Tag: therapeutic
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Ways to Calm in the Night
(As I awaken and add in this photo, a blush of dawn palette 🎨, kisses sent up, as it gets light outside 🙂 * 3:30 am a nightmare not real not real… I notice the room, my breathing, distant lulling sounds, my whole body, my eyes are still open but I feel them relax…Going over…
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Welcome Home, Peperomia
I brought home this plant today, on the bus home in the inside pocket of my side bag, and I have learned how to care for it. It is a rubber plant, ‘peperomia’ and it is also cat and dog friendly. The tag named it an Angel plant and gave it the name, “Golden.” It…
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Poetry News! And Another View of My Paintings in the Room
A new poem I’d written was accepted to appear in Indelible Magazine’s Issue #7, the theme is “Science and Sensibility”, and my poem is called “A Mermaid Tells of the Sea Above the Sky.” 😉 You’ll see how it considers the theme, and the Issue should release around late March April 2023. I will link…
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My Original Paintings Displayed in a Room
Lamplight, nighttime, still vibrant and evoke a warm, positive mood in the room. “Mountain Peak” elegant simplicity with gold enamel paint accents, (December 2022). “Sun Shower” (January 2023) does well in a lamplit room and in the moonlight too, on a wall near a window for morning and also partially set back. The moon made…
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Edna St. Vincent Millay Celebrates a Birthday, with a Poem
Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first poet I’d read again that helped me start up the blog in 2020. I had mentioned her name in a poem, “The Sea Lair” in my first full-length poetry book, Moonflower (2018), poems spanning over a long period of years, and I would like her more in time.…
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A Bear’s First Bath and Other Little Writing News
There was not much of a literary salon today, but there is no rigidness! Instead, mainly, a teddybear beauty salon…🧸 Alisi’s first bath, fur fluffed and gently brushed (left), sitting with Teddie, also bathed and brushed. Behind the bears you may see a notebook and pen where I am handwriting passages of my first novel.…
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Reading Simply Being Tonight…
—My reflective recommendation included in this post 🙂 from February 6, 2023 I began the day in the morning when I woke with one session of a new painting, with a new very portable table easel, given to me by my mom for Christmas. I like to sit and paint, and this is so easy…
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The Ocean Shore
The Ocean Shore, from my pocket sketch-book, completed Feb. 3, 2023, a scene from memory, inspired by the song, “Servant of Love” by Patty Griffin, a scene that might have not appeared in this particular song but the song had moved me, reminded me of this view from my memory, and inspired me to draw.…
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Groundhog Day and a Home Library Day of Surprises
🐱This groundhog does not do ‘tricks’ like show you a season out of his shadow, but if he wants to, he will, and then he will take your treat after. Today, I gave 4 books away because I’d wanted to 😊💕📚. It was not great though overall: windy, cold, and the wind kept blowing my…
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Reading Yeats, “He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes”
To my surprise, it’s “Read Aloud Day” world-wide for anyone wanting to read a book or poem aloud. I am reading my favorite poem from Yeats’ poetry book that I’d mentioned I’d been practicing, reading it as a calming listen and to highlight how Yeats wrote sound into his poems, through rhymes and alliteration, in…
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Intermission: Poetry by W.B Yeats
Pride and Prejudice reached a point of intermission for me to enjoy a night hour of poetry from Selected Poems by W.B.Yeats. Instead of writing a review, I will read to you my favorite poem from the collection that you may listen. I liked the cover photoed in this when I found the book at…
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A Pocket Blank Page Journal: for Leaves and Flowers I May Discover and Press
Set up with it all ready. Tea first, and then the little treasures I’d found (which are hidden in the photo for now.) Don’t worry; I am not drinking the glue. I bought this blank journal and it arrived yesterday, in which this morning I’ve placed flowers or leaves that I’d find and press in…
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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.…
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Dream of Someone 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…
Blush of Dawn 