Tag: peeko

• 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 today because I’d wanted to 😊💕📚. It was not great though overall: windy, cold, and the wind kept blowing […]

  02/02/2023 4:13 pm

  art, birthdays, drawing, england, fun, gifts, gratitude, jane austen, lovingkindness, massachusetts, memoir stories, morningtime, music, my home library, my photography, nature, novels, ocean, peeko, positivity, reading, relaxation, retreat, secret, susan cooper, therapeutic, uplifting, vacation time

• 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 […]

  02/01/2023 7:47 pm

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• Submitting My Paintings to the Boston Arts Museum and Writing My Novel

  

  🐱Peeko with my white jasmine flower art (not one I’d submitted) Today I entered a couple of my own original paintings into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition for Abstract Art. They could accept one or more to display at the Museum, and they would also be up for sale there during that time! […]

  01/23/2023 3:18 pm

  art, art events, art museum, artists, birthdays, boston, gratitude, home, libraries, massachusetts, museums, my first novel, peeko, writers, writing process

• 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

  gratitude, my photography, night, peeko, poetry, portraits, relaxation, rest, retreat

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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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

• 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

• 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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• 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

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• 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

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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

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• Poet Keith Waldrop, Postmodern poems, Fantasy and Modern Art

  

  (this photo is from last year around this time; ‘my poetry cat’ Peeko was very pleased with this book.) Like poet Christina Rossetti, I found poet Keith Waldrop’s latest poetry book, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy last year just discovered by me on the poetry shelf at the Foxboro Library; I was delighted to find out […]

  12/12/2022 3:07 pm

  avante garde, birthdays, book reflection, book review, english education, english literature, fantasy, keith waldrop, library, minimalism, new england, peeko, poetry books, poets, postmoderm, rhode island

• Peeko Posing on the Window, “Mountain Peak” Displayed in Room

  

  I may joke that my cat Peeko 🐱 is the ‘art curator,’ and that he will take your ticket with his paw to see my artwork on display, but he really does notice and appreciate my artwork, some more than others… Peeko admiring my latest painting on his own; (this is not a cat who […]

  12/12/2022 1:18 pm

  abstract, abstract expressionism, abstract landscape, home, interior design, my photography, peeko, positivity, uplifting

• Care Cat, Teddie, and the Moon and Stars Pocket

  

  …🐱Peeko and 🧸Teddie, ‘This is a very serious meeting’ a highly confidential meeting at the coffee table. 🙂 Peeko looks like he is trying to copy Teddie’s stance, and with his own classic ‘Peeko pout’ for effect. You might have read about my wellness replenishment index cards post I wrote, for artists or anyone who […]

  12/11/2022 6:28 pm

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• My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future

  

  Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a […]

  12/05/2022 10:10 am

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• Peeko’s Backpack?

  

  …A poetry backpack for my cat Peeko whom I am currently schooling in subjects of his choice, but no, I didn’t get it. 😊 💞📚😊🐱Put in an Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry volume: her lighter and more silly sarcastic rhymes and sonnets, a William Shakespeare play, Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady, and any metered […]

  12/02/2022 9:54 pm

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• 1…2….3…4! Literary Salons Today, Tuesday

  November 29, 2022 …And this cat is ready for nighttime relaxation; he picks and chooses where and what he will attend and what he will read…at home…We await his full results from the vet to receive this week; he seems contented and eating well. *** A Tip For Book Lovers who Like Baths: If you […]

  11/29/2022 8:57 am

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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

• So Relaxing

  

  I completed my latest drawing this evening! “So Relaxing” by Jade Nicole Beals, Nov. 26, 2022, graphite pencils on paper, surreal still life imagined. You may notice different things: a bowl of cereal with a spoon, a checkered scarf or throw blanket, a fluffed bedtime pillow, throw pillow, a small throw rug, a pot of […]

  11/27/2022 3:54 pm

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• Classics Cat, Painted Jane Eyre, with Music by Justin Bieber

  

  …this literary scholar and fine art collector cat smiles at the Readers… —😽😎🐱Peeko 🎶🎶… and becomes a very plush, emotional cat as he loves when I am reading a many-paged classic novel, and he may like it himself for me to be reading, if he would pick, he loves relaxation, and when I am relaxing […]

  11/24/2022 10:13 pm

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• 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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• A New Drawing I Am Working On of An Imagined Scene

  

  …Monday Plan meals for the list, write shopping list (I missed my season for plums, oops. :). Buy other foods. Drawing I found this single sheet of drawing paper in my printer drawer as I await my drawing pad to arrive soon. I am creating a surreal scene, I have a hard charcoal pencil that […]

  11/21/2022 10:13 pm

  art, drawing, home, lovingkindness, meditation, memoir stories, my photography, peeko, surrealism, uplifting

• Pocket Peeko

  

  Pocket Peeko by Jade Nicole Beals, graphite pencil drawing November 18, 2022 in pocket sketchbook. In the meantime, as I’ve been waiting to receive my bigger-sized drawing paper pad, I created this pocket Peeko in a pocket sketchbook, a sketchbook I’ve almost completed. 🙂 When I showed Peeko my completed drawing, he looked calmly at […]

  11/19/2022 11:05 am

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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

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• 232

  Nov. 17, 2022 I want to reserve my 2 pocket sketchbooks almost complete for in the moment sketches like a scene or thing drawn outside home also known as a field sketch. I would like to draw Peeko. He is napping now against my pink sweatshirt I was just wearing, I got another; his breathing […]

  11/17/2022 2:32 pm

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• Living Room Lamp, Lounge

  

  💕—Peeko

  11/14/2022 11:09 am

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• Fashionable by Nature

  

  Your very own, 💕—Peeko

  11/11/2022 10:15 pm

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• Words Arranged, Well, These…

  

  night and almost morningtime (continues) What if this book I am reading could be done and I can close it and move onto a new one? Is it fair I judge the book by the author’s name and opening sentence, if it’s a pen-name too? Only teasing a little, but the novel is just a […]

  11/10/2022 5:48 am

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• Blush of Dawn, Windowseat Yesterday

  

  Two photos from Peeko’s blush of dawn morning, just as I’d awoken

  11/09/2022 7:22 am

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• The Birthday Cat Wakes Up to Greet, Blog Show Part 2

  🎈Sorry, this is kind of like a Rugrats Parents thing 😂; but I was a little bit scattered some months and better mindful now, you can find my sketch of Peeko here. He’s been purring all this afternoon. Jade

  11/08/2022 4:29 pm

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• Happy Birthday Blog Bash for My Cat Peeko and A 2nd Blog Show

  https://youtu.be/YWj35QSw_0A from Jade Nicole Beals Channel.

  11/08/2022 2:42 pm

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• The Pearls: a fantasy fiction Novel, and a Cat with a Very Fluffy Belly, not to Touch

  

  My cat Peeko has been so interested in expanding his skillset since he started schooling with me, and was a little disappointed in himself just a moment ago when he was interested in green grapes, and wanted to eat one, but also instinct didn’t; he licked his mouth as he glanced away. I told him […]

  11/06/2022 7:58 pm

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