Tag: uplifting

• 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 today because I’d wanted to 😊💕📚. It was not great though overall: windy, cold, and the wind kept blowing […]

  02/02/2023 3:52 pm

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• Pride and Prejudice at the Library and Two Poetry Re-Finds

  

  Quickly snapped in a pleasantly secluded spot.🧚‍♂️I think the Non-Fiction sign signifies that I’m real (maybe.) 😊 This time the bus came, and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice also made it to the library (with a Jane character inside, and a mistakenly named-Jane, myself, who often wouldn’t correct people who seemed confused with the name […]

  01/27/2023 4:11 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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• 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 […]

  01/12/2023 10:43 am

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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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• 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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• 2022: A Flash of a Recap

  

  December 31, 2022 This was the first book I read this year, a poetry book by Robert Frost (b. March 26, 1874) that won a Pulitzer Prize in Literature in the 1920s, and this is an over 100 yr old copy from the library: I was up late past my bedtime reading Frost! He just […]

  12/31/2022 9:28 am

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• Peeko’s Christmas Party

  

  —😽Peeko WAIT! — Happy 73rd Birthday, George Winston! I am listening to your Summer album, my favorite of yours. (Catches breath 😉 💕—Jade

  12/26/2022 11:33 am

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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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• 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 […]

  12/22/2022 4:30 pm

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• Merry Christmas featuring My Nephew Jordan

  

  I called off the blog vacation ‘cause all I can really do today is things like nap to hip hop and dance music and meditative songs just free playing on shuffle, most that I would hope to dance to normally. But I will moderate the blog postings not to get too crazy with screentime. 😊💕🙏 […]

  12/22/2022 2:27 pm

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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

  12/21/2022 8:03 pm

  allusion, beauty, gratitude, my haiku and tanka project, my poetry, night, poetry, short verse, tanka, uplifting

• “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 […]

  12/20/2022 6:03 am

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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 […]

  12/19/2022 10:41 am

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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 […]

  12/17/2022 9:15 pm

  angels, fashion, fun, holidays, italian, italy, massachusetts, memoir, my photography, night, self portraits, uplifting

• 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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• 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

  12/13/2022 7:16 pm

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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

  20th century, beauty, birthday, birthdays, book reflection, book review, books, boston, home library, literary critique, massachusetts, michigan, my photography, night, pennsylvania, philosophy, poetic, prose poetry, spirituality, toni morrison, uplifting, virginia, writers, writing process

• 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 […]

  12/12/2022 1:18 pm

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• Mountain Peak

  

  “Mountain Peak” by Jade Nicole Beals, original abstract acrylic painting on 20 x 24 canvas, December 12, 2022.

  12/12/2022 12:49 pm

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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 […]

  12/11/2022 6:28 pm

  art, artists, fun, gifts, gratitude, handmade, home, meditative, my photography, peeko, portraits, relaxation, rest, secrets, self-care, uplifting, vacation, wellness

• A Glimpse, in Red

  

  December 10, 2022 This picture I just got to see tonight. It features my cousin in laws’ wedding in Western MA I’d written a little about on the blog. You will also see me, from the back in a red dress, with black heeled strap shoes, my hair up, and I am on the dance […]

  12/11/2022 4:54 pm

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• Happy Birthday, Britney! (A Literary and Art History and Present Day Post)

  My December 2nd post rewritten as you’ll read on… :): The last I remember, I was writing yesterday evening about the phrase a “New York minute” and expressing I would like to slow down, in my amended post to wish Britney a happy birthday from the post of December 2nd, and somehow half the night […]

  12/05/2022 12:53 pm

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• My Art Projects in Progress and Ones I’ve Noted for the Future

  

  Wednesday, November 30th, ‘22 Yesterday, there were about 4 writer and book events happening. I went to 3 events :), and my cat Peeko attended 0 of them by his choice. (…He just made this expression like me, as if with humor, mid-groom and bathing himself for a long while; I tried to get a […]

  12/05/2022 10:10 am

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• I Finish My Falling Apart Copy of Jane Eyre Before Midnight

  

  (photo and content update, “the morning after”) …I started with a short paint session, and I have the first part of my idea started well while the rest of the canvas looks in messy distress, but I was able to stop in time to just paint a little and also complete Jane Eyre (1847) while […]

  12/01/2022 10:19 am

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• My Pick from the List, and My Complaint

  November 31, 2022 I picked from my list: I wanted to paint; it was looking beautiful; I had no concept beforehand, and I saw a look I liked from the start. But then I kept adding and adding and I found a concept at that point, with a tone of a color I’d added but […]

  12/01/2022 6:43 am

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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 […]

  11/29/2022 10:42 am

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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 […]

  11/29/2022 8:57 am

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• Bedtime Story: Raindrops

  …There are little raindrops on the window that I can hear; I have just brushed my teeth, combed my hair, washed my face, patted it dry, placed on moisturizer with my fingertips moving in little, soft circles, and I am all ready for bed. The raindrops sound more like pearls on a woman’s neck than […]

  11/28/2022 8:58 am

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• An Idea for Pressed Flowers and Nature Collectors

  

  November 27, 2022 I was spending the end of the day and night in heavenly company, when I was doing yoga on the wall, with breaks in between to read Jane Eyre, I found a little tree bark, preserved, oh my guest 🙂 may have noted these pressed flowers or leaves with a hint of […]

  11/27/2022 8:09 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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• 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 […]

  11/24/2022 10:12 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 New Drawing I Am Working On of An Imagined Scene

  

  …Monday Plan meals for the list, write shopping list (I missed my season for plums, oops. :). Buy other foods. Drawing I found this single sheet of drawing paper in my printer drawer as I await my drawing pad to arrive soon. I am creating a surreal scene, I have a hard charcoal pencil that […]

  11/21/2022 10:13 pm

  art, drawing, home, lovingkindness, meditation, memoir stories, my photography, peeko, surrealism, uplifting

• 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 […]

  11/19/2022 11:07 pm

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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.

  11/17/2022 8:12 am

  beauty, cherished moments, love, lovingkindness, my poetry, poetry, tanka, uplifting

• think of how

  rinse my face with cool almond milk think of how I’ve been thinking you are so pretty

  11/16/2022 1:21 pm

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