Tag: philosophy

• “The Pinnacle”

  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 the music and world, […]

  09/24/2022 7:58 am

  beauty, benevolence, dreams, friendship, love, love poetry, lovingkindness, music, my dreams, my poetry, philosophy, soulmates, uplifting

• 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

  

  …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 I noticed how […]

  08/22/2022 9:21 am

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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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• A Very Short Story, “Sincerity”

  ….This Journal resumes… I received a letter this morning saying that my short story didn’t win the contest I’d mentioned; the judges enjoyed reading it and I enjoyed writing it very much too. The contest theme was ‘flying and falling’ with 800 words max and a contest I’d began looking into soon before entries closed, […]

  08/08/2022 4:24 pm

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• …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

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• Found with a Crown…and Renewing All My Tea Cups

  

  It is morning, 7 am, and meditative teatime is winding down now for me to share your photo for today, from the spontaneous series I’d created yesterday on my walk (in Massachusetts where I live.) This is picture #2: Found with a Crown. This little plant is growing brightly on mulch and in the shade, […]

  07/26/2022 7:34 am

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• Thriving in Their Secret Ways (Photo Series)

  

  I’ve felt that these photos are really meant to be seen all together: & my favorite… love, Jade

  07/26/2022 7:11 am

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• From the Prose Poetry of Miss May Ziadeh, Chapter “Intimate Pages”

  I have an idea for the blog to share my own little lines of literary critique of May’s writings (besides my book review of her poetry book, Fleurs de Reve Flowers of a Dream, 1911), the kind of attentiveness she valued in her own reviews and critiques, ’tho would’ve rarely in her time and place […]

  07/25/2022 8:00 pm

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• I Was Trying to Paint a Room, but the Mood Came First

  

  🎨paint on hands, not so bad. My art in progress on table. The painting I’ve been working on is coming along at The Gallery, a Sunday of realizing I was trying to see this physical room I’d imagined, to paint it how it appeared, but today I found that starting with the mood and rich […]

  07/25/2022 12:21 pm

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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, […]

  07/14/2022 5:23 pm

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• 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

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• “In the Deep, Unexpected Dark”

  May 18, 2022 In the Deep, Unexpected Dark —for May Ziadeh I cried my tears. I cried your tears on your behalf. I cried in the places where your tears melted and trickled towards mine. I felt your fears and my themes passing through me and on… I looked into your years, and wants, and […]

  07/04/2022 8:00 am

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• “This Is…”

  May 2022 This Is… Humidity. This is the red flower moon full of… This is an anonymous lady shouting out (while grilling me) “Don’t be sorry, honey!” [to a man with her] of me, after there was no altercation, but only kindly manners, as he’d come quickly around a hidden bend, jogging toward my cart […]

  07/02/2022 5:21 pm

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• ‘Victorians’ Learning, Peeko’s Window Throne, and Calming Things

  

  *reading from a poem video now included* My cat Peeko was very impressed with the cover of this book Victorians as I learn a little with historical research, and I think I know which topic I’ll look for next, but I will browse the books next in person. (I’m in the ’collecting and gathering’ stage […]

  06/30/2022 9:36 am

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• I Stood by the Window…

  

  Jun. 24, 2022 I stood by the window the light behind me, warm, rosy-plum shadows draped over me; you stood to face me as I looked up and looked in deeply. I stepped a little back this way, my Love, so that you could shine most brightly.

  06/29/2022 8:03 am

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• Tell Me About You

  There might have been a small overflow of posts from 10 yrs ago or more come up in your email from the blog this weekend from when I was updating my WordPress plan…These were posts mysteriously restored and not an avalanche of relevant news, my apologies. I wrote this About Me yesterday to share on […]

  06/20/2022 5:22 pm

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• A Picture of a Moment in My Life in Words

  We’d recently had the shower/bath tile wall re-grouted. The workers arrive and knock, I open the door, I am probably half their height as I say hi and welcome them in. They step inside to see a giant, fluffy gray cat running away into a back bedroom at top speed, gaining more speed gradually, tripping […]

  06/20/2022 5:22 pm

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

  —for Miss May Ziadeh You were close to me last night with your compassion and how you were cherishing 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 and whispered in my ear a little while, quick soft […]

  06/18/2022 4:36 pm

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• Stepping Into a Novel Set in 1000 AD Like I’m In It Already

  

  June 13, 2022 A beautifully unfolding novel I find myself at ease in the place and am amused to find myself sharing so many interests with the characters in this historical novel (set in Scotland about 1000 years earlier than our current time): Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King. I share with the characters interests […]

  06/13/2022 3:20 pm

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• An Imagined Room and View, 2

  I sketched this view again, a scene from my imagination I’d shown, and this time I added to the subject and added colored pencils with the pastel (wasn’t a great blend of two mediums for me but I tried). Seeing this, I found a change to make to the subjects. I am finding my way […]

  06/13/2022 6:52 am

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• Peeko’s Fiction Pick and Photo Shoot

  

  photos Jun 11, ’22 evening I am reading at a slow, meditative pace the novel, Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King set in Scotland in 1000 AD. I hadn’t seen many historical fiction novels set at this time or place. My cat Peeko (shown above) does no tricks; he poses his own way in these. […]

  06/12/2022 9:17 am

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