Tag: uplifting
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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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Vacation
Peeko listening to a naptime story rest, sit, meditate, paint a little, walk. look at the sky, draw, notice scenery, sketch a scene, yoga stretch, continue to eat tangerines, tomatoes, drink green tea, make scrambled eggs with baby spinach, dinner meals. See how many cups of water I am actually drinking in the day, dawned […]
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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 […]
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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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My Short Story Printed and Ready, and an Author from Mississipi
I had started writing my novel, which will be a longer length project, but I have been kind of following my desire and writing poems and this “gift” story in between. As I had written previously that I was writing a “secret story” to be given to someone as a gift at my family’s Christmas […]
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#9
our eyes met with a smile a hill was nearby and conveniently so you would walk up and turn and face me I would note this instantly so I would look up
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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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Long Car Ride, I Am Reading Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
😊💓and I don’t even know the year of publication yet of this book! On the way to Western MA, to a railway. 😊🎄🚃 After I threw all my books off the shelf gently and arranged them, I picked a reread and I am reading Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men. I loved her Little Women book […]
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A Glam Christmas Party
And no one is taking pictures yet? Well I took a few of myself. 😊💕 I got these sparkly pants today and the pink and gold belt too for this occasion, and with a light, black open sweater. I decided to see it as a “dress up” party, with some spontaneous theme for myself. I […]
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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 […]
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Get the Party Started and then Welcome Relaxation
Besides sketching with pencils at the library, yoga arm balance against the wall is great fun, for an evening lift you up and then an eventual release of energy from the whole day—a quick hold, come down slowly, just a few, and then to relax, and to recline. 🙂 💕Jade
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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 […]
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Peeko Posing on the Window, “Mountain Peak” Displayed in Room
I may joke that my cat Peeko 🐱 is the ‘art curator,’ and that he will take your ticket with his paw to see my artwork on display, but he really does notice and appreciate my artwork, some more than others… Peeko admiring my latest painting on his own; (this is not a cat who […]
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Mountain Peak
“Mountain Peak” by Jade Nicole Beals, original abstract acrylic painting on 20 x 24 canvas, December 12, 2022.
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Care Cat, Teddie, and the Moon and Stars Pocket
…🐱Peeko and 🧸Teddie, ‘This is a very serious meeting’ a highly confidential meeting at the coffee table. 🙂 Peeko looks like he is trying to copy Teddie’s stance, and with his own classic ‘Peeko pout’ for effect. You might have read about my wellness replenishment index cards post I wrote, for artists or anyone who […]
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A Day in Pictures: A Creative Literary Morning
morning sencha tea, dreaming eyes, letting light into my eyes and face, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) for later on. after tea, may read Jane Eyre: I partly lived inside this book in my current life and did not remember that?😅 my novel printed draft so far, first 6 pgs, 3000 words, and handwritten […]
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1…2….3…4! Literary Salons Today, Tuesday
November 29, 2022 …And this cat is ready for nighttime relaxation; he picks and chooses where and what he will attend and what he will read…at home…We await his full results from the vet to receive this week; he seems contented and eating well. *** A Tip For Book Lovers who Like Baths: If you […]
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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
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Family Pictures
me with my in law relatives!, my very dear Grampie, with his grandchildren! (That includes my husband Dan in green, his brother Chad, and My grandfather Gerry’s other two grandsons. The two cousins are twins you may notice; I’d not seen them in yrs and I named them each right away.) Beals family photo. and […]
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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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#7
your smile’s sparkling, your eyes are enchanted: you’ve enchanted me with a deep memory that has just begun. This desire is an ancient current, a few steps climbed with cushions, and yet it is mostly unspoken.