasantly surprised when I began to sketch him tonight! His mouth slightly opened and he bowed his head too, smiling the whole time, and winked at me dramatically a few times too. (Live) in the moment, no photo—Peeko. Aug. 19, ‘22 Now I will go! and continue using those index cards I […]

  08/19/2022 7:51 pm

  art, fun, love, lovingkindness, memoir, memoir stories, my sketch, peeko, uplifting

• 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

  beach, books, boston, creative process, english education, english literature, fairies, fantasy, fun, home, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, mythology, novels, poetry, tea, teatime, writing process

• May Ziadeh in MainGate Magazine, a short biography with titles of speeches she gave—and her poetry

  

  My poet friend Hagop Kazazian sent me this article in a magazine from recent times: End Note Comments by me: —I wonder what she said about Columbus discovering America in her first speech at this college; I’d mention him myself often mostly metaphorically… —I believe her brother mentioned here died as a young child and […]

  08/17/2022 2:27 pm

  ameen rihani, arabic, egypt, free verse, french, fun, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, letters, may ziadeh, new york city, philosophy, poetry, poetry by may ziadeh, poets, prose poetry, translations, uplifting, writings by may ziadeh

• 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

• Vacation Ends Early: A Lesson from a Teacup and a Wild Flower

  

  I picked a vacation week but it will do better next time as I take the start of it more seriously, and I have ended this one a day early; tagging posts, “vacation time” missed the point, along with shuffling ‘round and ‘round every thing of mine online…At one point, my phone fully died at […]

  08/08/2022 7:29 pm

  antique, creative writing prompt, fun, garden, herbs, memoir, memoir stories, mindfulness, my memoir stories, my photography, narrative, peeko, plays, poets, rumi, tea, teatime

• …Storybook Yoga with Monet

  

  (Monet and his paintings, 1923, colorized, credit: openculture) After awhile of living and painting many garden lily pond scenes outside his home in France, the artist Claude Monet became enthralled with the ocean. He wanted to paint it as he saw it and would get as close to it as possible with his paintbrush and […]

  07/29/2022 9:24 am

  art history, artists, france, fun, leaving space, monet, narrative, non-fiction, nonfiction books, ocean, philosophy, poetic, taking flight, vacation time, yoga

• Peeko Writes A Prose Poem…

  

  After seeing this on my laptop no one else here, I had to spend awhile asking other ppl and looking into how Mac laptops work to find out how this could have even been possible…😳😆⌨️ I took this picture of Peeko yesterday—for pure fun, I’d opened a new blank (TextEdit) document file for him (no […]

  07/27/2022 4:37 pm

  fun, literary salon we keep, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, nonfiction books, peeko, prose poetry, scotland

• 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

  boston, friendship, fun, home, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, meditation, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, philosophy, spirituality, tea, teatime, uplifting

• 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 […]

  07/25/2022 8:00 pm

  20th century, arab renaissance, catholic, english, english literature, france, french, fun, garden, gratitude, lebanon, letters, may ziadeh, meditate, meditation, moon, morningtime, my photography, nature, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, prose poetry, romantic era, sky, spirituality, sun, writings by may ziadeh

• A New Start

  It’s 5:04 pm…I begin… * The living-room this morning was a sunlight-theater…I started reading again, wishing to continue the book; Peeko winked at me when I held it up. I think he may like the picture on the cover. *** and I am still beginning 📰😊💕

  07/22/2022 1:31 pm

  english literature, fun, henry james, memoir stories, morning, novels, peeko, uplifting

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

  July 20, 2022 (revised July 29th) 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 […]

  07/20/2022 4:24 pm

  antique, bath, books, boston, fiction, fun, home, memoir, memoir stories, narrative, nonfiction books, scotland, uplifting, writing process, writing theory

• Greetings from a Fairytale Cat

  

  This is a cat, but he prefers best to be called a Bunny…Pup…Dog…or Dawg. And he really loves morning teatime… ☀️☕️🫖🧚‍♂️. 📖📚 May your day be grand. 😘 🐱🐾Your very own, —Peeko

  07/18/2022 1:21 pm

  fairies, fun, home, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, peeko, tea, uplifting

• Meeting My Nephew who Loves Stories and the Books I’ve Found to Read Myself

  July 2, 2022 8:32 pm (with my sister, my nephew Jordan, and their dog Isabella) I got to meet my nephew today! He’s 4 months old and has already read (heard) so many books! (I’d told him, ‘Me too.’) He goes to the library for story-time and already dances too, and sings sometimes. So he […]

  07/02/2022 8:32 pm

  books, christina rossetti, ed sheeran, fun, henry james, library, memoir, memoir stories, new york city, novels, poets, reading, rest, self portraits

• Tell Me About You

  There might have been a small overflow of posts from 10 yrs ago or more come up in your email from the blog this weekend from when I was updating my WordPress plan…These were posts mysteriously restored and not an avalanche of relevant news, my apologies. I wrote this About Me yesterday to share on […]

  06/20/2022 5:22 pm

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