Tag: ocean

• “Another Water”

  by Jade Nicole Beals (first written Jul. 9, ‘22) Could stop you as if with a kiss. You said you’d seen your heart like ice— I’d found it like sweet ice, essentially fruit, melting into renewed strength. I’ve thought of you as pure onyx, an emerald afire, glowing the whole sunset hour, cooling in the […]

  09/29/2022 1:45 pm

  beauty, friendship, love, music, my poetry, ocean, poets

• …Storybook Yoga with Monet

  

  (Monet and his paintings, 1923, colorized, credit: openculture) After awhile of living and painting many garden lily pond scenes outside his home in France, the artist Claude Monet became enthralled with the ocean. He wanted to paint it as he saw it and would get as close to it as possible with his paintbrush and […]

  07/29/2022 9:24 am

  art history, artists, france, fun, leaving space, monet, narrative, non-fiction, nonfiction books, ocean, philosophy, poetic, taking flight, vacation time, yoga

• Eyes by May Ziadeh

  

  (complete July 5, 2022) I came across this poem in Italian I’d originally found in Spanish as an excerpt. The poem “Eyes” (or “Occhi”) was written by May Ziadeh (in Italian or Spanish) most likely in the 1900s before 1941 (author b. 1886). May also wrote and published in French, Arabic, English, and German, and […]

  07/05/2022 9:15 am

  20th century, anaphora, beauty, dreams, english, italian, literary salon we keep, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, nature, ocean, philosophy, poetry, poets, secrets, sky, spanish, translations, writings by may ziadeh

• Books and Art: Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi, Kahlil Gibran Scare, and My Creative Plan for the Day

  

  I do this too…(I liked finding this illustrated at The Boston Fine Arts Museum, my own photo of this artwork I saw there)…with my silver aluminum water canteen and poetry book, and a rock to sit on. Friday, May 27th, 2022 Sifting Through for the Best of Rumi I think I’d really confused and worked […]

  05/28/2022 7:24 am

  17th century, 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, abstract expressionism, arab renaissance, art, art museum, artists, azima melita kolin, beach, books, boston, bruce degen, childrens books, classics, creative process, egypt, english, english literature, french, garden, home, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, library, longing, love, may ziadeh, medieval era, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, music, my photography, narrative, nature, new york city, novels, ocean, philosophy, poems of may ziadeh, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, psychology, reading, rumi, sketch, soulmates, spirituality, tea, wellness, yoga

• My Own Home Design: A Place to Create Art and Rest

  The library corner…complete! With Monet’s “Flower Beds” painting on canvas displayed by my reading chair. … I didn’t think this book would be laugh out loud funny, but I am still smiling when I think of a certain little story—Monet getting cranky with his own art failures and one day hiring cooks to make him […]

  02/23/2022 11:28 am

  20th century, angels, art, books, boston, creative process, finances, garden, home, impressionism, interior design, library, massachusetts, memoir stories, monet, moon, morningtime, my photography, narrative, nature, new england, nonfiction books, ocean, peeko, reading, van gogh, wellness, writing process

• Mornings at the Sea

  

  “Mornings at the Sea“ Jade Nicole Beals Happily SOLD. Jan. 17, 2022 12 W” x 9” H

  01/17/2022 3:57 pm

  abstract, abstract expressionism, beach, gratitude, morningtime, my art, ocean, sky, sun

• 7!

  

  a recent photo luxuriously flaunting his longness… Peeko knew it was his birthday today as soon as dawn’s waking, he ran! into the bedroom (instead of walking) as I was awakening and looked up at me with great attention and excitement, and with a hint of baby sweetness, and then he leapt onto the new […]

  11/08/2021 7:03 pm

  20th century, arabic, art, beach, boston, brooklyn, classical, classical music, creative process, edna st. vincent millay, home, memoir, memoir stories, moon, morning, music, my photography, my sister, narrative, new york city, ocean, peeko, poets, sky, tea, writing process

• Halloween on The “Blush of Dawn” Boat

  

  The secret to the kicks? The picture on the package of the wig was just perfect, with purple but also some bright blush, fitting the costume idea for the Blush of Dawn boat on sea, but when I opened up the package and put the wig on—There was no blush! 😠 * Earlier today: The […]

  10/29/2021 7:19 pm

  21st century, english literature, films, halloween, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, ocean, poetry books, poets, reading, sky

• A Sweet, Refreshing Beginning…

  

  The literary salon begins with some blush… Yesterday afternoon, ‘Rumi’ black tea in a glass with a splash of almond milk. Autumn begins tomorrow…🍂😊 I send you my morning wishes and return to the salon with a cup of green tea and glimpsing the sky between sips as its colors lighten and merge… * Today […]

  09/21/2021 8:10 am

  19th century, 20th century, 21st century, beach, boston, catholic, egypt, french, literary salon we keep, may ziadeh, melody gardot, memoir, memoir stories, morning, music, my photography, ocean, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poetry by may ziadeh, poets, rumi, sky, spirituality, tea, writings by may ziadeh

• Tuesday At The Literary Salon, May’s House

  Were they drinking rose syrup in their coffee at those literary gatherings, maybe in Egypt, or was it a choice between rose syrup and coffee? Well, this is a question I wondered and typed into the search. I think some people might have chosen coffee and maybe put rose syrup in theirs too. It is […]

  06/22/2021 9:33 pm

  20th century, beach, may ziadeh, ocean, philosophy, poetic, poets, spirituality

• Mirrors

  This post has been updated on 5/31/21: This poem was tagged as being by May Ziadeh, but like a lot of poems from the past that have been translated, there can be misinformation and sometimes the wrong author is credited. Since I’ve gotten pretty far into May’s first book of poems Dream Flowers, I decided to do […]

  05/12/2021 2:46 pm

  20th century, music, ocean, poets

• The Waves Rolled In…

  This picture shows the copy I got from the library but it is on my wishlist as a book to keep. “The waves rolled in…and now come rushing in…with water luminescent as sea glass, stirring the far off, softest sand and what lies in between…”  This is not a quote from the book, but the start […]

  04/05/2021 2:29 pm

  20th century, moon, music, my photography, novels, ocean, poetry, poetry books, virginia woolf

• “Deep Blue”

  A great stormy…starlit…cloudy sky…oceanside song, “Deep Blue” featuring the singer-songwriter, Lisa Hannigan I have mentioned.  I took a double take when I saw the moon through the window; it has been awhile, and then it retreated again behind a soft cloud. (I also want to mention this blog is searchable if you want to find […]

  02/24/2021 12:21 am

  lisa hannigan, music, ocean

• Summer Drifts In

  I will hold all the wonder close to my heart, listen close to my ears, warm this winter body with sunlight, I can do winter, can be well in winter, can like the cold waterfall air, place the cuff of my sleeve to my nose a moment when air is deadly cold and dry, and […]

  02/07/2021 2:39 pm

  music, ocean, poetic