Tag: philosophy

• 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

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• Self Portrait Yoga in the Sun

  

  01/25/2023 10:40 am

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂 […]

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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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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• 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

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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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• May Ziadeh, a Biography by Jade Nicole Beals

  

  July 21, 2022 (completed Jan. 2023) featured photo, Miss May A biography I wrote about the author, May Ziadeh, an author I’ve written of often on the blog, with biographical facts, and immersive writings in my own experiences beginning in May 2021. At the end, a summary and reflection of the book My Life With […]

  01/10/2023 10:11 am

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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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• 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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• 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

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• A Book of Essays on My Bookshelf for Years Unread—Read Today

  Reading Collected Essays by George Orwell, a book I’ve had on my shelf for many years, it was a gift from my sister one year, that I’d not wanted to read each time I’d picked it up over many years, but also did not give it away, it had felt like ‘for another time’, and […]

  12/05/2022 3:35 pm

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• Happy Birthday, Britney! (A Literary and Art History and Present Day Post)

  My December 2nd post rewritten as you’ll read on… :): The last I remember, I was writing yesterday evening about the phrase a “New York minute” and expressing I would like to slow down, in my amended post to wish Britney a happy birthday from the post of December 2nd, and somehow half the night […]

  12/05/2022 12:53 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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• “This Ring”

  

  (my own photo of the moon in a blushing morning sky in Massachusetts) This was my first poem I’d written and published online in 2022: The first of form poems I tried to write this year is a ghazal, and it’s fit well with that form having originated in the Middle East during the medieval […]

  11/29/2022 5:32 pm

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• A Letter between author May Ziadeh and Friend, with My Own Line of Literary Critique

  an excerpt from Intimate Pages, Part Two, with dedication to her friend Sidonie Ripperger, in May’s first book of poetry in French, Fleurs de Reve, Flowers of a Dream: …You end your letter by complaining that you are a young girl, not a young man. You are a little right; women have been called “the […]

  11/28/2022 8:33 pm

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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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• 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

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• “The Law”

  November 21, 2022 A new poem in a style of summary or hypothetical; you may notice the style (somewhat inspired by the allegorical humor of artist and poet Kahlil Gibran). This poem was inspired but the subject of “law” and is about a real incident in the recent past recalled of leaving a book of […]

  11/21/2022 7:08 am

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• Where?

  I am seeing time moving forward in days, weeks, and months, rather than as a single day with few hours, so I just keep writing my novel as much as I would like to each week, and time continues replenishing on its own… That leaves me at 2928 words to rest the whole weekend, a […]

  11/19/2022 6:57 pm

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• tending

  if there’s too much algae in this lake my hands will tend to that to pull out what is not in one’s heart, not possible, thankfully in love, we move afloat in a dance anyway

  11/15/2022 9:48 am

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• change

  love me less and expect nothing the volcano says it’s not going to erupt, and so it doesn’t the great lake shrinks into a paper cup yeah right; the lake still thrives from here Jade

  11/15/2022 9:27 am

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• My Books

  

  November 12, 2022 I arranged them nicely and now I actually wish to read a book when I go in. And I have 2 books I gifted to myself on the way, soon…:) 💕Jade P.S. Oops 🙂 I have a couple of things to fix…The angel has no bookend next to her on one side […]

  11/12/2022 11:41 am

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• Re: Body and Mind

  …If your mind is boring you, enter the physical body and atmosphere: put on an outfit you feel like wearing, adjust the clothes comfortably, moisturize, tie a soft hair tie around your hair, notice it didn’t come as a finished ring, and position the tie around your hair, tightly and loosely, comb loose strands with […]

  11/11/2022 7:27 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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• “Dhakeeyun”

  OCTOBER 23, 2022 As a quick, clear comprehension of something deep that’s been spoken. The title “Keys” I’d first wrote was similar, and even in the singular, the “key” still sounds to me like something is locked up and irretrievable, which is the opposite of what I’d meant to express. In this poem, it’s “no […]

  10/23/2022 7:09 pm

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• The Culprit

  

  I took this photo trying to figure out why I’ve felt so restless and like I can’t just enjoy looking at these trees in my window from my home or stretching as I’d like without a camera capturing me in this moment of plank pose with the colors of trees that have very high goals, […]

  10/14/2022 11:18 am

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• May Ziadeh’s ‘Green Hut’ in the Wood, Her Preface to a Favorite Book I Came Across

  * These words just held me…I didn’t realize the book, translated as Smiles and Tears by May Ziadeh that I was reading in PDF form today was the book titled Memories or German Love, by F. Max Muller that I’d seen cited as a book she’d translated; I’ve read the book in English. And I […]

  10/07/2022 8:00 am

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• “The Pinnacle”

  by Jade Nicole Beals There was a plea from you to forget the scales as the music fell from all around you, and little cue notes drifted into my sleep, like windows in my dreams looking out, and you smiling through you as you know you are the dream come true, the scales returning to […]

  09/24/2022 12:29 pm

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• An Art Gallery Weekend, A Reflection on Beauty, Luminosity, and Happiness in Art

  

  featured artists, Rich and Shana, this weekend, and me centered Saturday I spent the afternoon at the local Art Gallery and Studio and it’s been a busy, connected time with the artist friends there, and those words don’t always come together in other ways, which I love about this. I had just finished my recent […]

  09/12/2022 12:07 pm

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• Poetry Books: Goldenrod and The Book of Love, and More

  

  The title poem of Goldenrod by Maggie Smith reminds me of my time as a very novice student of nature last year. And I’m not purposely or only picking gold-colored things for the blog :), but I won’t outright deny a gold-colored thing for variety either. My brief reflection of the book: Goldenrod by Maggie Smith (2021): […]

  09/07/2022 6:38 pm

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• La Salette Shrine and Retreat Center: Talk…—and Sketch

  

  August 22, 2022 …And now it’s tomorrow, and I have two little true life stories to tell. But first, this is the setting where I am now as I tell them: I’ve just finished all of my green tea this morning from this little mug that I was going to rinse in the kitchen when […]

  08/22/2022 9:21 am

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• Two Quotes from The Portrait of a Lady: Choose

  

  📖 2) She fixed her eyes upon him, and there was something in their character that reminded him of large, polished buttons; he seemed to see the reflection of surrounding objects upon the pupil. The expression of a button is not usually deemed human, but there was something in Miss Stackpole’s gaze that made him, […]

  08/19/2022 2:32 pm

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• Notice: & with a favorite poem, or three

  

  (morningtime feat. photo, my cat Peeko 🐱 who helps me at times to complete one thing at a time—here, he’s a teatime supervisor ☕️ (he’s just had his breakfast and his daily brushing), a poetry book 📙, and a music box 🎶; you’ll see.) Last night, around midnight Something feels wrong now without a subject, […]

  08/18/2022 9:01 am

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• May Ziadeh in MainGate Magazine, a short biography with titles of speeches she gave—and her poetry

  

  My poet friend Hagop Kazazian sent me this article in a magazine from recent times: End Note Comments by me: —I wonder what she said about Columbus discovering America in her first speech at this college; I’d mention him myself often mostly metaphorically… —I believe her brother mentioned here died as a young child and […]

  08/17/2022 2:27 pm

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• Lines of a Memorable Poem…and a Forgotten Sketch Found

  More to come on this wonderful collection of Rumi’s poetry that I am satisfied reading without needing to complete it…Here is a photo of some memorable lines: —Rumi The Book of Love: poems of ecstasy and longing … I also found this pencil sketch I drew in a book of mine from March 20, 2022–it […]

  08/11/2022 4:46 pm

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• “Sincerity”

  AUGUST 8, 2022 The theme to write on was ‘flying and falling’ with 800 words max…This one is under 500 words, prose poetry in style. Sincerity by Jade Nicole Beals “Did you get new hips?” Colbert said to me. My face appearing non-phased, I said, “No, Why do you ask?” I had just begun to […]

  08/08/2022 4:24 pm

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• “As If I Had Been the Harp Then and the Hidden Music”

  July 30, 2022 by Jade Nicole Beals —for Miss May Ziadeh hear this poem read: You were close to me last night in your compassion and cherishing of me; I felt the feather-soft way your fingers moved through my hair, the shape of your hands familiar and welcome… You placed your face close to mine […]

  07/30/2022 10:57 am

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