Tag: wellness

• 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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• My Personal Healing Story

  “Lighthouse” painting by me (2013) Originally Posted: November 23, 2020 If you’ve been reading this blog this year, you might have seen me mention my own healing early spring this year and might have wondered from what I had found healing and what had helped me heal.  I want to share this story because maybe […]

  01/26/2023 4:31 pm

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• Self Portrait Yoga in the Sun

  

  01/25/2023 10:40 am

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• Morning Tea Party with New Winter Teapot

  

  A new teapot 😊 My novel notebook and pen are on the table to steep in ideas before I write them in…💕 I had been ‘wishing for it’ awhile, marked as a ‘winter and spring’ teapot. 🧚‍♂️ Thanks to my sister Jenna and brother in law Wally! I love that the gifts I received are […]

  01/23/2023 3:13 pm

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• Love Me Like…Wind Down Slow Flow Yoga and Written Meditation

  

  I wasn’t too glad with the video and the song particularly; I realized there are more videos I could do on my yoga channel @jadenicoleyoga. The wisdom part of the post that came after was not restoring, but I could see the full thoughts in draft. A tech issue that makes me realize what I […]

  01/23/2023 12:11 pm

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• Tuesday (And More)

  

  I myself have little memory of the day let alone the week, it has been a very busy week, but I am sure it was good. 🙂 I notice I was stressing the blog posts (as in stressing what is best?), and then I realized my goals don’t actually need me to do that when […]

  01/20/2023 7:28 pm

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• As if Within a Blush of Dawn Rose Champagne Upon Awakening

  

  I woke up in this.💕😊 Peeko saying, Do you see this? 😊💕 * And I feel well-rested after a full day as if from the year 1600, re-reading a favorite paper book called Memories by F. Muller (a book club read coming up from the library (if a book needs refreshment, just place it in […]

  01/20/2023 4:52 pm

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• Author Artist Kahlil Gibran Celebrates a Birthday

  

  January 6, 2023 Well, I am going next weekend to celebrate Christmas with my family in New York. I was sick with COVID on Christmas, and so was my husband—he got it first and is over it, as for testing: I am not yet but almost fully healed! We will go bearing gifts, including a […]

  01/20/2023 1:20 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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• 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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• My 4 Simple New Year’s Resolutions

  

  So this is a kind of hands off theme! Do you have any new year’s resolutions?

  01/01/2023 2:47 pm

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• Newflash

  Updates started on December 26th, ‘22 The triple lines on the top of this blog pulls out into a menu that includes About, My Books (my poetry collections I’d written), poems (a selection), paintings (I feel another abstract going to be painted like a poem itself), and drawings. It had also been long that I […]

  12/26/2022 11:47 am

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• Just Two More Things: A Secret Story to Gift and a Novel Read

  

  (This is my fortune cookie today, featured photo: I could have written it! You know 😅And maybe I did, indirectly, with “algorithms.”) I said I would go on my blog vacation, then I left on a sad note and with my original blog theme needing to be restored, and it is working fine now…that has […]

  12/20/2022 4:48 pm

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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, at the Party

  

  This was such an original idea by my cousin in law to have a dress up glam Christmas party and definitely my kind of fun. Pictures in… a photo of a selfie happening 💋 I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season…who knows, maybe you’ll want to have a glam party yourself….Break up the […]

  12/18/2022 9:53 am

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• All New Bookshelf as I Build My Own Home Library

  

  🎂Happy 247th birthday Jane Austen! Dramatic shelf height last yr, now all new arrangement, with a few additions I will tell about as I read (of those three, I’ve read Jane Eyre and Song of Solomon). You may know I am forming my home paper book library. Previous photo showed the before; now the shelf […]

  12/16/2022 11:22 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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• Singer Amy Lee’s Birthday and a Sketch at the Library

  

  Well, it looks like this blog in recent weeks has been me floating toward you upon a great sea of famous author and singers’ birthdays…I am keeping up. Today, I had looked online after thinking (there is another birthday?)…It is singer Amy Lee from Evanescence’s birthday. Last yr or before, I was so overwhelmed with […]

  12/13/2022 5:07 pm

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• Mary Haskell, author, art patron, and school principal celebrates a Birthday Today

  

  “People are always longing for someone to help them realize their best selves,” – Mary Haskell (portrait drawn by artist Kahlil Gibran) Today is writer, art patron (b. in South Carolina, 1873) Boston school principal, Mary Haskell’s birthday…that is, the big 149 yrs! Can you handle it? (This is probably the most biased birthday greeting […]

  12/11/2022 7:02 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

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• 3 Things to Do Today in Balance

  …feat. photo: for a future project, this Jane Eyre I was given, with the gold stain. The idea: Write a “found poem,” but I will not cut out or glue any words from the actual book, just look through it and arrange the words I will write on my own paper. 🙂 After a needed […]

  12/09/2022 12:30 pm

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• A ‘Lost’ Recipe Found and Made for Dinner, Delicious

  

  (my photo) I am not an 👩‍🍳official chef, but I cook plenty, and I made this Armenian-Lebanese dinner tonight. I am happy with the creativity you can find in cooking and wanted to share some. I’d heard of this meal sometime ago on a list, a rare or forgotten Armenian-Lebanese dinner recipe…It involves lightly stir-fried […]

  12/08/2022 7:37 pm

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• Live on Camera!: ‘Dreams’ Session with PsychCreative Salon

  

  December 6, 2022 …I stepped into the livingroom to find this blushing rose pink champagne and red wine sunrise sky today I attended this informative and interactive dreaming session and poetry reading last week on video. Tuesday. Next time I will put into practice not being so disruptive with moving my camera around the whole […]

  12/06/2022 2:57 pm

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• My Breath Said, Let’s Dance More, and then a Secret Gift Arrived

  

  (feat. photo, Fri., December 2, ‘22 concept: ‘philosophical inquiry on self-portraits in general’ while taking the photo) I spent the evening dancing before dinnertime… Realizing my breath can tell me that I’ve been away from it, and my body desire shows me I am happy to return. I’ve been doing plenty of writing, painting, blogging, […]

  12/05/2022 10:00 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 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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• 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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• A Future Poetry Project: Verse

  First, I would like to slow down; I realize if I tell about something that the person listening cannot follow, and I often feel sorry to see others overwhelmed with the quickness and excitability of my telling, asking me to retell. I will practice this when I speak with the next person I talk to. […]

  11/23/2022 5:11 pm

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• My Novel’s Progress Today, A Place to Pause for Now

  

  Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022 (blushing night skies receive my kisses) I consider what we may think others might expect from us and that we may be happier to surprise everyone naturally and pleasurably in writing or doing something, such as a novel, as you yourself find most interesting to write and read… …I’ve started writing […]

  11/23/2022 10:07 am

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• 232

  Nov. 17, 2022 I want to reserve my 2 pocket sketchbooks almost complete for in the moment sketches like a scene or thing drawn outside home also known as a field sketch. I would like to draw Peeko. He is napping now against my pink sweatshirt I was just wearing, I got another; his breathing […]

  11/17/2022 2:32 pm

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• candy-glitter

  if you’re wondering, my daydreams are sweeter, how I look at the sky all through the day; the candy-glitter kept its glitter, and I will keep my promise to gaze Jade

  11/15/2022 7:18 am

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• So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts

  

  Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing […]

  11/11/2022 4:44 pm

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• The Birthday Cat Wakes Up to Greet, Blog Show Part 2

  🎈Sorry, this is kind of like a Rugrats Parents thing 😂; but I was a little bit scattered some months and better mindful now, you can find my sketch of Peeko here. He’s been purring all this afternoon. Jade

  11/08/2022 4:29 pm

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• Happy Birthday Blog Bash for My Cat Peeko and A 2nd Blog Show

  https://youtu.be/YWj35QSw_0A from Jade Nicole Beals Channel.

  11/08/2022 2:42 pm

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• Homemade Pillow

  Daylight Savings I will wake earlier and then continue sleeping ‘til there becomes a natural wake up time for me. The buckwheat pillow is great, my face feels good with space while I sleep, am breathing well while sleeping, I sleep lower down the pillow so less arch for neck and a more even plane. […]

  11/07/2022 5:27 am

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