Tag: new york

• Happy Birthday, Patty Griffin!

  

  This is a great sky this morning for the occasion and song. Today is singer-songwriter, Patty Griffin’s birthday! Happy Birthday Patty! 💕💕🎂🍀🍀🍀🍀 You may remember I was listening to her music in January and by February I found her on tour and live in Boston that night and got tickets. You can watch her live…

  03/16/2023 2:17 pm

  ancestry, angelic, art, birthdays, blues, childhood, family history, folk, healing, heavenly, irish, jazz, massachusetts, music, new york, patty griffin, singer-songwriters, spirituality, uplifting, womens month

• The Vices of the Evening by Charles Simic

  I’d enjoyed so very soon the concise, often comedic poetry of the author Charles Simic, a poet who recently passed away last week; many prayers and blessings and poetry readings: here is one… The Vices of the Evening by Charles Simic The way the light and shadow Go on with their tug-of-war While the night…

  01/20/2023 1:32 pm

  21st century, art, charles simic, light, new hampshire, new york, night, poetry, poets

• 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

  art, creative process, english education, english literature, handwritten letters, healing, home, lovingkindness, massachusetts, memoir, morningtime, my first novel, my photography, new york, peeko, poetic, snow, sunrise, teatime, writing theory, yoga

• My Short Story Printed and Ready, and an Author from Mississipi

  I had started writing my novel, which will be a longer length project, but I have been kind of following my desire and writing poems and this “gift” story in between. As I had written previously that I was writing a “secret story” to be given to someone as a gift at my family’s Christmas…

  12/22/2022 4:30 pm

  britney spears, brooklyn, christmas, creativity, gifts, gratitude, holidays, library, memoir, Mississippi, new york, novels, positivity, secrets, uplifting, writers, writing process

• Birthdays, Birthdays!, A Literary Salon Day, and ‘The Marching In’

  

  I awoke to the very lightest touch of blush in the dawn sky; it was seen only by looking more closely. It is Tuesday night and in recent weeks there has been lots of fun with paintings or pictures, a free sketch one night in my blank sketchbook from imagination, and painting from my imagination…

  03/01/2022 8:33 pm

  18th century, 19th century, 20th century, ameen rihani, birthdays, boston, colorado, creative process, edna st. vincent millay, egypt, england, english literature, f. max muller, home, jane austen, lebanon, literary salon we keep, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my birthday, my mystical experiences, my photography, narrative, nature, new york, novels, peeko, poetic, poetry, poets, sky, spirituality, willa cather, writing process, writing theory, yoga

• Happy Birthday, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 130 yrs!

  

  Here’s a poem Edna St. Vincent Millay (b. 1892) wrote…from her book Collected Poems called “To Elinor Wylie.” It’s a series poem containing sections (six), full of sonnet and one in the middle. I read it aloud in the morning fog today on Edna’s birthday Feb. 22, 130 yrs earth. This sky of rose was…

  02/22/2022 12:15 pm

  20th century, birthday, edna st. vincent millay, gratitude, literary salon we keep, maine, meditate, meditation, morningtime, my photography, new york, new york city, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poetry forms, poetry read aloud by me, poets, sky, sonnet, sun

• My Story Behind “Jasmine and Jewels”

  

  (in my private collection) The still life painting, “Jasmine and Jewels” I completed, I’d been working on around the time of the medieval poet, Rumi’s birthday at the end of September from a sketch I’d drawn maybe weeks before. I’d shared a couple of favorite poems Rumi had written near his birthday, Sept. 30th ’21,…

  12/02/2021 4:07 pm

  20th century, 21st century, art, boston, catholic, creative process, english literature, fruit, garden, gratitude, medieval era, memoir, memoir stories, my art, my photography, nature, new york, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry three, poets, rumi, spirituality, writing process

• A Rightfully Edna’s Moon Celebration

  

  This blog, Blush of Dawn’s ”original re-start up poet,” Edna St. Vincent Millay, Maine, New England-born author, b. Feb. 22, 1892 celebrates a Pisces moon today! (And I, too share this remembered moon.) 🌜 Just in time as the moon will soon move to Aries, I will share a favorite poem of hers from ones…

  11/14/2021 1:15 pm

  20th century, boston, brooklyn, edna st. vincent millay, english literature, fairies, gratitude, maine, memoir stories, moon, nature, new york, new york city, peeko, poetry, poetry books, poetry forms, poets, reading, sonnet, spirituality, wellness, writing process

• What A Day Could Do, How Fun It Was…Continued

  

  I don’t feel so great, so I listen to my Party playlist on shuffle, without the party or the dancing, just an everyday stroll kind of walk. I use natural New York variable speed walking moves to avoid all people for consideration even though I pass none, and find an open field…where my back begins…

  10/01/2021 4:45 pm

  angels, fairies, faith, food, garden, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, moon, new york, poetic, poets, rumi, sky, spirituality, sun, yoga

• Starting The Week with A Heart Back Intact and Plenty of Soulful Imaginings

  

  Hearing my audio poems; sometimes he’s a very fluffy bunny, and sometimes a slightly violent teddybear. Peeko’s Moon and a Pulitzer Prize Winning Author, Truly Wise Book of Poems Over the weekend, Peeko sat by the book The Moon Before Morning like ’Read me more of these poems; it’s my moon!’ He is a Scorpio.…

  09/13/2021 1:08 pm

  20th century, 21st century, arabic, art, book reflection, book review, books, catholic, dreams, egypt, french, home, italy, lebanon, library, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, michigan, moon, my dreams, new york, new york city, novels, peeko, philosophy, poetry, poetry books, poets, reading, video, w.s. merwin

• May’s Letters of Earthly Life Past

  

  Note: Not positive of the diary’s authorship, as two translation sources found not enough to determine. Putting aside for now, ’though references to writing and pen make me think it’s probably from May’s diary. I’ve also added a last writing newfound to me today. (10/23/21) 1920 May Ziadeh to Kahlil Gibran Mai wrote to Jabran…

  09/12/2021 7:10 am

  20th century, catholic, egypt, Kahlil gibran, letters, literary salon we keep, may ziadeh, new york, new york city, philosophy, poetic, poets, reading, sky, spirituality

• You May Now Have a Strawberry and Hand-Picked Poetry

  

  6:32 pm: Tuesday’s note actually appears There it is, the strawberry I’d offered you that is now ripe and ready to eat; the plants are safely secured, not swinging in a possible storm, and it happens to have two other surprise strawberries with it to ripen later—Here, enjoy it! And this is my review I’d…

  08/24/2021 6:32 pm

  20th century, 21st century, book reflection, book review, creative process, edna st. vincent millay, fairies, food, french, garden, memoir, memoir stories, moon, morning, my photography, new york, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, reading, writing process