Tag: water

• My Pocket Sketchbook— Video

  Sketchbooks make great conversation pieces. I have completed these 2 pocket-sized books, and I will continue drawing in my jumbo size sketchbook and my drawing paper book for drawings that are also finished art and can be shown or displayed on their own. My 2nd sketchbook is complete. Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” is the cover…

  03/25/2023 6:16 pm

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• A Three Part, Famous Poem by Seamus Heaney, and On Interpretation

  

  Triptych— three poems within one (my own photo of clover and pine last summer) by Seamus Heaney Field Work (1979). This poem makes use of many metaphors, or maybe more accurately figurative language; it historically refers to a tragic event known as “Bloody Sunday,” Seamus writing this poem just after a more recent event that…

  03/16/2023 4:00 pm

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• Servant of Love by Patty Griffin, with One Favorite Thing About Monday

  One Favorite Thing About Monday Finding 2 new favorite poems, by W.B. Yeats, instead of one (I am practicing them for your listen), and how he’d once said (paraphrased): “You give a poem its fine machinery, and that is all you do,” with his poems of lakes and isles and clover and honey…My favorite poems…

  01/31/2023 7:59 am

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• Sun Shower

  

  “Sun Shower” by Jade Nicole Beals, January 17, 2023, 24 L x 18 W acrylic on wrapped canvas. A warm, summer rain with plenty of light and color.

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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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.…

  01/20/2023 1:19 pm

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• Wellness, Water Hydration, My First Novel, First Week of Full Focus

  *The water intake change has really made me feel sufficiently well (the most normal I’ve felt) and not impulsive: I was just drinking water all the time thinking more must be better, but that was very likely washing away medicine and so less effective. While not staying thirsty, I am gradually drinking about 9 cups…

  01/15/2023 1:01 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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