Tag: japan

• A Day at the Fine Arts Museum in Boston

  

  My paintings are now varnished up to date with a very subtle protective coat; I am sitting at home after a day at the museum. This photo is my own art at home now: the blue painting on the left, then a pink anemone, a famous botanical drawing print I’d found at a flea market…

  03/26/2023 8:35 pm

  19th century, art, art history, art museum, art tips, birthdays, boston, france, french, home, interior design, japan, literary salon we keep, massachusetts, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, my birthday, my photography, new england, poetry, poets, robert frost

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  …as if I’d dreamed the tea cup, but found it first and remembered the dream in my own fancy when I received it and picked it up in my hands and looked… The design is just what I would wish…Green I often turn to and admire, green that feels like new sprouts and grass and…

  06/06/2022 2:49 pm

  antique, antiques shop, art, artists, beauty, benevolence, boston, chicago, creative process, creative writing prompt, creativity, dreams, free writing, garden, gratitude, home, interior design, japan, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my dreams, my photography, philosophy, poetic, poetry, prose poetry, secrets, spirituality, sun, tea, uplifting, wellness, writing prompt

• An Indelible Online Poetry Reading: Connection & Disconnection in The Ikea Age

  

  so much blush these evenings & more this morning with the moon too 😘🌕 I attended Indelible Evenings as a guest on Wed. 11/17/21, an online reading hosted in Dubai that goes along with Indelible magazine in which two of my poems from my third book in progress will be published. Roula Maria-Dib is the…

  11/20/2021 9:32 am

  21st century, boston, dubai, england, english literature, fairies, food, gratitude, jane austen, japan, mab jones, moon, morning, omar sabbagh, poetry, poetry books, poetry reading, poets, reading, william shakespeare, yoga

• A Flower I Would Have Dreamed

  

  I didn’t even have to steal this flower; I found it fallen upon my path yesterday morning after I’d written my first post of the new series. I noticed its color when I saw it so lively upon the asphalt concrete: warm rose blended with violet and amethyst, my most desired color pink for a…

  10/08/2021 2:33 pm

  boston, catholic, fairies, garden, gratitude, home, india, interior design, japan, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, morning, my photography, philosophy, poetic, poetry, prose poetry, self portraits, spirituality, tea, yoga

• In Which I Actually Answer A Question or Two

  

  from 10/5/21 Bringing lost posts back out of revision This Sunday evening before bed, Peeko looking at me, noting I look well, paw reaching with compassion, his job accomplished! Have you heard of Japan’s ’lucky cat’ figurines? I think I have a real one here. He does this gesture often now, but will have a…

  10/06/2021 8:22 pm

  creative process, home, japan, library, memoir, memoir stories, moon, my photography, peeko, poets, spirituality

• Tea Ceremony at Wind in the Pines

  July 30, 2012 It was a drizzly Sunday afternoon when Dan and I arrived at the Shofuan “Wind in The Pines” tea hut.  We sat on the backless chairs with “beginners’ mind;” we had never been to a tea ceremony before, and as light rain fell, we enjoyed the empty hut before us, which had…

  07/30/2012 11:50 am

  art, boston, garden, italy, japan, local events, museums, tea