Tag: night

• Aromatherapy Night Sky Surprise

  

  January 25, 2023 People may respond differently to different herbs; this cat was loving it. 💕💕 —Peeko says, “But don’t take my Jane.” He enjoys classic books of literary style, often with portraits on the cover. This afternoon after yoga, I tried glueing the square of fabric I’d kept, which I’d been saving, when I […]

  01/25/2023 1:30 pm

  gifts, gratitude, handwritten, herbs, memoir, night, philosophy, poetic, sky

• “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 […]

  01/24/2023 6:03 am

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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 […]

  01/23/2023 12:11 pm

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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

  01/22/2023 8:14 pm

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• Yoga Night

  

  January 19, 2023 with my painting and books

  01/21/2023 1:34 pm

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• 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

• Why All the Sagittarius Birthday Wishes?: A Reflection on Self and Soul

  There is something I found last year, and although I am not serious about astrology as if it were a religion to me, I enjoy the patterns it suggests in life as a kind of artwork. I find it very accurate in many ways. I had found in my life great, deep healing in the […]

  01/20/2023 1:31 pm

  art, artists, birthdays, brooklyn, home, italy, love, massachusetts, may ziadeh, memoir, mourning, night, philosophy, poets, self reflection, soulmates, spirituality

• 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. […]

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• dream of a home with the lights out

  a man wanders into my dream; i sit up from the floor and say, “i just fainted.” he looks at me and says, “what?” his dog bounces around on the leash lunging at glimmers of light in the dark room. “can you turn on the light, please?” i continue, “i am afraid.” he says, “you […]

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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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 […]

  01/17/2023 6:03 am

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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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• A Leaf Composition

  

  a sketch from imagination, arranging leaves for abstract practice, pocket book December 29, 2022. 💕—Jade

  12/29/2022 7:09 pm

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• #9

  our eyes met with a smile a hill was nearby and conveniently so you would walk up and turn and face me I would note this instantly so I would look up

  12/21/2022 8:03 pm

  allusion, beauty, gratitude, my haiku and tanka project, my poetry, night, poetry, short verse, tanka, uplifting

• 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

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• “Note”

  poem read aloud for your listen Note by Jade Nicole Beals The dark does not hide what I would like to see A still star is still prettier than a shooting star, despite the rarities in science. Fireworks in the sky as a display are not a thing I’ve sought out after, but there is […]

  12/20/2022 6:03 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

• In the Midst of Christmas Lights

  

  🎄Christmas lights are set up at La Salette in Massachusetts.✨✨The whole place is decorated this way and with art made by hand; it is beautiful to walk through at night, and the display returns each year.🎄✨💕It’s the kind of place you can go to again in a season and appreciate different things you may have […]

  12/15/2022 11:40 am

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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 […]

  12/14/2022 9:18 pm

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• …*

  

  💕—Jade

  12/14/2022 5:09 pm

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• Get the Party Started and then Welcome Relaxation

  

  Besides sketching with pencils at the library, yoga arm balance against the wall is great fun, for an evening lift you up and then an eventual release of energy from the whole day—a quick hold, come down slowly, just a few, and then to relax, and to recline. 🙂 💕Jade

  12/13/2022 7:16 pm

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• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  

  (my own photo) The most moving novel I’ve read this year, and the most recent one I’ve added to my own home library. Song of Solomon (1977) had been a favorite of mine around the year 2004, and somehow I could not remember anything about it at all but that I had read it and […]

  12/12/2022 6:57 pm

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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 […]

  12/11/2022 4:54 pm

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• Writing My First Novel, A Glimpse of Thoughts on a Special Object Unnamed

  Home now. 🙂 Words written by hand tonight in my notebook for this novel, not typed up yet, just a free write that will be rephrased as part of an active scene to be written, which involve two main characters, and how they each feel or react to this same interesting object. I also wrote […]

  12/09/2022 8:43 pm

  art, fantasy, love, magic realism, my first novel, night, philosophy, sensual, writer events, writing process

• A ‘Lost’ Recipe Found and Made for Dinner, Delicious

  

  (my photo) I am not an 👩‍🍳official chef, but I cook plenty, and I made this Armenian-Lebanese dinner tonight. I am happy with the creativity you can find in cooking and wanted to share some. I’d heard of this meal sometime ago on a list, a rare or forgotten Armenian-Lebanese dinner recipe…It involves lightly stir-fried […]

  12/08/2022 7:37 pm

  armenia, artists, creativity, dinner recipes, food, lebanon, lovingkindness, my photography, night, recipes, relaxation, therapeutic, wellness

• 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, […]

  12/05/2022 10:00 pm

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• “Resonance”

  by Jade Nicole Beals How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed. I want to kiss as a practice. If you wish to. How did I find this video again? I practice the dance; I must try it again. I go to the mall to buy a […]

  12/02/2022 10:55 pm

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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 […]

  12/01/2022 10:19 am

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• My Pick from the List, and My Complaint

  November 31, 2022 I picked from my list: I wanted to paint; it was looking beautiful; I had no concept beforehand, and I saw a look I liked from the start. But then I kept adding and adding and I found a concept at that point, with a tone of a color I’d added but […]

  12/01/2022 6:43 am

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• Bedtime Story: Raindrops

  …There are little raindrops on the window that I can hear; I have just brushed my teeth, combed my hair, washed my face, patted it dry, placed on moisturizer with my fingertips moving in little, soft circles, and I am all ready for bed. The raindrops sound more like pearls on a woman’s neck than […]

  11/28/2022 8:58 am

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• An Idea for Pressed Flowers and Nature Collectors

  

  November 27, 2022 I was spending the end of the day and night in heavenly company, when I was doing yoga on the wall, with breaks in between to read Jane Eyre, I found a little tree bark, preserved, oh my guest 🙂 may have noted these pressed flowers or leaves with a hint of […]

  11/27/2022 8:09 pm

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• Peeko’s Puffy Kitten Face, A Couple of New Art Supplies

  

  A rainy Sunday evening: my fine art collector and curator,🐱Peeko viewing again my latest drawing I finished yesterday before it is placed inside an art folder for safekeeping. I was careful not to hold it too close to the kitten. He made a little tiny grunt of delight as he looked into one little part […]

  11/27/2022 6:30 pm

  art, art education, art supplies, drawing, gratitude, my photography, night, peeko

• I Begin a New Drawing

  

  Thanksgiving update: I just woke from a long morningtime nap, sun on my face, so refreshing; my drawing in progress came to mind. This is what it has been so far 🙂 In progress drawing, first session. (My small paper yesterday came to be a practice paper.) I draw the imagined scene now on 9 […]

  11/24/2022 10:00 am

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• Re: Deleted Posts, Dear Reader

  I was reading after dark last night by my library window, lamplight, I started with this nursery rhyme of my own… ‘I sit quietly in this chair, I will comb through my hair, and I will read Jane Eyre.’ I am sorry for these pretty hastily deleted posts; I remind myself writing is free, and in […]

  11/24/2022 8:11 am

  books, charlotte bronte, classics, fashion, fun, home, letters, lounge, night, novels, philosophy, poetic, reading, relaxation, rhyme, sadness, writers, writing theory

• My Novel’s Progress Today, A Place to Pause for Now

  

  Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 (blushing night skies receive my kisses) I consider what we may think others might expect from us and that we may be happier to surprise everyone naturally and pleasurably in writing or doing something, such as a novel, as you yourself find most interesting to write and read… …I’ve started writing […]

  11/23/2022 10:07 am

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• A Very Cute Blue Cookie

  

  A poetic line came to mind just before I met the NaNoWriMo writers tonight…It brought me to the more center place in my story’s theme, as I was getting myself thrown into a corner before that in my draft. I told a little visual from my own draft to relate to the other writers’ stories. […]

  11/18/2022 8:47 pm

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• Peeko Poses

  

  Peeko waves hello to the blog, with modesty and affection… This is the view I’ve begun to draw him from in my pocket sketchbook…. This was my first sketch of Peeko I drew from life in August; I will continue the new drawing tmrw, as it’s now time for bed. 🙂 Also tomorrow (Fri, Nov. […]

  11/17/2022 9:17 pm

  fun, memoir, my photography, night, novels, peeko, writer events, writers

• pocket verse: haiku and tanka

  Each are separate poems all written in the same couple of days —Jade Nicole Beals * 1 I’ve changed all the locks I still love you 2 my cat naps he snores like soft weeping my tears, but l don’t know our reason 3 the soft, plush vacuumed rug I notice so much more in […]

  11/17/2022 8:47 am

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