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• Yoga Night

  

  January 19, 2023 with my painting and books

  01/21/2023 1:34 pm

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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…

  01/20/2023 7:28 pm

  britney spears, brooklyn, dance music, fashion, holidays, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, massachusetts, meditation, meditative, memoir stories, mindfulness, music, my photography, peeko, relaxation, rest, retreat, self reflection, wellness, yellow claw

• Bitter is the New Black

  

  a book for the local book club…

  01/20/2023 4:52 pm

  21st century, books, fun, handmade, home, jen lancaster, library, massachusetts, my photography, peeko

• 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…

  01/20/2023 4:52 pm

  healing, heavenly, justin bieber, love, lovingkindness, morningtime, my photography, peeko, poetic, retreat, silence, sky, spa, wellness

• “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.)

  01/20/2023 1:31 pm

  fairies, fairytale, fashion, fun, love, memoir, my photography, not my door, not my door series, self portraits, self reflection, selfie, sunset

• 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,…

  01/20/2023 1:20 pm

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• Sun Shower

  

  $440. “Sun Shower” by Jade Nicole Beals, January 17, 2023, 24 L x 18 W acrylic on wrapped canvas. A warm, summer rain with plenty of light and color.

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

  abstract, abstract expressionism, abstract landscape, art, beauty, home, interior design, literary salon we keep, lovingkindness, morningtime, my art, my photography, nature, positivity, spirituality, sun, supportive, uplifting, water

• 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…

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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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…

  01/12/2023 10:43 am

  art, beauty, creative process, creativity, food, fruits, fun, gifts, inspiring, love, lovingkindness, memoir, mindfulness, music, my photography, new york city, peeko, poetic, positivity, psychology, relaxation, rest, silence, uplifting, vacation, vacation time, water, wellness, wisdom

• Author at Work

  

  I’ve decided to work on my novel each day for about the five day week, myself immersed in the events and characters consistently, toward completion but enjoying this all. It’s in the Fantasy genre, Young Adult. And I am free to skip days. I will be starting a new painting soon, so I can alternate…

  01/03/2023 6:17 am

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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…

  01/02/2023 6:39 pm

  catholic, home, lovingkindness, massachusetts, memoir, my photography, peeko, poetry, poets, portraits, relaxation, supportive

• 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…

  01/02/2023 1:04 pm

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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,…

  01/01/2023 8:29 pm

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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?

  01/01/2023 2:47 pm

  beauty, holidays, home, massachusetts, memoir stories, my photography, nature, peeko, self portraits, self-care, supportive, wellness

• Lounging in My Library, Listening to the Rain…

  

  —A butterscotch creme brulee hair tie. Happy New Year! —💕Jade

  12/31/2022 3:05 pm

  books, fairies, fashion, holidays, home, love, lovingkindness, meditative, memoir, my photography, poetic, relaxation, retreat, self portraits, silence

• 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…

  12/31/2022 9:28 am

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• Best Bath Tips for Relaxation and Favorite Spa Fruit (with photos)

  

  For the new year…treat yourself extra good, especially if you are, for example, an artist, and no one but you may let you know it is time for your vacation…now 🙂 I recommend no phone in the bath though, this was an exception. 🙂 Cucumber slices for eyes, a few moments, eat a few, let…

  12/30/2022 2:41 pm

  artists, bath, beauty, fruit, holidays, my photography, relaxation, self portraits, self-care, sensual, vacation, yoga

• About the Lines You May Edit out of Your Poems

  

  —💕your very own, Peeko Part of revising a poem is often taking out lines that seem like they don’t belong. In a recent poem I’d completed, I’d taken out a whole stanza that involved wrapping the recipient or subject of the poem in a blanket…It was a comfy idea, but really felt out of place,…

  12/29/2022 7:11 pm

  my photography, peeko, poetry, poets, relaxation, writing process

• A Daydream in February

  

  February 22, 2021 Repeating this…:) Jade

  12/29/2022 1:27 pm

  dreams, lovingkindness, meditative, my dreams, my photography, relaxation, self portraits

• 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

  12/26/2022 11:33 am

  birthdays, fun, george winston, holidays, memoir stories, michigan, music, my photography, peeko, uplifting

• 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…

  12/23/2022 6:17 pm

  angels, beauty, books, hafiz, holidays, interior design, love, melancholic, music, my photography, peeko, poetry, poets, sadness, spirituality, supportive

• Songs for Storms

  

  💞🎶 💖💖

  12/23/2022 4:27 pm

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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…

  12/22/2022 9:37 am

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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…

  12/21/2022 5:14 pm

  books, catholic, charles dickens, dreams, fairies, fairytale, gratitude, interior design, love, lovingkindness, memoir stories, my photography, night, peeko, short stories, vacation

• 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…

  12/19/2022 10:41 am

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• A Glam Christmas Party

  

  And no one is taking pictures yet? Well I took a few of myself. 😊💕 I got these sparkly pants today and the pink and gold belt too for this occasion, and with a light, black open sweater. I decided to see it as a “dress up” party, with some spontaneous theme for myself. I…

  12/17/2022 9:15 pm

  angels, fashion, fun, holidays, italian, italy, massachusetts, memoir, my photography, night, self portraits, uplifting

• A Poetry Reading: 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 couple of prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. “Acknowledgment” “As If I Had Been The Harp Then and the Hidden Music” “Dhakeeyun” 🙂 Enjoy, 💕—Jade

  12/16/2022 1:32 pm

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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…

  12/16/2022 11:22 am

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• “Pride”

  I wrote this poem using the text of Pride and Prejudice posted on December 16, 2022, Jane Austen’s birthday. A “collage poem” with some lines from the text and my own words. “Pride” by Jade Nicole Beals Giving over? Giving up? I’ll never be sensible to the extreme. Surpass the rest? Like a thrill, not…

  12/16/2022 6:44 am

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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…

  12/15/2022 2:40 pm

  books, fun, home, home library, library, memoir stories, my photography

• 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…

  12/14/2022 9:18 pm

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• …*

  

  💕—Jade

  12/14/2022 5:09 pm

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