Tag: gratitude

• A Pocket Blank Page Journal: for Leaves and Flowers I May Discover and Press

  

  Set up with it all ready. Tea first, and then the little treasures I’d found (which are hidden in the photo for now.) Don’t worry; I am not drinking the glue. I bought this blank journal and it arrived yesterday, in which this morning I’ve placed flowers or leaves that I’d find and press in […]

  01/25/2023 9:39 am

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂 […]

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• “If the Stars Were Not Out”

  by Jade Nicole Beals A whispered line overheard in the night as I slept from through the open window that overlooks mostly unpopulated woods: I considered, half-dreaming, The line has been spoken protectively, ‘though I am safe, and I fell back to sleep. I think, in any case, you would still have come. A surgeon […]

  01/24/2023 6:03 am

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• Submitting My Paintings to the Boston Arts Museum and Writing My Novel

  

  🐱Peeko with my white jasmine flower art (not one I’d submitted) Today I entered a couple of my own original paintings into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition for Abstract Art. They could accept one or more to display at the Museum, and they would also be up for sale there during that time! […]

  01/23/2023 3:18 pm

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• Morning Tea Party with New Winter Teapot

  

  A new teapot 😊 My novel notebook and pen are on the table to steep in ideas before I write them in…💕 I had been ‘wishing for it’ awhile, marked as a ‘winter and spring’ teapot. 🧚‍♂️ Thanks to my sister Jenna and brother in law Wally! I love that the gifts I received are […]

  01/23/2023 3:13 pm

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• Love Me Like…Wind Down Slow Flow Yoga and Written Meditation

  

  I wasn’t too glad with the video and the song particularly; I realized there are more videos I could do on my yoga channel @jadenicoleyoga. The wisdom part of the post that came after was not restoring, but I could see the full thoughts in draft. A tech issue that makes me realize what I […]

  01/23/2023 12:11 pm

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• Listening to Poems I Wrote Together

  

  Peeko is listening to my audio poem recordings on the speaker…😊💗💕and then his Dad came in and snapped a photo of the scene 📸 …having a relaxing night of reflection and gratitude, looking forward to tomorrow’s gifts to enjoy, hope you are having a good week… 💕—Jade

  01/22/2023 8:14 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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• “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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• Author at Work

  

  I’ve decided to work on my novel each day for about the five day week, myself immersed in the events and characters consistently, toward completion but enjoying this all. It’s in the Fantasy genre, Young Adult. And I am free to skip days. I will be starting a new painting soon, so I can alternate […]

  01/03/2023 6:17 am

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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 […]

  01/02/2023 1:04 pm

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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, […]

  01/01/2023 8:29 pm

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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 […]

  12/25/2022 5:00 pm

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• My Short Story Printed and Ready, and an Author from Mississipi

  I had started writing my novel, which will be a longer length project, but I have been kind of following my desire and writing poems and this “gift” story in between. As I had written previously that I was writing a “secret story” to be given to someone as a gift at my family’s Christmas […]

  12/22/2022 4:30 pm

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• #9

  our eyes met with a smile a hill was nearby and conveniently so you would walk up and turn and face me I would note this instantly so I would look up

  12/21/2022 8:03 pm

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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 […]

  12/21/2022 5:14 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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• One Question

  

  —What do you enjoy besides painting or writing or the fine arts? One thing: I really like fashion; I will need to find an outfit for a “Glam Christmas party” I received an invite to, and casual fashion is fashion too; I’d not heard of an event like that. But I like it. I got […]

  12/11/2022 5:53 pm

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• “Dream Catcher”

  “Dream Catcher” by Jade Nicole Beals hear me read the poem: You are a few years younger than me, and you’d already felt much wiser. I remember when you sent me a poem; I thought, is this by William Shakespeare? It can’t be for me? It is so good. It was in the days of […]

  12/09/2022 4:25 pm

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• My Breath Said, Let’s Dance More, and then a Secret Gift Arrived

  

  (feat. photo, Fri., December 2, ‘22 concept: ‘philosophical inquiry on self-portraits in general’ while taking the photo) I spent the evening dancing before dinnertime… Realizing my breath can tell me that I’ve been away from it, and my body desire shows me I am happy to return. I’ve been doing plenty of writing, painting, blogging, […]

  12/05/2022 10:00 pm

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• Aromatherapy Night Sky Surprise

  

  January 25, 2023 People may respond differently to different herbs; this cat was loving it. 💕💕 —Peeko says, “But don’t take my Jane.” He enjoys classic books of literary style, often with portraits on the cover. This afternoon after yoga, I tried glueing the square of fabric I’d kept, which I’d been saving, when I […]

  12/05/2022 1:30 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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• Peeko’s Puffy Kitten Face, A Couple of New Art Supplies

  

  A rainy Sunday evening: my fine art collector and curator,🐱Peeko viewing again my latest drawing I finished yesterday before it is placed inside an art folder for safekeeping. I was careful not to hold it too close to the kitten. He made a little tiny grunt of delight as he looked into one little part […]

  11/27/2022 6:30 pm

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• Classics Cat, Painted Jane Eyre, with Music by Justin Bieber

  

  …this literary scholar and fine art collector cat smiles at the Readers… —😽😎🐱Peeko 🎶🎶… and becomes a very plush, emotional cat as he loves when I am reading a many-paged classic novel, and he may like it himself for me to be reading, if he would pick, he loves relaxation, and when I am relaxing […]

  11/24/2022 10:13 pm

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• Family Pictures

  

  me with my in law relatives!, my very dear Grampie, with his grandchildren! (That includes my husband Dan in green, his brother Chad, and My grandfather Gerry’s other two grandsons. The two cousins are twins you may notice; I’d not seen them in yrs and I named them each right away.) Beals family photo. and […]

  11/24/2022 10:12 pm

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• Session #3 Drawing in Progress, Grateful with Art Supporter :)

  

  with my dad in law, Dave who is a great supporter of my art and bought my painting “Mornings at the Sea” at my first art show!! 🙏💕😊💕With my new drawing In Progress! Session #3📝! I brought it to Thanksgiving in my new drawing book a great thing to do, draw while at a home […]

  11/24/2022 6:21 pm

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• Pocket Peeko

  

  Pocket Peeko by Jade Nicole Beals, graphite pencil drawing November 18, 2022 in pocket sketchbook. In the meantime, as I’ve been waiting to receive my bigger-sized drawing paper pad, I created this pocket Peeko in a pocket sketchbook, a sketchbook I’ve almost completed. 🙂 When I showed Peeko my completed drawing, he looked calmly at […]

  11/19/2022 11:05 am

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• My First Novel in Progress, Finding the Genre and Audience: YA Fantasy, and On ‘Point of View’

  November 15, 2022, night I feel like I have more info now that my story completed could fit into the popular Fantasy genre for Young Adults. I wrote about 200 words tonight typed, and I am going to rest awhile at 2328 words total. 🙂 I read my typed draft, then I wrote at the […]

  11/16/2022 9:57 am

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• candy-glitter

  if you’re wondering, my daydreams are sweeter, how I look at the sky all through the day; the candy-glitter kept its glitter, and I will keep my promise to gaze Jade

  11/15/2022 7:18 am

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• A Selfie Moment

  

  I’ve started writing my first novel today. The characters may be fictional, but I took a selfie break, as I’d felt like today. And it has been, that I am actually real. I intend to write the characters to feel very real enough to let the reader step inside the story themselves. I have the […]

  11/10/2022 3:00 pm

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• My First Novel Begins…Now

  

  up and up brand college ruled journal jumbo size found at target Here you can see my supplies, the notebook now written in some first pages (but not to see the words written, a surprise, of course). This paper calendar happening to match is for the story’s timeline, but I am not really near up […]

  11/10/2022 11:07 am

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• Words Arranged, Well, These…

  

  night and almost morningtime (continues) What if this book I am reading could be done and I can close it and move onto a new one? Is it fair I judge the book by the author’s name and opening sentence, if it’s a pen-name too? Only teasing a little, but the novel is just a […]

  11/10/2022 5:48 am

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• An Autumn Leaf Found and Pressed, A Gift for Myself

  

  I forgot this was ready yesterday. This leaf is taken out of my book…and it’s preserved, such an art! Thank you. 🍁🌳🙏 Jade

  11/05/2022 10:36 am

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• Bringing Calm with Arranging Books with Honeybear…A Milk and Honey Moisturizer

  

  November 2, 2022 My books were greatly out of order, book 2 showing before book 1 of a series, poetry, non-fiction, novel in a row…But I found that a little fun. I wanted to bring some calm and beauty and simplicity to the bookcase and my mind this afternoon…I also spaced the books a little […]

  11/03/2022 9:27 am

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• Little Gifts So Sweet

  

  Updated this post from Friday, October 21, 2022 I just returned a random library find on the shelf called The Border Lord and Lady, I was in the mood for another non-deep or tragic, petite thick paperback type novel or stories, the kind professors would scoff at but there could be one among them that […]

  10/23/2022 2:42 pm

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• :*

  

  (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

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• A Little Treasure I Found

  

  I found this stuffed toy at a gift shop at a rest stop in Western Massachusetts as we were arriving. My husband noticed the shop looked like it had nice things and we looked around. 🙂 This was the same trip (post: last section) when I lost my favorite pajamas. I saw a small display […]

  09/13/2022 7:37 pm

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