Tag: poetic

• My Dream of a Paper I Didn’t Request but Read Anyway

  I dreamed last night I had a few printed pages given to me by an unspecified fortune teller, predictions I did not ask for, but ‘here it is!’ I see. On the front page, it predicts that I am most fond of the Full Moon…and there’s an illustration of a very big round and bright […]

  09/22/2022 7:58 am

  dreams, memoir, moon, my dreams, mythology, poetic

• New England Garden: Dahlia Day and Fairy Forest

  

  It was Dahlia Day at the garden my husband Dan and I went to for the day. This New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill is in North Western MA. It is nice too that libraries around MA offer passes that discount the admission price greatly, and one pass covers two people for the day. […]

  09/18/2022 11:08 am

  art, fairies, flowers, fun, garden, massachusetts, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, my sketch, nature, poetic, relaxation

• Open Windows

  I had accidentally spilled paint years ago on the wooden easel I’d had packed away and maybe another chemical too (Spills are safely cleaned off the surface right away). I decided not to keep it with the fumes. But I got my blank canvas, supplies, imagination, and many open windows…:)

  09/16/2022 1:47 pm

  art, creative process, home, memoir, memoir stories, poetic, wellness

• My Wooden Easel and Art Supplies

  

  I brought in my portable wooden easel tonight. I cleaned it well with natural soaps and water, cleaned, neatened bristles, and arranged all my brushes, and set up all paints inside. I also placed on my blank 9 x 12 canvas, deep cleansed and airing out the wooden easel with the cool open window. I […]

  09/15/2022 8:02 pm

  art, artists, creative process, home, interior design, lovingkindness, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, night, poetic, self-care, wellness

• 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

  art gallery, beauty, book reflection, book review, creative process, creativity, fairies, fantasy, friendship, massachusetts, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, naomi navik, novels, pablo picasso, philosophy, poetic, portraits, sketches

• Nature Plays The Same Notes

  

  After I completed my painting the previous night, this afternoon, Friday, I went out for a celebratory walk in the bright sun. I found nature playing the same notes, blossoming with the colors that inspired my latest painting from imagination: Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window. In my art, the mood felt […]

  09/10/2022 8:27 am

  art, beauty, flowers, full moon, fun, heavenly, home, lovingkindness, massachusetts, memoir, memoir stories, moon, my photography, narrative, nature, poetic, poetry books, uplifting

• Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window

  

  “Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window” by Jade Nicole Beals Sept. 8, 2022. 11 L x 14 W sides painted, signed and dated on back by me. *I will mark paintings as ‘available’ to purchase, unavailable in private collection, or temporarily unavailable if the painting will be part of an art show […]

  09/09/2022 10:46 pm

  abstract, abstract expressionism, creative process, dreams, fantasy, fruit, full moon, garden, gratitude, love, lovingkindness, memoir, my art, nature, night, poetic, positivity, soulmates, still life, supportive

• Peeko, and What We’re Up To

  

  Update Thurs. 7 am: Peeko is feeling better! 🙂 He ate all of his late dinner and all of his breakfast today. … Today’s ‘one thing or two’ main project picked for the day and that’s all—in bold—among other things I may pick to do: *a fully physical day: yoga—extended hold of each stretch. eating […]

  09/08/2022 8:27 am

  art, beauty, home, love, lovingkindness, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, peeko, poetic, relaxation, self-care, self-reflection, teatime, wellness, yoga

• Peeko Creates His Own Retreat

  

  (photo found from yesterday; lighting a little brightened to match reality) Speaking of all my “pocket talk” with my pocket sketchbooks on the blog drawings of flowers and leaves out in the field: My cat Peeko added to his cat tower…and created his very own hammock! from beneath the seat of my chair, and it’s […]

  09/03/2022 10:18 am

  art, boston, dance, home, lovingkindness, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, night, peeko, poetic, rest, vacation time, wellness, yoga

• About The Flower

  I was happy to find the fluffy flower; I was also a little sad because the wind kept blowing its feathers and it was a very shady spot with little light and more than enough heat and humidity. I may go back to the spot today. I worked on my painting in progress and will […]

  09/01/2022 8:32 am

  boston, creative process, flowers, food, lovingkindness, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, nature, poetic, prose poetry

• A Pair of Leaves in the Rain

  

  back inside, the lamplight showed the page in a warm light I wasn’t planning to sketch or even paint today, but the fire-alarms were going to be tested today, and began, so I grabbed my purse, pocket sketchbook, a book to read, pencil, and sharpener that were on my side table. I was going outside […]

  08/22/2022 5:47 pm

  art, beauty, faith, fashion, home, love, lovingkindness, memoir stories, my sketch, nature, poetic, unity

• 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

  arabic, beauty, benevolence, english, farsi, food, love, lovingkindness, medieval era, memoir, morningtime, music, my photography, night, peeko, persian, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, rumi, spirituality, translations, wellness

• Morning Sketch from a Field Afternoon: treasures

  

  I drew this sketch this morning, with my morning tea, from a few first sketches I’d drawn yesterday—(it was still a heatwave, so I’d gone back in after a little while even with my water canteen.) I drew with pencil, eraser, and pocket-book in a little spot in nature where I could kneel beneath this […]

  08/17/2022 8:29 am

  art, boston, henry james, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, my sketch, nature, novels, poetic

• Soft Gaze, Highway Pace

  

  So much to say; words are only one way.

  08/14/2022 6:35 pm

  leaving space, lovingkindness, my photography, poetic, self portraits, sun

• Wildflower Field with Fragrance and Dance— I Love Like This

  

  ^ I love: like this…Love: like this. (my photo of a wildflower field tonight) I worked on my still life painting today. It’s midway in progress (maybe)…It’s an imaginary room and arrangement that came to my mind. The room appears with my brush, the flowers, too; it is funny how I can’t tell if I’m […]

  08/09/2022 5:36 pm

  art, creative process, garden, literary salon we keep, love, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, poetic, soulmates

• 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

  friendship, letters, love, my fiction, philosophy, poetic, prose poetry, short stories, writing process, writing prompt

• Wind-flown

  

  I learned a new word, I think it was wind-sewn; or maybe wind-sown?, or even wind-turned, and I am all windswept or windblown along with these flowers. I don’t know; I like them all anyway…the little red flowers and leaflets and versions of this word… As for the pieces of my novel in progress and […]

  08/01/2022 1:23 pm

  boston, friendship, garden, home, leaving space, literary salon we keep, lovingkindness, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, metta, mindfulness, my photography, poetic, self portraits, soulmates, taking flight, vacation time

• Traffic Jam

  

  make a fairytale fairy life… …golden hour…traffic- jam-time…(not driving) fairy lights… keepsakes *o ( in a locket ) .-***’m•* … Symbol art may happen on blog; sometimes in bold.*

  07/30/2022 1:08 pm

  art, love, my photography, night, poetic, self portraits, soulmates, vacation time

• …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

• Sunset Stretch

  

  … (prose poem, to go along with photos, this one’s in a ’list style’) …Closing the day this way. Morning: I brightened every teacup. Unexpected guests arrived on time: one plumber, two plumbers, three plumbers…all day, fully revitalizing the hot water tank…and the literary salon goes on, and then another tea, dinner cooked and enjoyed […]

  07/28/2022 12:39 pm

  angelic, creative writing prompt, fairies, heavenly, leaving space, lovingkindness, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, peeko, poetic, prose poetry, self portraits, taking flight, uplifting, vacation time, writing prompt, yoga

• 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

  benevolence, free, garden, leaving space, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, my photography, nature, philosophy, poetic, secret, soulmates

• 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

  20th century, arab renaissance, catholic, english, english literature, france, french, fun, garden, gratitude, lebanon, letters, may ziadeh, meditate, meditation, moon, morningtime, my photography, nature, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, prose poetry, romantic era, sky, spirituality, sun, writings by may ziadeh

• From Songs for Strangers and Pilgrims, Sealed, Signed, Love, Christina Rossetti

  

  by Christina Rossetti … This poem may have been written sadly, but I read it warmly…I read it as my love has both the key and my heart kept safely in heaven, in her own, brings a little heaven in when she comes in; the key recalls to me with whom and how I share […]

  07/15/2022 9:56 am

  19th century, art, catholic, christina rossetti, english literature, form poetry, heavenly, lord byron, love, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, moon, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, prose poetry, secrets, soulmates, spirituality, sun

• What Grew There

  

  What grew from past pain, watered with my tears and compassion, now found swinging in the morning breeze: these. * Called “Bittersweet,” these flowers are highly toxic, not to eat, ✔️and even still, they are so beautiful. … By looking up at the shapes of the leaves on the trees, I’d found the place was […]

  07/15/2022 7:38 am

  beauty, benevolence, garden, haiga, hope, love, lovingkindness, morningtime, my photography, poetic, short poetry, sky, uplifting

• “Friday Night Line of Wisdom”

  Friday Night Line of Wisdom I am all out of wisdom I could tell you; I could almost lift off the floor in flight for that: let’s read books and comb our hair through and place coconut on our skin and calves, can apply a little to the eyelashes on a clear mascara brush too…Let’s […]

  07/04/2022 10:39 am

  apostrophe, bath, beauty, books, boston, friendship, fruit, letters, literary salon we keep, love, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my poetry, poetic, poetry, prose poetry, reading, soulmates, tea, wellness