Tag: memoir stories
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Groundhog Day and a Home Library Day of Surprises
No more single “to read” spot; it is more intuitive. 😊 🐱This groundhog does not do ‘tricks’ like show you a season out of his shadow, but if he wants to, he will, and then he will take your treat after. Today, I gave 4 books away today because I’d wanted to 😊💕📚. It was […]
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A Room: What a Turn of the Chair May Do and More Relaxation
🐱Peeko shows you… It’s made such an improvement to move this chair in toward the room away from the back wall, tilt toward the bed with a view of the window. —🐱💕Peeko Yoga: The yoga night class was great. I first noticed the incense was very therapeutic with plenty of circulation in the room, along […]
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Servant of Love by Patty Griffin, with One Favorite Thing About Monday
One Favorite Thing About Monday Finding 2 new favorite poems, by W.B. Yeats, instead of one (I am practicing them for your listen), and how he’d once said (paraphrased): “You give a poem its fine machinery, and that is all you do,” with his poems of lakes and isles and clover and honey…My favorite poems […]
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Two Poetry Reviews: with an Unconventional Possible Wedding Ceremony Poem
I am still practicing my recitation of a favorite poem by W.B. Yeats for you, and it may be some time, as I continue my reading of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I did drop the book accidentally on the ground on the sidewalk, but I learned this is a pocket book not the […]
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A Dream of a Color
It was my birthday in the dream…You said, “I am giving you the color Orange.” I said, “As a gift? Thank you.” And I continued, “I am eating tangerines again, it has been healing.” You continue, “I am not giving you fruits though, just the color.” [dream ends.]
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My Library as of Tonight, A Trip to Find My Holy Bible
Saturday, January 28, 2023 my home library as of now…with some new books I’d gotten or had found to read. and some lit magazines I’d had 🙂 decorative accents added: my silver pen with my name engraved and amethyst topped, and a pink blush little laughing buddha I looked for it on my shelf in […]
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Pride and Prejudice at the Library and Two Poetry Re-Finds
Quickly snapped in a pleasantly secluded spot.🧚♂️I think the Non-Fiction sign signifies that I’m real (maybe.) 😊 This time the bus came, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice also made it to the library (with a Jane character inside, and a mistakenly named-Jane, myself, who often wouldn’t correct people who seemed confused with the name […]
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Pocket Jane
January 25, 2023 I had picked out this particular Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and added it to my Wishlist, which I just bought and it arrived yesterday. Fall 2021, I’d found a print copy of this popular title (I have a few other books by her that I’ve enjoyed). I was happy to […]
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A Pocket Blank Page Journal: for Leaves and Flowers I May Discover and Press
Set up with it all ready. Tea first, and then the little treasures I’d found (which are hidden in the photo for now.) Don’t worry; I am not drinking the glue. I bought this blank journal and it arrived yesterday, in which this morning I’ve placed flowers or leaves that I’d find and press in […]
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Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew
After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂 […]
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Morning Tea Party with New Winter Teapot
A new teapot 😊 My novel notebook and pen are on the table to steep in ideas before I write them in…💕 I had been ‘wishing for it’ awhile, marked as a ‘winter and spring’ teapot. 🧚♂️ Thanks to my sister Jenna and brother in law Wally! I love that the gifts I received are […]
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Mon Amour May: A Photo Mystery, Solved!
—Thank you, Mr. Francesco Medici for writing to me (from Italy) about this Mystery photo post, and also clearing up who is who! From left to right: Ameen Rihani, May Ziadeh (the one I originally recognized as May by her gaze), and Samia Baroody’s husband Charles Corm, and the woman in the front holding the […]
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Tuesday (And More)
I myself have little memory of the day let alone the week, it has been a very busy week, but I am sure it was good. 🙂 I notice I was stressing the blog posts (as in stressing what is best?), and then I realized my goals don’t actually need me to do that when […]
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Sunbathing at the Library with Poetry
It’s Wednesday, it has been a week of busyness and creations that I cherish, and I slow down midway, read poetry in the sun, have a few small books to share, but for now it’s just sun, sit the other way, sun against my neck, a drink of water, rest, stretch, read, listen, associate, smile, […]
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Forgiveness by Patty Griffin, listening to a live performance
I have been offline mostly continuing a few days. I’ve been listening to music today for the comfort and healing, on shuffle, and this singer came on first. I haven’t really listened to her closely in many years, and she was one of the first singer-songwriters I’d found and loved, and my favorite one for […]
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A Special Gift I’ve Given to Myself: My Rosary and Embroidered Pouch
I knew this year when I visited the gift-shop at La Salette around Christmastime and was too sick to visit my family in Brooklyn, New York at the time, to be postponed, that we would wait to exchange gifts. I still knew of a gift I wanted to give myself this year… The first night […]
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My 4 Simple New Year’s Resolutions
So this is a kind of hands off theme! Do you have any new year’s resolutions?
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2022: A Flash of a Recap
December 31, 2022 This was the first book I read this year, a poetry book by Robert Frost (b. March 26, 1874) that won a Pulitzer Prize in Literature in the 1920s, and this is an over 100 yr old copy from the library: I was up late past my bedtime reading Frost! He just […]
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Peeko’s Christmas Party
—😽Peeko WAIT! — Happy 73rd Birthday, George Winston! I am listening to your Summer album, my favorite of yours. (Catches breath 😉 💕—Jade
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It’s Been About Angels, so I’ll Tell You a True Story
December 23, 2022 I enjoy mindfulness meditation, ‘tho I’ve learned or tried many kinds of meditation. I want to try again sitting meditation. It helps me to have a guide of directions in mind rather than sitting bored or completely unengaged…I also like lovingkindness meditation. These are best done sitting, relaxed and alert. For the […]
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Merry Christmas featuring My Nephew Jordan
I called off the blog vacation ‘cause all I can really do today is things like nap to hip hop and dance music and meditative songs just free playing on shuffle, most that I would hope to dance to normally. But I will moderate the blog postings not to get too crazy with screentime. 😊💕🙏 […]
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A Christmas Carol, Bonus Stories by Charles Dickens
I loved reading the “Other Stories” in Charles Dickens’ Christmas book and I finished the last two very short pieces this morning. They can all be read separately, and I can see how someone could pick one and read it slowly. The majority of pieces seem to be memoir style with universal themes and are […]
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Compassion
my Care Cat gazing at me as I was napping & feeling unwell Update: I just woke and my breathing is all normal now! I slept for a long time…as for books, I woke with a bookmark in my bed with me but no book❔😊📚🧚: I must have fallen asleep before I got one to […]
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Just Two More Things: A Secret Story to Gift and a Novel Read
(This is my fortune cookie today, featured photo: I could have written it! You know 😅And maybe I did, indirectly, with “algorithms.”) I said I would go on my blog vacation, then I left on a sad note and with my original blog theme needing to be restored, and it is working fine now…that has […]
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Party in My Home Library
December 15, 2022 I just threw all the books off my shelf (quietly) and it looks just like Christmas morning! I love design and especially arranging my books. I had gotten a few new books recently…That one folder still standing I was very gentle with as it contains my recent drawings and I will keep […]
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Before all the Layers…
…Woke up! and got ready for La Salette! This is the local shrine I had sketched at over the summer. 🧚✨ * after I hope to go back again to La Salette another night before Christmas. I would like to look inside the gift shop. I accidentally stepped on a ketchup packet at the cafeteria […]
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Singer Amy Lee’s Birthday and a Sketch at the Library
Well, it looks like this blog in recent weeks has been me floating toward you upon a great sea of famous author and singers’ birthdays…I am keeping up. Today, I had looked online after thinking (there is another birthday?)…It is singer Amy Lee from Evanescence’s birthday. Last yr or before, I was so overwhelmed with […]
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An Abstract Painting in the Making, Session 2
IN PROGRESS. Session 2. An abstract painting in the making. (This was session 1 when I was trying out texture on canvas.) * A unique composition, I notice is forming that I’d like to keep, and this one I find best painted with very slow additions and its simplicity and pure space preserved. I will […]
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Mary Haskell, author, art patron, and school principal celebrates a Birthday Today
“People are always longing for someone to help them realize their best selves,” – Mary Haskell (portrait drawn by artist Kahlil Gibran) Today is writer, art patron (b. in South Carolina, 1873) Boston school principal, Mary Haskell’s birthday…that is, the big 149 yrs! Can you handle it? (This is probably the most biased birthday greeting […]
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A Glimpse, in Red
December 10, 2022 This picture I just got to see tonight. It features my cousin in laws’ wedding in Western MA I’d written a little about on the blog. You will also see me, from the back in a red dress, with black heeled strap shoes, my hair up, and I am on the dance […]
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A Book and a Birthday
I am reading a new book, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977). It is very intriguing. I’d remembered reading the novel sometime when I’d lived in New York and I remembering loving her writing style, yet nothing else at all. I thought it was published in 2004, but that was the reprint; it’s 1977 […]
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My Breath Said, Let’s Dance More, and then a Secret Gift Arrived
(feat. photo, Fri., December 2, ‘22 concept: ‘philosophical inquiry on self-portraits in general’ while taking the photo) I spent the evening dancing before dinnertime… Realizing my breath can tell me that I’ve been away from it, and my body desire shows me I am happy to return. I’ve been doing plenty of writing, painting, blogging, […]
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Happy Birthday, Britney! (A Literary and Art History and Present Day Post)
My December 2nd post rewritten as you’ll read on… :): The last I remember, I was writing yesterday evening about the phrase a “New York minute” and expressing I would like to slow down, in my amended post to wish Britney a happy birthday from the post of December 2nd, and somehow half the night […]
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My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future
Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a […]
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Peeko’s Backpack?
…A poetry backpack for my cat Peeko whom I am currently schooling in subjects of his choice, but no, I didn’t get it. 😊 💞📚😊🐱Put in an Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry volume: her lighter and more silly sarcastic rhymes and sonnets, a William Shakespeare play, Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, and any metered […]
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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 […]
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