Tag: spirituality

• “If the Stars Were Not Out”

  by Jade Nicole Beals A whispered line overheard in the night as I slept from through the open window that overlooks mostly unpopulated woods: I considered, half-dreaming, The line has been spoken protectively, ‘though I am safe, and I fell back to sleep. I think, in any case, you would still have come. A surgeon […]

  01/24/2023 6:03 am

  beauty, dialogue, dreams, flowers, free verse, gratitude, grief poetry, healing, literary salon we keep, love, lovingkindness, lyrical poetry, my poetry, nature, night, peace, poetry, poets, sadness, secrets, silence, sky, spirituality, supportive, therapeutic, writers

• 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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• A Poetry Reading: Four Recent Poems I Wrote and Read Aloud

  

  For relaxation and winding down before bed or anytime, or just to listen to poetry spoken, I have read aloud a few prose poems I wrote over the span of a few months. You can listen to me read them, the links show the text of each poem, and the third I’d reread is a […]

  01/20/2023 1:32 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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• Sun Shower

  

  My latest painting is complete! “Sun Shower” by Jade Nicole Beals, January 17, 2023, 18 x 24 acrylic on wrapped canvas, can display directly on wall or in a frame, shown close up in natural light.

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• Two Debut Novelists of Today whose Novels I’ve Recently Read

  

  Sue Lynn Tann wrote the debut fiction bestseller, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, and Heart of the Sun Warrior, the sequel, was just released this November 2022. I had read the first book and remembered about the sequel this month and that it would have been already released. I read this book most recently, a […]

  01/15/2023 8:03 pm

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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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• Forgiveness by Patty Griffin, listening to a live performance

  I have been offline mostly continuing a few days. I’ve been listening to music today for the comfort and healing, on shuffle, and this singer came on first. I haven’t really listened to her closely in many years, and she was one of the first singer-songwriters I’d found and loved, and my favorite one for […]

  01/04/2023 8:01 pm

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• A Special Gift I’ve Given to Myself: My Rosary and Embroidered Pouch

  

  I knew this year when I visited the gift-shop at La Salette around Christmastime and was too sick to visit my family in Brooklyn, New York at the time, to be postponed, that we would wait to exchange gifts. I still knew of a gift I wanted to give myself this year… The first night […]

  01/02/2023 1:04 pm

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• New Year’s Night: Prayer Candles Lighting Up All through the Week

  

  I got to see the candles at La Salette shrine lit with my messages this time. I found the side wall with a written paper in the Chapel of Light is where they print the dedications.I lit these candles for the full week, including the message I wrote for my grandma with her full name, […]

  01/01/2023 8:29 pm

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• 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

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• It’s Been About Angels, so I’ll Tell You a True Story

  December 23, 2022 I enjoy mindfulness meditation, ‘tho I’ve learned or tried many kinds of meditation. I want to try again sitting meditation. It helps me to have a guide of directions in mind rather than sitting bored or completely unengaged…I also like lovingkindness meditation. These are best done sitting, relaxed and alert. For the […]

  12/23/2022 7:47 pm

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• A Poem from Long Ago Set to Music and Sung

  

  my teddybears just held hands like that 🙂 on the bookshelf right side zoom in. And this teddybear Peeko 🧸🐱is napping on this blanket but also feels sad when his Mama is not feeling well and sleeping the day and night. 💕 See his puffy pouty kitten face as I say I love him. He […]

  12/23/2022 6:17 pm

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• Songs for Storms

  

  💞🎶 💖💖

  12/23/2022 4:27 pm

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• In the Midst of Christmas Lights

  

  🎄Christmas lights are set up at La Salette in Massachusetts.✨✨The whole place is decorated this way and with art made by hand; it is beautiful to walk through at night, and the display returns each year.🎄✨💕It’s the kind of place you can go to again in a season and appreciate different things you may have […]

  12/15/2022 11:40 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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• A Book and a Birthday

  I am reading a new book, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (1977). It is very intriguing. I’d remembered reading the novel sometime when I’d lived in New York and I remembering loving her writing style, yet nothing else at all. I thought it was published in 2004, but that was the reprint; it’s 1977 […]

  12/09/2022 8:54 pm

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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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• Blushing Morning Sky Dries My Tears and My Confusion Clears

  

  kisses sent :* :* :* :* I am fully in a blushing rose tint, whole room. Jade

  11/27/2022 6:36 am

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• Sun-Kissed

  💕Jade

  11/26/2022 2:56 pm

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• Tuesday, Just after Teatime, Morning Sun

  Tuesday, just after teatime, literary salon beginning and plum village meditation next… Welcome to the literary salon; I am not the host though 😀 ‘…? :)’ Note: I wanted to delete all these esp. this accidental crazed look one 😅 but the literary host, Miss May says, no, not to delete 😊💞(a journalistic word of […]

  11/22/2022 10:13 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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• Music to Walk to and More, Two Songs I Am Listening To

  I walk to this 🥰😍🎶🌤🌅 another one 🙂 for today, writing! I want it I do it 📓I’ll read the book; I’ll write one too😊☺️😊 Great beat to walk to 🎶🥁😊🕯…✒️💕 Jade

  11/13/2022 3:08 pm

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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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• 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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• Tea Party

  

  “Tea Party” graphite pencils on paper, Nov. 7, 2022 by Jade Nicole Beals, signed dated on back.

  11/07/2022 6:12 pm

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• My Prayer for Britney..-**’ :)

  *This is not meant as a solemn prayer even if original title sounded like it* 🙂 my prayer for Britney Spears, a song, 🎶 ✨💖 & I love this song myself, lyrics, Ed Sheeran vocals & the music…Let the prayer exhale and set the world and their hearts right, wish you well…:) Jade

  11/06/2022 12:17 pm

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• Morningtime My New Place to Pray, to be Shown

  

  I sit bedside to pray on my cushion this Sunday morning; it’s I love you if you want it transcribed; the rest, a caress of my body and mind. Jade

  11/06/2022 10:07 am

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• An Autumn Leaf Found and Pressed, A Gift for Myself

  

  I forgot this was ready yesterday. This leaf is taken out of my book…and it’s preserved, such an art! Thank you. 🍁🌳🙏 Jade

  11/05/2022 10:36 am

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• A Debut Fantasy Novel, All Saints Day, Writers’ Retreat

  

  photo from bookshop November 1, 2022 A new fantasy novel I’d found with a second book in the series to come this month. * It is All Saints Day, and this holiday has a very special meaning. 🙂 🙂 Miss May says from the song we listened to…“But you are the angel in person.” 🙂 […]

  11/01/2022 8:07 am

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• 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

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• Indoors, Mostly Forget the Sky for Now, Pt. 1

  October 29, 2022, 8 pm night For tonight, let’s be indoors…Close and roll down the blinds, open partway, the stars are lit just a little, lamplights for relaxation and silent reading. I raced you to the chair: I think I got there first, am very fast. I like how you have better jokes. 😉 last […]

  10/29/2022 7:36 pm

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• :’*

  

  Oct. 27, 2022 I am very sad today, I spotted this flower, a little green arch above it. If I would’ve been there longer, it would have been watered by my tears… * Dear Mayy, I know of a place you may like, you may already know, I haven’t been there in awhile; let’s go […]

  10/29/2022 6:05 pm

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• Someplace Else Away

  

  oh, this bird stopped by yesterday 🙂 I could call this a retreat but I am honest it is in a way but it seems that many people close to me find me overwhelming, doing wasteful things, or just annoying in general, Miss May seems to welcome me fully; we have plenty to laugh about […]

  10/26/2022 7:00 am

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• :*

  

  (This was really meant to have no caption and is not explained in words, was not even about jewelry or gold, in reply to my accidental horror of captions I’d find in my new revisions :D, but I let it rest this way…:) Had you found this photo or post suspicious, and are you suspicious? […]

  10/16/2022 7:04 pm

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• This Mysterious Gift

  

  a soft gold glimmer in the lamplight, night from July 21, 2021 I’ve revised this this morning 🙂 Tuesday, Oct. 11th, and I got so into this when I was done, I accidentally set two teaspoons of tea in the teapot (Now, heaven may not physically drink a cup of tea from earth :)…Set it […]

  10/11/2022 12:27 pm

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