Tag: virginia woolf

• A Self-Portrait & Writing by Hand

  Updates throughout, covers through Friday :D. Wednesday, and Virginia Woolf served so many cups of tea written into the short story collection Monday or Tuesday that there’s no desire left for another cup of tea for me today. From that particular set of stories, I really liked “The String Quartet” and “Kew Gardens.” Yesterday I […]

  09/29/2022 12:06 pm

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• Pure Fun, New Moon, Writing Notebook

  

  Last night Monday…Peeko sitting in my chair with such pride. And he might show up at your job as your new Project Manager, you never know. Last week I could sum up with the line, Reason for Exhaustion: Writing sonnets all day. One Shakespearean. One Petrarchan: complex rhyme scheme sent me crashing by 4 pm. […]

  02/01/2022 2:24 pm

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• An Accidental Scene and a Time of Reading

  It might not be gold; it might be silver, or pink, or green; it might expand before it goes; it might just happen to match you…or your blog. 😊🌸🍃🙃 [I deleted this post thinking the scene too grim with corn husk dolls fallen on the floor, but I’ve lightened since then of my own blog […]

  01/15/2022 7:42 pm

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• Even Stones Will Look New In Another Light

    “We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple.”—Virginia Woolf, The Waves * Earlier: A Note For The Morning

  05/18/2021 5:18 pm

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• Encircled By Light

    “Then Jinny came. She flashed her fire over the tree. She was like a crinkled poppy, febrile, thirsty with the desire to drink dry dust. Darting, angular, not in the least impulsive, she came prepared. So little flames zig-zag over the cracks in the dry earth. She made the willows dance, but not with […]

  04/23/2021 3:27 pm

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• The Official Site

  You might see that this blog’s address is now jadenicolebeals.com, the official author site ;), but still with the familiarity and sentimentality of Blush of Dawn begun on blogspot in 2010 and revived late 2020, and so the domain is really the only change. I am moving toward my next writing project, and at the same time I […]

  04/08/2021 6:55 pm

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• The Waves Rolled In…

  This picture shows the copy I got from the library but it is on my wishlist as a book to keep. “The waves rolled in…and now come rushing in…with water luminescent as sea glass, stirring the far off, softest sand and what lies in between…”  This is not a quote from the book, but the start […]

  04/05/2021 2:29 pm

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• Free Book: A Haunted House Stories by Virginia Woolf

  A Haunted House and Other Stories by Virginia Woolf (free online) This is one of the funniest books I’ve read in a long time! The words following one after the other are seemingly random at first but they come together so clearly as you read on.  It is not a scary book, which I enjoyed […]

  11/01/2020 3:26 am

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