Tag: my photography
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It is Snowing, Poets A-roving…
…through poems. Dragonwell green tea just poured, 🧸 Teddie and 🧸Alisi just had their bath (warm water cloth with light soap) and are drying off, A book of Collected poems by W.B. Yeats for reading in the snow-time. 💕—Jade rove: to wander around*
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A Little Honey and Lovingkindness
Feb. 14, ‘23 promotional photos for my latest poetry book: A Little Honey Sweetens The Flame by Jade Nicole Beals (2021), poems of passion, connection, admiration, and the creating and embracing of oneself and one’s surroundings…💞Jade
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A Book I Found on My Birthday
I’ve also been thinking of my Grandma, my mom’s mom, who passed away a few years ago, I think of her often, sensing her near and especially in caring for my plants. I found this book in my room in Brooklyn today on my birthday. My mom had told me my Grandma would have sometimes…
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Flown in, this Leaf Again
Tomorrow is my birthday 🙂 (Feb. 19)…I will see my family in New York and celebrate my nephew’s first birthday! There was a little glue still; I knew it was the same one, and I rinsed it gently. My Nature Book I began yesterday night, with this sweet surprise from the day before: The Back…
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A Poetry Book Evening, Seamus Heaney, Unwinding…Now Morning
(I half-forgot there was a camera taking my portraits; yes that is Peeko next to me.) I am reading Seamus Heaney’s Poems, 1965 – 1975. I wanted a single book of poems, but this was the one there, and I’d browsed many books. I realized then I could happily borrow one book. washed away the…
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I Wonder…
I love the sky at the beach…😊♥️ It is so filled with love and mysteries. Blind Date with a Book, the kind of library display I get excited to see each year…to be read with a ghost, as in heavenly spirit, Miss May at the literary salon today. 😊 I’d picked this one ❔😊 “Strange…
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Audio Poetry and a Listening Holiday
(One tea display setup; they can rotate nicely, and I brighten them regularly.) Happy Poetry Listening Day! Let’s hear them! It’s set up like whatever you land on. 💕 A cup of my Rumi tea and a book to read. (I am unsure if this is actually a wine goblet, photo…
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Princesses and Guardian Angels
I did not realize I was dressed for the Breton Ball when I began reading this. 🖼—Peeko The angel is at eye level now; he greets her. He comforts Mama when she feels sad. 💕 He stays near as I read, beside my writing box, with my love sent to him.
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Author and Salon Host, Miss May’s Birthday Party
b. Feb 11, 1886 (heaven resets, and so she shows up around my age together.) …Pick an outfit for day, for breakfast. Maybe dance later! Applaud. I translated this French poem by May when I’d found her first book of poems; it is an introduction to the book. 😊💕 But I wrote it two other…
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In a Green Mood
Lounge-time, thinking of my Nature book, too, in between books to begin a new one, have another new idea: not yet found, soon! In a Green Mood. I was struggling with the best selfie stand position, the tilt starting sliding, caught a pose in time 🙂 💕—Jade
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Reading Simply Being Tonight…
—My reflective recommendation included in this post 🙂 from February 6, 2023 I began the day in the morning when I woke with one session of a new painting, with a new very portable table easel, given to me by my mom for Christmas. I like to sit and paint, and this is so easy…
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Sewing Surprise, Novel Neatness, Painting, and Miscellaneous
(Photo quote by literary salon host May Ziadeh) Sewing Surprise At the literary salon birthday edition much was shared in my own prayerful personal reflection at the start, and who knew I could mend my own winter coat? I have no problem having a tailor in town sew it, or hem pants. It’d been awhile…
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Artist Painting Early Morning
I have begun a new painting this morning. I will not show you the painting at all (it’s just one session in), but the moment. I got this table easel as a gift from my mom, so portable, only two light pieces. I like to paint seated (standing I get overly energized, and it’s more…
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Full Moon
🙂 Good night Moon, as for activities, let’s forget the original art and the tea for now, let’s go back even further to ancient times, let’s do yoga together, off the grid awhile.
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Treasures
I happened to see this botanical art, a pink anemone flower! in perfect condition with tag of date range, 1900 – 1924 by Belgian artist PJ Redoute, at a flea market today, also have enjoyed local antique shops recently. The photo shows a glimmer of reflection in the room at night with lamplight; outside this…
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Sunday Look
I made my new to read books more subtle and blending in with the rest…💕 Starting the day with a special gift in the packaging much anticipated, to be opened and shown. The drum roll feel? I am considering just what I will do with it. 🤔💕💕 ☕️ Also time for tea. 😘 Peeko, me,…
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Groundhog Day and a Home Library Day of Surprises
🐱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 because I’d wanted to 😊💕📚. It was not great though overall: windy, cold, and the wind kept blowing my…
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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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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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Intermission: Poetry by W.B Yeats
Pride and Prejudice reached a point of intermission for me to enjoy a night hour of poetry from Selected Poems by W.B.Yeats. Instead of writing a review, I will read to you my favorite poem from the collection that you may listen. I liked the cover photoed in this when I found the book at…
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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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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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Listening to Poems I Wrote Together
Peeko is listening to my audio poem recordings on the speaker…😊💗💕and then his Dad came in and snapped a photo of the scene 📸 …having a relaxing night of reflection and gratitude, looking forward to tomorrow’s gifts to enjoy, hope you are having a good week… 💕—Jade
Blush of Dawn 