Tag: inspiring

• Self Portrait Yoga in the Sun

  

  01/25/2023 10:40 am

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• Pedestrian Bridge Over the Train Tracks in Brčko, Bih by Milica Mijatovic

  PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE TRAIN TRACKS IN BRČKO, BIH —By Milica Mijatović I don’t know when the bridge was built, or when the trains stopped running, or which side of the tracks was ours & which theirs, or why they painted the bridge turquoise, or why war is obsessed with lines, or who graffitied one […]

  01/20/2023 1:31 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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• Painting in Progress: Abstract Texture

  

  FEATURED ART PROJECT, new painting at very start 🙂

  12/02/2022 2:49 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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• candy

  last night I picked out candy vanilla and strawberry softly chewy ice cream cones in glitter I could taste Jade

  11/14/2022 10:23 pm

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• Two Quotes from The Portrait of a Lady: Choose

  

  📖 2) She fixed her eyes upon him, and there was something in their character that reminded him of large, polished buttons; he seemed to see the reflection of surrounding objects upon the pupil. The expression of a button is not usually deemed human, but there was something in Miss Stackpole’s gaze that made him, […]

  08/19/2022 2:32 pm

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• Five Quotes from the Past That Feel True Now

  

  July 22, 2022 I came across these quotes in Google when I was looking for quotes during a moment of rest, hours after I’d posted the photo and my words in the first post. There is so much that resonates with me in these in my own life and past. The first quotes are by […]

  07/22/2022 6:38 pm

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• “This Is…”

  July 5, 2022 This Is… Humidity. This is the red flower moon full of… This is an anonymous lady shouting out (while grilling me) “Don’t be sorry, honey!” [to a man with her] of me, after there was no altercation, but only kindly manners, as he’d come quickly around a hidden bend, jogging toward my […]

  07/05/2022 4:25 pm

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• Partly in Heaven

  

  June 24, 2022 late evening, night begins

  06/29/2022 6:33 am

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• 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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• “Without Question”

  

  roses, high noon (a quatrain) I used to fear the night, but ’round your head, there was a glow. I liked it better than the sun, It was love, I was yet to know. —Jade

  05/31/2022 12:07 pm

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• The Gift by H.D.

  The Gift —by H.D. (born 1886, Pennsylvania) Instead of pearls—a wrought clasp— a bracelet—will you accept this? You know the script— you will start, wonder: what is left, what phrase after last night? This: The world is yet unspoiled for you, you wait, expectant— you are like the children who haunt your own steps for […]

  05/31/2022 11:20 am

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• ‘Please Forgive Me’—Rumi

  

  I found the book I must’ve opened some months ago that wasn’t at the store last week; it wasn’t there but I see it in my above photo, so I know what to look for…I think it was Rumi: The Book of Love. 🙏💕📖 —Jade …from another book, a poem by Rumi …The miracle-signs: you […]

  05/30/2022 7:31 pm

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• Refreshed He Was, Said Peeko…

  

  (in honor of Britney Spears) I could see Peeko was refreshed after a break from massive amounts of photo-taking from his well-meaning Paparazza Mom 📷☺️🧚‍♀️📸📷 and was wanting a post…🐱 “Yoga, you say? Let me show you how it’s done…” said Peeko. 🦁 “It goes like this.” 🐱🦁🐈 —Peeko

  05/30/2022 6:02 pm

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• “#1”

  As I listen to the flying birds singing far off and continuously…These still words land within my resting hands, bridging all my distances… —Jade

  05/25/2022 9:12 am

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• “#2”

  With you, there is another world layered over this one. It’s so translucent and wondrously original, I’ve said. You ask if there is quality glass shielding all this. There is, I reply, but it feels like the edges are useless… —Jade

  05/25/2022 8:44 am

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• Shakespeare Gets a Bath

  

  (kind of) I have enjoyed the spa-like activity of lounging my legs and feet in the bathtub with warm water and soaps, not as a relaxation goal but it makes the skin softer and fragrant. In the meantime, I thought I’d bring Shakespeare’s play I got from the library, called Cymbeline, in to read with […]

  05/23/2022 10:29 am

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• What? He Likes the Way He Looks

  

  “Yeah and?” —Peeko The bathroom door was mostly closed and I’d opened it to behold the above view… (📷photo by Dan his dad). 🐱 … My two full-length poetry books on the coffee table, Moonflower (2018) and A Little Honey Sweetens The Flame (2021). Peeko doesn’t actually endorse anyone’s poetry though. 🐱😎 … Another mystery […]

  05/18/2022 6:53 pm

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• A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show

  

  I found this bookmark in a library book I’d taken out and read yesterday, a slim blue copy of literary insight with a little biography of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. From that book, these lines of a poem by Edna I’d not heard of spoke to me most poignantly: The stone the angel rolled […]

  05/17/2022 7:57 pm

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• “The Reddest Leaves”

  Don’t talk about the dream aloud, so I see that little brown, glossy-coated bear running low to the ground and coming toward me in the solitary, unmoving morning air, beside the outside gate of the swimming pool, and in the dream, I consider, if I don’t glare at the bear, if I act kindly, it […]

  05/16/2022 2:44 pm

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• The Moon’s Different Forms Tonight

  

  … Before bed Through the window, the moon is now shaped as a soft golden-yellow chrysanthemum and then like little square windows painted all golden-white…the tears left, the face kissed… while in the dark. —Jade

  05/15/2022 9:27 pm

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• From Love Sonnets of Proteus, poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

  I am reading through poetry in a pair of anthologies I’d found at the library…here’s one, the first in the book. * From Love Sonnets of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt I see you, Juliet, still, with your straw hat Loaded with vines, and with your dear pale face, On which those thirty years so […]

  05/13/2022 2:06 pm

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• Five Favorite Songs and a Tea

  

  “Ain’t it crazy what’s revealed when you’re not looking all that close?” 🔥💕🎶 …🌊💕 My own review of 🍃”Ali Shan“🫖 green oolong tea from Adagio: Sweet, dewy and refreshing! Takes you to the top of the waterfall, green-oolong leaves unfurling fully at the bottom of the tea pot, warmed as if by the very sun. […]

  04/07/2022 8:39 am

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• “A Villanelle for the Times”

  

  You might remember when I was writing a villanelle poem, wanting to try another traditional form, as I’d written my first ghazal at the time and a sonnet, but I didn’t like the draft or that particular form for the idea. I transformed that villanelle into a ghazal, and I was happy with that latest […]

  04/05/2022 3:04 pm

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• Spa Time at Home and a Couple of Phrases to Mend

  

  Feb. 11, ’22, needs improvement 🙂 March 22, ’22 I have taken out my newly-written ghazal poem (on my laptop) ‘tho I’d first thought it might still be too hot to my touch but it wasn’t and was ready to read. Reading it aloud I can see it is almost complete, but just one line […]

  03/22/2022 7:57 pm

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• I Turned My Villanelle into a Ghazal Today

  

  wrote by hand first, revised on laptop, typed paper is the original villanelle in transformation… I have turned my villanelle poem that was really giving me trouble into a ghazal today! I resisted doing that at first feeling I was maybe betraying the villanelle form and maybe also trying the complex, known-to-be-challenging ghazal form again […]

  03/18/2022 8:23 pm

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• The Tea’s Ready

  

  The tea is ready (Sencha green) and the book is ready too: a reread of mine, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. 🍃😊🌺🗝🍃☕️

  03/18/2022 7:44 am

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• 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

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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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• The Prairie Post: Willa Cather’s Set of Novels, O Pioneers!….

  

  I will be reading my poem tomorrow, Friday, March 11th at Indelible’s online Poetry Launch event that will take place at 10 AM EST. This scene, from my balcony in Massachusetts, of at first, very thickly-frosted pine trees all morning giving way to dripping and trickling onto the melting ground with such warm winter sun, […]

  03/10/2022 11:37 am

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• In Rhythm

  

  “In Rhythm” by Jade Nicole Beals Feb. 16, ’22 28 W x 22 H acrylic paint on canvas The story of inspiration for this one: I’d declared this painting done last week but realized afterwards I wanted to rework it with some final touches…which became to revitalize it…and soon I found I was painting a […]

  02/16/2022 2:28 pm

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• Singing with the Morning Sun

  

  January 21, 2022 I left out a good note when I posted this; I posted it for the essence of the moment, not for my singing! 😊 A clip from this morning when I was singing “The Sway,” the singer-songwriter, Joan Shelley’s song, along with her recording…to Peeko as the morning began and he fell […]

  01/21/2022 8:37 pm

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• Growing Upward

  

  “Growing Upward” by Jade Nicole Beals 12 W x 9 H. Jan. 18, 2022 I thought these trees I see through my windows each day had their leaves tilted downward, but to my surprise, one day I was looking to paint them and I noticed the trees were growing upward. It’s an interesting exercise (often […]

  01/18/2022 12:17 pm

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• Considering Love Made Seen

  

  January 6, 2022 photos at sunrise for May Ziadeh My smile is because you delight me and more; I smile to delight you more. May anyone around me enjoy my smile too, feel the warmth you’d set within me, it could spread. I have been talking too much, my sacred treasures sometimes beyond the language […]

  01/06/2022 10:31 am

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• My Personal Healing Story

  “Lighthouse” painting by me (2013) Originally Posted: November 23, 2020 If you’ve been reading this blog this year, you might have seen me mention my own healing early spring this year and might have wondered from what I had found healing and what had helped me heal.  I want to share this story because maybe […]

  11/20/2020 4:31 pm

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