Tag: inspiring
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
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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
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]