Tag: spanish

• Patty Griffin Live in Boston Feb. 3, 2023

  

  A very beautiful, illuminating, and emotional concert; Patty Griffin played all of my favorite songs, and I’d just found the concert this morning when I’d thought to tag Patty Griffin in my ocean sketch I’d drawn from my own memory of the beach after I was inspired by her song, “Servant of Love,” and the…

  02/04/2023 12:35 am

  beauty, birthdays, boston, concerts, healing, inspiring, love, lovingkindness, massachusetts, memoir, memoir stories, music, patty griffin, poetic, portraits, positivity, raul malo, spanish, supportive, vacation

• Melody Gardot – Live “Impossible Love” 🎶🎼🎶🎶

  A musician I’d heard many years ago and thought she will get even better :), and she has. Melody Gardot… ‘Impossible Love’ Live in San Sebastian, song begins 12:17, lively with its poetry and music intensity, starts off autumn and gets into early spring…:) Jade

  10/03/2022 1:14 pm

  beauty, inspired, jazz, love, melody gardot, music, spain, spanish

• 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

  20th century, anaphora, beauty, dreams, english, italian, literary salon we keep, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, nature, ocean, philosophy, poetry, poets, secrets, sky, spanish, translations, writings by may ziadeh

• Five Favorite Songs and a Tea

  

  “Ain’t it crazy what’s revealed when you’re not looking all that close?” 🔥💕🎶 …🌊💕 My own review of 🍃”Ali Shan“🫖 green oolong tea from Adagio: Sweet, dewy and refreshing! Takes you to the top of the waterfall, green-oolong leaves unfurling fully at the bottom of the tea pot, warmed as if by the very sun.…

  04/07/2022 8:39 am

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• Indelible Magazine Poetry Launch—Reading My Poem, ‘Droplets Slide Down the Pine and Land Upon the Grass Within a Slow Dance’

  

  Originally posted March 14, 2022 Updated to include end of post section, “Who’s May Ziadeh? ”* It’s here! Link: https://youtu.be/Cr-CsXJWum0 🎥🎤📜 I am on just around the 28:50 mark.😊💕. Afterwards, you may also see me give a pretty long answer to a surprise question that I was happy to answer. —And there is something too…

  03/09/2022 2:18 pm

  20th century, 21st century, arabic, boston, catholic, dubai, egypt, french, gratitude, italian, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, literary journals, literary salon we keep, may ziadeh, my poetry, philosophy, poetry books, poetry read by me, poetry reading, rumi, spanish, spirituality

• May Days 😉

  

  Jan. 19, 2022 My gaze was looking downward awhile, drinking a cup of tea, then singing, suddenly looked up: I sent the sky so many kisses; I didn’t count them…😊😘😘😊 * Our literary salon yesterday May Ziadeh hosting here was so diversified: music, meditation, comments, silent reading, and it closed with my latest painting. *…

  01/19/2022 4:09 pm

  20th century, ameen rihani, arabic, art, books, boston, catholic, chamber music, classical, classical music, egypt, england, french, Kahlil gibran, lebanon, letters, literary salon we keep, may ziadeh, meditation, memoir, memoir stories, morningtime, music, my photography, new york city, philosophy, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, sky, spanish, spirituality, tea, wellness, yoga

• Autumn Returns by Pablo Neruda, Night Poetry Reading by Me in Spanish and English

  

  A flight of geese I saw early one morning just before Fall This is a long ago found favorite by the classic poet Pablo Neruda, born in July 1904 read by me in the original Spanish (it’s been a long time for me since reading the language) and then in English, and it has been…

  09/25/2021 9:22 pm

  20th century, boston, hispanic heritage month, memoir, memoir stories, my photography, Pablo Neruda, poetry, poetry read by me, poets, sky, spanish

• An Amazing Art Reading from Some Weeks Ago

  This video was recently posted, an art event and poetry reading I’d attended some time ago—I wasn’t reading my own work at this meeting or making any audible comments, but the camera will show my appreciation for the art, poems, and background stories shared. (If you notice, no it’s not a camera trick; I did…

  09/25/2021 12:45 pm

  21st century, boston, egypt, food, ghazal, haibun, hedy habra, lebanon, michigan, poetry reading, poets, rumi, spanish, spirituality

• Two Poems by Miss May Ziadeh: “To Miss C.” and “Serenade of the Mad”

  

  From August 15, 2021 (A SNEAK PREVIEW FEATURE) I share the very first poem I’d read by May “To Miss C,” which I’d loved for her boldness, compliments, and sweet appreciation, dedication in flowing verses with beautiful, delicate imagery to go with it, and the second one, “Serenade of [the One Madly in Love],” the…

  08/15/2021 7:52 pm

  20th century, beauty, dreams, english education, english literature, french, literary critique, literary theory, love, lovingkindness, may ziadeh, music, my photography, night, poetic, poetry, poetry books, poets, psychology, sadness, sky, spanish, translations