Tag: love
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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…Faith through Music
MIA feat Ane Brun – All I Ever Wanted 😍🥰🗽😇🕰♥️ “I always say what I’m feeling…” True shh 🤫🎶. No 😀I want to say things. 😊 (in certain contented moments I could be quiet ❤️😊💋)
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As if Within a Blush of Dawn Rose Champagne Upon Awakening
I woke up in this.💕😊 Peeko saying, Do you see this? 😊💕 * And I feel well-rested after a full day as if from the year 1600, re-reading a favorite paper book called Memories by F. Muller (a book club read coming up from the library (if a book needs refreshment, just place it in […]
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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 […]
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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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Why All the Sagittarius Birthday Wishes?: A Reflection on Self and Soul
There is something I found last year, and although I am not serious about astrology as if it were a religion to me, I enjoy the patterns it suggests in life as a kind of artwork. I find it very accurate in many ways. I had found in my life great, deep healing in the […]
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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.)
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About Sun Shower
January 17, 2023 It’s been the sunniest day the day I completed this painting; I’d been wishing for sun. And some natural framing, in the generous flood of morning sunlight, I didn’t place in the rainbows in the next photo 😊 (or the bubbles.) I focused on this painting as my project of the week. […]
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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 […]
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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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May Ziadeh, a Biography by Jade Nicole Beals
July 21, 2022 (completed Jan. 2023) featured photo, Miss May A biography I wrote about the author, May Ziadeh, an author I’ve written of often on the blog, with biographical facts, and immersive writings in my own experiences beginning in May 2021. At the end, a summary and reflection of the book My Life With […]
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…with a Love Poem
…wrote a new poem today, starting off January :), it is a tanka poem, and I submitted the poem to a Journal that specifically publishes the tanka form, which is a 5 line poem very much like a haiku. I will let you know if it is published in a few months from now, next […]
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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, […]
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Lounging in My Library, Listening to the Rain…
—A butterscotch creme brulee hair tie. Happy New Year! —💕Jade
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A Leaf Composition
a sketch from imagination, arranging leaves for abstract practice, pocket book December 29, 2022. 💕—Jade
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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 […]
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A Poem from Long Ago Set to Music and Sung
my teddybears just held hands like that 🙂 on the bookshelf right side zoom in. And this teddybear Peeko 🧸🐱is napping on this blanket but also feels sad when his Mama is not feeling well and sleeping the day and night. 💕 See his puffy pouty kitten face as I say I love him. He […]
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Angel
December 23, 2022 It is a great storm of rain and winds, and I am resting fully, often sleeping, being healed gradually, with a calm, glowing expression I feel, ‘though little voice. And then the sun brightens, so brightly, I let my eyes open; it is so luxurious. It does not look like I will […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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All New Bookshelf as I Build My Own Home Library
🎂Happy 247th birthday Jane Austen! Dramatic shelf height last yr, now all new arrangement, with a few additions I will tell about as I read (of those three, I’ve read Jane Eyre and Song of Solomon). You may know I am forming my home paper book library. Previous photo showed the before; now the shelf […]
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Writing My First Novel, A Glimpse of Thoughts on a Special Object Unnamed
Home now. 🙂 Words written by hand tonight in my notebook for this novel, not typed up yet, just a free write that will be rephrased as part of an active scene to be written, which involve two main characters, and how they each feel or react to this same interesting object. I also wrote […]