Tag: supportive
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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 🙂 […]
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“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 […]
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Pedestrian Bridge Over the Train Tracks in Brčko, Bih by Milica Mijatovic
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER THE TRAIN TRACKS IN BRČKO, BIH —By Milica Mijatović I don’t know when the bridge was built, or when the trains stopped running, or which side of the tracks was ours & which theirs, or why they painted the bridge turquoise, or why war is obsessed with lines, or who graffitied one […]
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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.
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“File”
by Jade Nicole Beals A poem is not a statement of facts, although a handwritten draft may be a primary source of history. One has the right to write a poem even if disagreeing parties say no even without the record of it: As for the poet, I will elude the file folder; I still […]
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Peeko’s Paws Pressed Together, a Prayerful Expression with Compassion for a Fellow Rhyme-Loving Cat across the Country
Peeko loves praying with me, and he was interested in the rosary prayer today as he napped. Peeko has been rested now in a more private, less time on camera living, as one of my new year’s resolutions is to take fewer photos of Peeko, as he prefers more time relaxed in the moment. He […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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My 4 Simple New Year’s Resolutions
So this is a kind of hands off theme! Do you have any new year’s resolutions?
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“Note”
poem read aloud for your listen Note by Jade Nicole Beals The dark does not hide what I would like to see A still star is still prettier than a shooting star, despite the rarities in science. Fireworks in the sky as a display are not a thing I’ve sought out after, but there is […]
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An Abstract Painting in the Making, Session 2
IN PROGRESS. Session 2. An abstract painting in the making. (This was session 1 when I was trying out texture on canvas.) * A unique composition, I notice is forming that I’d like to keep, and this one I find best painted with very slow additions and its simplicity and pure space preserved. I will […]
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Mary Haskell, author, art patron, and school principal celebrates a Birthday Today
“People are always longing for someone to help them realize their best selves,” – Mary Haskell (portrait drawn by artist Kahlil Gibran) Today is writer, art patron (b. in South Carolina, 1873) Boston school principal, Mary Haskell’s birthday…that is, the big 149 yrs! Can you handle it? (This is probably the most biased birthday greeting […]
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Session #3 Drawing in Progress, Grateful with Art Supporter :)
with my dad in law, Dave who is a great supporter of my art and bought my painting “Mornings at the Sea” at my first art show!! 🙏💕😊💕With my new drawing In Progress! Session #3📝! I brought it to Thanksgiving in my new drawing book a great thing to do, draw while at a home […]
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Deep Blue Sea Dance Clip
Oops! I’d forgotten this one…Yes this 🏝 island theme continues, ocean waves 🌊mermaids, yoga dance, completed 5 for Britney Spears. Britney is the spinner; I am not :). I love her spinning. “Blue lights are hard to describe…” 💙 🎶🧚♂️🧜♀️💖🌊🌊🎶 https://youtube.com/shorts/uppf7VNZB94?feature=share Jade Nicole Yoga Playlist I was redoing my Yoga Dance videos finding some new […]
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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
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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 […]
Blush of Dawn 