Tag: sun

• Self Portrait Yoga in the Sun

  

  01/25/2023 10:40 am

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂 […]

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• Self Portrait Reclining in the Sun

  

  01/24/2023 12:05 pm

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• Sunbathing at the Library with Poetry

  

  It’s Wednesday, it has been a week of busyness and creations that I cherish, and I slow down midway, read poetry in the sun, have a few small books to share, but for now it’s just sun, sit the other way, sun against my neck, a drink of water, rest, stretch, read, listen, associate, smile, […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 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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• About Sun Shower

  January 17, 2023 It’s been the sunniest day the day I completed this painting; I’d been wishing for sun. And some natural framing, in the generous flood of morning sunlight, I didn’t place in the rainbows in the next photo 😊 (or the bubbles.) I focused on this painting as my project of the week. […]

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• Dream of You Dancing on the Beach

  I found myself stressing little decisions of normalcy and possible ways I was annoying people just before bed, and instead of a proverb or a chastisement came…You…dancing on the beach, and it was summer there. 😊☀️🏝. I realized your identity was not perfectly defined, and my view of you was a little blurry as you […]

  01/15/2023 8:27 pm

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• I Started Over, A New Short Story, and It’s Completed!

  But you will not read it in this post. 🙂 I was writing a secret short story as a gift to be given to someone (no one knows but me) at the upcoming Christmas gathering with my family in New York… The one I started writing the other day I was not too happy with, […]

  12/22/2022 12:36 pm

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• 3 Things to Do Today in Balance

  …feat. photo: for a future project, this Jane Eyre I was given, with the gold stain. The idea: Write a “found poem,” but I will not cut out or glue any words from the actual book, just look through it and arrange the words I will write on my own paper. 🙂 After a needed […]

  12/09/2022 12:30 pm

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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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• A Teacup for Me, A Notebook Seen and Soon to Write

  

  I’d learned a lot about antiques, spec. teacups these months, and what to look for…I had a few small mistakes and I wanted just one more… This one showed up on Etsy and I thought, “That looks like a teacup just for me.” It has no cracks, which is necessary to check if you want […]

  11/10/2022 7:36 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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• Because I’d Been Wishing for Your Happiness and Love

  

  On September 26, 2021, I wished through faith for your all your past pain and any present, to be sent into the earth and be transformed into something beautiful, so it wouldn’t burden you anymore. I felt this place near home welcomed me, a place in nature I’d not been so near before, as I […]

  10/03/2022 7:10 am

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• Soft Gaze, Highway Pace

  

  So much to say; words are only one way.

  08/14/2022 6:35 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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• 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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• 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

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• What Grew There, Part 2

  

  My mind told me I must’ve been mistaken of the spot, and I’d then realized the position of the sun is a more reliable indicator, time of day, and also the shape of the trunk of the trees and the branches not just shape of leaves; I am a continuing student of nature. This, too, […]

  07/15/2022 9:00 am

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• 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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• …*

  

  …as if I’d dreamed the tea cup, but found it first and remembered the dream in my own fancy when I received it and picked it up in my hands and looked… The design is just what I would wish…Green I often turn to and admire, green that feels like new sprouts and grass and […]

  06/06/2022 2:49 pm

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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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• Not My Door, But I Got My Classic and My Bright Bookmark

  

  I finished reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte (1853) last night, felt I could remain within its mists even after the book ended, a ponderous read that I feel safe within… I took these photos on the spot yesterday early afternoon walking around after reading, was still in the middle of Villette. 📷 … Not My […]

  05/21/2022 8:30 am

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• “Who Knew”

  Calm, I knew well, interlocked, entwined with mine. Superior, yet open always…first, that certain pale blue, the expansiveness that is close, contentment…Trust, feel safe with my soul-friend; I’d heard from others you looking down often, none of your little news, and mostly I’ve been looking up since I would look, meet both places, eyes meet […]

  05/10/2022 9:18 pm

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• “The Castle Tower”

  

  April 25, 2022 The Castle Tower a pantoum by Jade Nicole Beals You’ve said I am entwined with the numberless. The castle tower trades its lace for the sky. All night, the tower climbs in secret, spinning its uppermost lace into the finest clouds. Please place your hands upon mine. The castle tower trades its […]

  04/25/2022 7:36 pm

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• III. A Persian Buttercup A-blossoming

  

  04/22/2022 6:20 am

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• I. For Blossoming

  

  04/15/2022 1:43 pm

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• 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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• Morning Tea in Honor of My Grandma on Her Birthday, New Flowers and Poetry

  

  *** Flowers found and brought home this weekend from local garden shop, purple pansies and white fragrant climbing blossoms scented with a little more honey than florally; I received care directions from the garden staff for this potted variety…I will find out the fragrant one’s name today, flowers in time for spring and my grandma’s […]

  04/04/2022 9:04 am

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• Happy Poetry Month, Gothic Novel Read, Poetry Collection by Jason Preu

  

  two books by Jason Preu upon table, morningtime, captured within bright flashes of sun After I’d completed reading a new poetry book from author Jason Preu, one I’d picked to read first, The Avocado Among Other Fruits and wrote down my immediate impressions, I realized then it is April 1st and so begins Poetry Month! […]

  04/01/2022 12:49 pm

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• The Sun in My Cup, Draw What You See, A Morning of a Little Creativity

  

  There’s the sun in my cup of green-oolong tea…😊☕️This is a new one I’d tried and I am glad I remembered how much I love green-oolongs; this one’s called Ali Shan. I really like Ti Kuan Yin green-oolong and Golden Flower. I gave myself an assignment with my sketchbook—Pick something, place yourself somewhere (seated or […]

  03/14/2022 11:57 am

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• The Prairie Post: Willa Cather’s Set of Novels, O Pioneers!….

  

  I will be reading my poem tomorrow, Friday, March 11th at Indelible’s online Poetry Launch event that will take place at 10 AM EST. This scene, from my balcony in Massachusetts, of at first, very thickly-frosted pine trees all morning giving way to dripping and trickling onto the melting ground with such warm winter sun, […]

  03/10/2022 11:37 am

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• Happy Birthday, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 130 yrs!

  

  Here’s a poem Edna St. Vincent Millay (b. 1892) wrote…from her book Collected Poems called “To Elinor Wylie.” It’s a series poem containing sections (six), full of sonnet and one in the middle. I read it aloud in the morning fog today on Edna’s birthday Feb. 22, 130 yrs earth. This sky of rose was […]

  02/22/2022 12:15 pm

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• Author and Poet, May Ziadeh’s Birthday

  

  Happy birthday, Mayy! 😊💕136 never looked so good! (…and that is earth years.) 😊🎊 b. Feb. 11, 1886 in Nazareth, lived in Egypt and Lebanon, d. Oct. 17, 1941 in Cairo. May Elias Ziadeh was a writer and editor, author of poetry, biographies and fiction, knew nine languages, was a speaker, translator, and tutor, and […]

  02/11/2022 4:27 pm

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• Sun

  

  01/27/2022 12:57 pm

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• Mornings at the Sea

  

  “Mornings at the Sea“ Jade Nicole Beals Happily SOLD. Jan. 17, 2022 12 W” x 9” H

  01/17/2022 3:57 pm

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• :)

  

  —Peeko —Jade

  01/08/2022 2:19 pm

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