Tag: lovingkindness
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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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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 […]
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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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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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Sun Shower
My latest painting is complete! “Sun Shower” by Jade Nicole Beals, January 17, 2023, 18 x 24 acrylic on wrapped canvas, can display directly on wall or in a frame, shown close up in natural light.
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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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Snowfall during Morning Tea with Handwritten Letters
Morning tea during snowfall, fluffy, twirling snowflakes; my cat Peeko is smiling at his reflection in the tv screen before he reclines for a nap. I sometimes sit in bound angle pose or butterfly pose in yoga, perfect size in this spacious chair, soles of the feet touching together, feels good for the hips, lower […]
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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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“Acknowledgment”
“Acknowledgment” by Jade Nicole Beals (poem read) Because I wanted to surprise you with my contrast to the idea that not everyone you meet in the day wants to give you something—make you a cup of coffee, or tea with a teaspoon of fresh tea leaves, show you my art originals. I have a ton […]
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Peeko’s Paws Pressed Together, a Prayerful Expression with Compassion for a Fellow Rhyme-Loving Cat across the Country
Peeko loves praying with me, and he was interested in the rosary prayer today as he napped. Peeko has been rested now in a more private, less time on camera living, as one of my new year’s resolutions is to take fewer photos of Peeko, as he prefers more time relaxed in the moment. He […]
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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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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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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 […]