Tag: soulmates

• Mon Amour May: A Photo Mystery, Solved!

  

  —Thank you, Mr. Francesco Medici for writing to me (from Italy) about this Mystery photo post, and also clearing up who is who! From left to right: Ameen Rihani, May Ziadeh (the one I originally recognized as May by her gaze), and Samia Baroody’s husband Charles Corm, and the woman in the front holding the […]

  01/23/2023 7:44 am

  angels, beauty, dance music, fashion, franceso medici, french, italy, lebanon, letters, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, music, my short stories, new york city, poets, portraits, positivity, prose poetry, quotes, short stories, soulmates

• …Faith through Music

  MIA feat Ane Brun – All I Ever Wanted 😍🥰🗽😇🕰♥️ “I always say what I’m feeling…” True shh 🤫🎶. No 😀I want to say things. 😊 (in certain contented moments I could be quiet ❤️😊💋)

  01/21/2023 1:37 pm

  ane brun, angels, beauty, christina perri, england, little mix, love, music, music for may, piano, pop music, soulmates

• 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

  art, artists, birthdays, brooklyn, home, italy, love, massachusetts, may ziadeh, memoir, mourning, night, philosophy, poets, self reflection, soulmates, spirituality

• A Handmade Gift: Poetry and Preserved Flowers for May Ziadeh

  

  (in the Christmas morning sun) complete Dec. 24th Christmas Eve 2022 I wrote the poem originally by hand on paper at the end of May 2021 on that month’s Full Flower Moon. The poem was published in March 2022 in Indelible’s The Feminine, and I’d read it live on video. I’d been collecting flowers and […]

  12/25/2022 5:00 pm

  antique, art, books, catholic, flowers, gifts, gratitude, handmade, handwritten, heavenly, holiday, homemade, letters, love, love poetry, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, morningtime, music, poetry, poets, positivity, pressed flowers, soulmates, spirituality, supportive, uplifting, writers

• It Was Sweet, It All Renewed Me, Pt. 2

  Everyone has trials, but not everyone has these, and coming through them, I am not afraid at all to be deep; it is necessary…You hear my deep thoughts and you believe in me; you see me floating on the water and you know I am not drowning us…You smile often, my face is warmer because […]

  10/30/2022 2:45 pm

  beauty, catholic, love, lovingkindness, my mystical experiences, poetic, poets, prose poetry, relaxation, secrets, soulmates, spirituality

• 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

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

• Fresh Strawberries and a Flower Bouquet by the Window

  

  (in my private collection) “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. * My 8th recent painting. I have been working on this one for awhile, since around June maybe, and it began […]

  09/09/2022 10:46 pm

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• Good Morning! : Miss May’s Flower Art

  

  I completed this flower art today I’d made for author and poet, Miss May Ziadeh. I’d collected flowers over the seasons, a couple fallen onto my path outside, and pressed them in a book for her… and then I’d made her a celebration memorium at my home where I’d read Miss May (as she was […]

  08/19/2022 11:05 am

  art, catholic, flowers, friendship, gifts, gratitude, haiku, handmade, interior design, Jane Kenyon, love, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, my photography, nature, poetry books, secrets, soulmates, spirituality

• Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm by Luther Hughes

  by Luther Hughes Like the Japanese cherry blossoms wedded to the soil’s palm planted in front of the train station; or the yellow-black dance of the tiger swallowtail’s wings as it flees; or the echoes that follow after I thunder loud against the kitchen cabinets; or the summer fire hitched to the air we breathe—the […]

  08/18/2022 10:22 am

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• 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

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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

  friendship, letters, love, my fiction, philosophy, poetic, prose poetry, sensual, short stories, soulmates, 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

• “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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• My Teacups on Display—Yoga with Monet…

  

  The second shelf center cup just arrived yesterday…it gleams so purely on display. I’d looked to find another antique-style cup after my favorite cup I accidentally dropped into the kitchen sink the other day and it broke in half, felt a deep tug of my heart when that happened ’cause I’d loved it, ‘tho no […]

  07/29/2022 9:10 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

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

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

  

  by Christina Rossetti … 19th century English poet Christina Rossetti was born on December 5, 1830 in London, United Kingdom, the youngest of the four Rossetti children. Her father was the poet, Gabriel Rossetti, an Italian exile, and her mother was Frances (Polidori) Rossetti, a British scholar who was sister of the friend and physician […]

  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

• “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 paint, look through all of […]

  07/04/2022 10:39 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

  angelic, apostrophe, artists, heavenly, love, lovingkindness, meditative, my photography, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poets, prose poetry, self portraits, soulmates, spirituality, virtue

• Partly in Heaven

  

  June 24, 2022 late evening, night begins

  06/29/2022 6:33 am

  antique, balcony, benevolence, catholic, heavenly, inspiring, lounge, love, lovingkindness, memoir, my photography, night, poetic, self portraits, soulmates, spirituality

• 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

  art, artists, beauty, boston, creative process, dreams, fruit, garden, home, interior design, landscape, love, memoir, memoir stories, my sketch, nature, night, philosophy, sketch, sky, soulmates, still life

• 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

  21st century, beauty, books, catholic, classical music, creative process, english, english literature, fun, home, interior design, library, love, lovingkindness, medieval era, meditation, meditative, memoir, memoir stories, mindfulness, moon, morningtime, music, my photography, narrative, nature, night, novels, peeko, philosophy, poetic, scotland, soulmates, spirituality, susan fraser king, taize, uplifting

• With My Hands: Flowers Found, Pressed, and Preserved, and A Little Ink Design from My Pen

  

  this had been a great work in progress. This was just first stage, it’s complete. That is my reflection appearing in glass and this art is now up to date. Little changes made by clarifying the text in black ink, clear glue, background white, card pasted onto it with the little gathered pressed flowers, this […]

  06/11/2022 12:00 pm

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• Champagne or Gold or a Buttercup from the Field

  

  June 4, 2022 I don’t care. Neither does Ed…Let’s dance. 💃🥂♥️♥️ Oh yeah, I had Ed Sheeran mis-tagged last post as ‘Australian’. I don’t know why…I don’t care either. 😂

  06/04/2022 7:37 pm

  australia, dance, ed sheeran, england, fairies, food, fun, garden, gratitude, love, lovingkindness, music, philosophy, poetic, pop, pop music, silence, soulmates, spirituality, uplifting, video, wellness, yoga

• “Love Exists” by Amy Lee (Guy Sigsworth Remix) Began with Italian Lyrics

  Since I’d first heard Amy Lee (well-known as the lead singer of Evanescence), I always hoped she would someday do a solo album because I’d loved her voice and enjoyed it much more than the band’s music personally at the time, and then many years later I‘d found she had done a solo album with […]

  06/03/2022 8:42 am

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• “Without Question”

  

  roses, high noon (a quatrain) I used to fear the night, but ’round your head, there was a glow. I liked it better than the sun, It was love, I was yet to know. —Jade

  05/31/2022 12:07 pm

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• 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

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