Tag: fun

• Groundhog Day and a Home Library Day of Surprises

  

  🐱This groundhog does not do ‘tricks’ like show you a season out of his shadow, but if he wants to, he will, and then he will take your treat after. Today, I gave 4 books away today because I’d wanted to 😊💕📚. It was not great though overall: windy, cold, and the wind kept blowing […]

  02/02/2023 4:13 pm

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• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, A Fun Review and Reflection

  

  that pen does not say Jane, but Jade 💕😊a treasured gift my husband Dan had given me I finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (pub. 1817) at the salon today! What a memorable moment with my history of reading it a decade or more ago and not continuing at the time, finding a free […]

  01/31/2023 5:42 pm

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• Wordless With Words

  

  📙Poetry by Yeats

  01/30/2023 1:58 pm

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• A Dream of a Color

  It was my birthday in the dream…You said, “I am giving you the color Orange.” I said, “As a gift? Thank you.” And I continued, “I am eating tangerines again, it has been healing.” You continue, “I am not giving you fruits though, just the color.” [dream ends.]

  01/28/2023 10:00 pm

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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 or had found to read. and some lit magazines I’d had 🙂 decorative accents added: my silver pen with my name engraved and amethyst topped, and a pink blush little laughing buddha I looked for it on my shelf in […]

  01/28/2023 7:18 pm

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• Pride and Prejudice at the Library and Two Poetry Re-Finds

  

  Quickly snapped in a pleasantly secluded spot.🧚‍♂️I think the Non-Fiction sign signifies that I’m real (maybe.) 😊 This time the bus came, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice also made it to the library (with a Jane character inside, and a mistakenly named-Jane, myself, who often wouldn’t correct people who seemed confused with the name […]

  01/27/2023 4:11 pm

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• Self Portrait Reclining in the Sun

  

  01/24/2023 12:05 pm

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• Bitter is the New Black

  

  a book for the local book club…

  01/20/2023 4:52 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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• “Not My Door”

  

  ….from the “Not My Door” photo series, 2022 edition. 🙃😊 This is not my door, but it is a fairytale. And my expression is saying, I wish you were in this very doorway :). 💕—Jade *A Flash of a Recap 2022*Best Bath Tips for Relaxation (just a little warning of photos for anyone at work.)

  01/20/2023 1:31 pm

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• Sunbathing at the Library with Poetry

  

  It’s Wednesday, it has been a week of busyness and creations that I cherish, and I slow down midway, read poetry in the sun, have a few small books to share, but for now it’s just sun, sit the other way, sun against my neck, a drink of water, rest, stretch, read, listen, associate, smile, […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 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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• “File”

  by Jade Nicole Beals A poem is not a statement of facts, although a handwritten draft may be a primary source of history. One has the right to write a poem even if disagreeing parties say no even without the record of it: As for the poet, I will elude the file folder; I still […]

  01/17/2023 6:03 am

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• Dream of You Dancing on the Beach

  I found myself stressing little decisions of normalcy and possible ways I was annoying people just before bed, and instead of a proverb or a chastisement came…You…dancing on the beach, and it was summer there. 😊☀️🏝. I realized your identity was not perfectly defined, and my view of you was a little blurry as you […]

  01/15/2023 8:27 pm

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• 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

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• 2022: A Flash of a Recap

  

  December 31, 2022 This was the first book I read this year, a poetry book by Robert Frost (b. March 26, 1874) that won a Pulitzer Prize in Literature in the 1920s, and this is an over 100 yr old copy from the library: I was up late past my bedtime reading Frost! He just […]

  12/31/2022 9:28 am

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• I cannot really stay awake. I am feverless, the winds are wild, my pillow is fluffed well, and the possible guardian angels in here are really just wonderful

  12/27/2022 6:57 am

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• Peeko’s Christmas Party

  

  —😽Peeko WAIT! — Happy 73rd Birthday, George Winston! I am listening to your Summer album, my favorite of yours. (Catches breath 😉 💕—Jade

  12/26/2022 11:33 am

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• It’s Been About Angels, so I’ll Tell You a True Story

  December 23, 2022 I enjoy mindfulness meditation, ‘tho I’ve learned or tried many kinds of meditation. I want to try again sitting meditation. It helps me to have a guide of directions in mind rather than sitting bored or completely unengaged…I also like lovingkindness meditation. These are best done sitting, relaxed and alert. For the […]

  12/23/2022 7:47 pm

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• “Note”

  poem read aloud for your listen Note by Jade Nicole Beals The dark does not hide what I would like to see A still star is still prettier than a shooting star, despite the rarities in science. Fireworks in the sky as a display are not a thing I’ve sought out after, but there is […]

  12/20/2022 6:03 am

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• Long Car Ride, I Am Reading Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

  

  😊💓and I don’t even know the year of publication yet of this book! On the way to Western MA, to a railway. 😊🎄🚃 After I threw all my books off the shelf gently and arranged them, I picked a reread and I am reading Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men. I loved her Little Women book […]

  12/19/2022 10:41 am

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• A Glam Christmas Party, at the Party

  

  This was such an original idea by my cousin in law to have a dress up glam Christmas party and definitely my kind of fun. Pictures in… a photo of a selfie happening 💋 I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season…who knows, maybe you’ll want to have a glam party yourself….Break up the […]

  12/18/2022 9:53 am

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• A Glam Christmas Party

  

  And no one is taking pictures yet? Well I took a few of myself. 😊💕 I got these sparkly pants today and the pink and gold belt too for this occasion, and with a light, black open sweater. I decided to see it as a “dress up” party, with some spontaneous theme for myself. I […]

  12/17/2022 9:15 pm

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• Party in My Home Library

  

  December 15, 2022 I just threw all the books off my shelf (quietly) and it looks just like Christmas morning! I love design and especially arranging my books. I had gotten a few new books recently…That one folder still standing I was very gentle with as it contains my recent drawings and I will keep […]

  12/15/2022 2:40 pm

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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 […]

  12/15/2022 11:40 am

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• Get the Party Started and then Welcome Relaxation

  

  Besides sketching with pencils at the library, yoga arm balance against the wall is great fun, for an evening lift you up and then an eventual release of energy from the whole day—a quick hold, come down slowly, just a few, and then to relax, and to recline. 🙂 💕Jade

  12/13/2022 7:16 pm

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• Singer Amy Lee’s Birthday and a Sketch at the Library

  

  Well, it looks like this blog in recent weeks has been me floating toward you upon a great sea of famous author and singers’ birthdays…I am keeping up. Today, I had looked online after thinking (there is another birthday?)…It is singer Amy Lee from Evanescence’s birthday. Last yr or before, I was so overwhelmed with […]

  12/13/2022 5:07 pm

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• Care Cat, Teddie, and the Moon and Stars Pocket

  

  …🐱Peeko and 🧸Teddie, ‘This is a very serious meeting’ a highly confidential meeting at the coffee table. 🙂 Peeko looks like he is trying to copy Teddie’s stance, and with his own classic ‘Peeko pout’ for effect. You might have read about my wellness replenishment index cards post I wrote, for artists or anyone who […]

  12/11/2022 6:28 pm

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• A Glimpse, in Red

  

  December 10, 2022 This picture I just got to see tonight. It features my cousin in laws’ wedding in Western MA I’d written a little about on the blog. You will also see me, from the back in a red dress, with black heeled strap shoes, my hair up, and I am on the dance […]

  12/11/2022 4:54 pm

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• A Book and a Birthday

  I am reading a new book, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977). It is very intriguing. I’d remembered reading the novel sometime when I’d lived in New York and I remembering loving her writing style, yet nothing else at all. I thought it was published in 2004, but that was the reprint; it’s 1977 […]

  12/09/2022 8:54 pm

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• Live on Camera!: ‘Dreams’ Session with PsychCreative Salon

  

  December 6, 2022 …I stepped into the livingroom to find this blushing rose pink champagne and red wine sunrise sky today I attended this informative and interactive dreaming session and poetry reading last week on video. Tuesday. Next time I will put into practice not being so disruptive with moving my camera around the whole […]

  12/06/2022 2:57 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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• My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future

  

  Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a […]

  12/05/2022 10:10 am

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• “Resonance”

  by Jade Nicole Beals How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed. I want to kiss as a practice. If you wish to. How did I find this video again? I practice the dance; I must try it again. I go to the mall to buy a […]

  12/02/2022 10:55 pm

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• Peeko’s Backpack?

  

  …A poetry backpack for my cat Peeko whom I am currently schooling in subjects of his choice, but no, I didn’t get it. 😊 💞📚😊🐱Put in an Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry volume: her lighter and more silly sarcastic rhymes and sonnets, a William Shakespeare play, Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, and any metered […]

  12/02/2022 9:54 pm

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• #8

  ‘What’s made you feel better today?’ (Have you seen your own face?… It is so aglow)…‘Hm, I don’t know…’ (…Radiant, I think your smile has lit up my smile. Yes, this remedy is working well.) (a tanka poem, from my haiku and tanka collection, may be a future project; they are a longer haiku)

  12/02/2022 2:00 pm

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• I Finish My Falling Apart Copy of Jane Eyre Before Midnight

  

  (photo and content update, “the morning after”) …I started with a short paint session, and I have the first part of my idea started well while the rest of the canvas looks in messy distress, but I was able to stop in time to just paint a little and also complete Jane Eyre (1847) while […]

  12/01/2022 10:19 am

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