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• Listen to Me Read My Newest Poem, “Heat Rises”

  Friday night for a poetry reading. This is a recent poem I wrote in time for spring in Boston. When I first posted this reading today, I revised the poem after hearing it (and that is a good writing tip—this one is complete.) I recorded this poem while in the car waiting for a seat…

  03/24/2023 6:54 pm

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• The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran, A Review and Reflection, After Studying This Writers’ Circle for Years

  

  I read this novel, The Broken Wings by artist and author, Kahlil Gibran (1912) this Saturday morning, a brief and very flowing read, the book found by me the day of my Art Show Reception, at the local library beforehand, unexpectedly, as I was looking for a couple of books to pick one to start…

  03/11/2023 5:47 pm

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• A Table Ready for the Day and a Poem

  

  My novel draft notebook and the most recent pgs written, printed, to be continued, poetry notebook for initial poetic lines and imagery, my most recent draft of a poem I’ve completed and sent in to a magazine 💚, my fiction notebook came along as loose papers rest on it nicely whether or not I plan…

  02/27/2023 6:20 pm

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• A Reader’s Confession and Recommendation of a Poet: Seamus Heaney

  

  Poet b., April 13, 1939, Ireland, portrait of the poet in 1970, by Herald Tribune. At the time years ago, it upset me just a little that I could not experience for myself in the reading what my poetry professor had said about the poet Seamus Heaney: His writing has an original style, a style…

  02/26/2023 7:52 pm

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• A Bear’s First Bath and Other Little Writing News

  

  There was not much of a literary salon today, but there is no rigidness! Instead, mainly, a teddybear beauty salon…🧸 Alisi’s first bath, fur fluffed and gently brushed (left), sitting with Teddie, also bathed and brushed. Behind the bears you may see a notebook and pen where I am handwriting passages of my first novel.…

  02/21/2023 6:51 pm

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• Author and Salon Host, Miss May’s Birthday Party

  

  b. Feb 11, 1886 (heaven resets, and so she shows up around my age together.) …Pick an outfit for day, for breakfast. Maybe dance later! Applaud. I translated this French poem by May when I’d found her first book of poems; it is an introduction to the book. 😊💕 But I wrote it two other…

  02/11/2023 8:30 am

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• Love Sent in Many Ways

  

  (featured: Peeko on the couch, having a quietly relaxing morning with his Mama) * I was really sad to hear of the earthquake in Turkey today. I was maybe better prepared to hear it with a lovingkindness dream last night, of myself being lifted up in love and carried, before I saw the news or…

  02/08/2023 3:30 pm

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• Sewing Surprise, Novel Neatness, Painting, and Miscellaneous

  

  (Photo quote by literary salon host May Ziadeh) Sewing Surprise At the literary salon birthday edition much was shared in my own prayerful personal reflection at the start, and who knew I could mend my own winter coat? I have no problem having a tailor in town sew it, or hem pants. It’d been awhile…

  02/07/2023 1:43 pm

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• Pocket Delights: a Day Mostly ‘Unplugged’ and a Surrealist Sketch I Drew

  

  After my nap in the sunlight, I continued reading and completed the book I had mentioned, a funny memoir by Jen Lancaster, but I won’t say anything more yet, I am looking forward to discussing it with the Book Club in person. It’s been a refreshing (I did actually put down the blog today 🙂…

  01/24/2023 7:43 pm

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• Submitting My Abstract Paintings to a Gallery and Writing My Novel

  

  January 23, 2023 (corrected post) 🐱Peeko with my white jasmine flower art (not one I’d submitted) Corrected post: Today I entered a couple of my own original paintings into the Boston Museum of Fine Arts: correction; it’s the Juried Exhibition for Abstract Art in Mansfield, MA: I wasn’t sure about the place itself at first;…

  01/23/2023 3:18 pm

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• “The Doll House”

  The Doll House by Jade Nicole Beals Sara was climbing the hardwood carpeted stairs into what once was her playroom as a child. She was delighted to come upon a huge mysterious wrapped package that she’d never seen before. Should she open it or not? Sara questioned this as her hand hung in the air…

  01/14/2023 4:58 pm

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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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• I Started Over, A New Short Story, and It’s Completed!

  But you will not read it in this post. 🙂 I was writing a secret short story as a gift to be given to someone (no one knows but me) at the upcoming Christmas gathering with my family in New York… The one I started writing the other day I was not too happy with,…

  12/22/2022 12:36 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

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• Christina Rossetti, A Classic Poet Not Often Heard, Celebrates a Birthday

  

  A poet whose writings meant a lot to me this year is Christina Rossetti. Born in London the same year as Emily Dickinson in 1830, she was of British and Italian heritage, wrote just a few questioning, romantic, sassy poems, along with her better known childrens’ rhyme in a book called Goblin Market, and was…

  12/12/2022 9:00 am

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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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• One Question

  

  —What do you enjoy besides painting or writing or the fine arts? One thing: I really like fashion; I will need to find an outfit for a “Glam Christmas party” I received an invite to, and casual fashion is fashion too; I’d not heard of an event like that. But I like it. I got…

  12/11/2022 5:53 pm

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• Writing Your Novel, A Strategy: You May Start with a Question or Two of Choice in Real Life

  Writing can be in your mind or imagination, but building your story, it can really help as you write to get real life information just by asking an informal interview to someone of your choice you may find works in a field you know not much about. It does not have to translate the profession…

  12/09/2022 4:19 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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• 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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• A Book of Essays on My Bookshelf for Years Unread—Read Today

  Reading Collected Essays by George Orwell, a book I’ve had on my shelf for many years, it was a gift from my sister one year, that I’d not wanted to read each time I’d picked it up over many years, but also did not give it away, it had felt like ‘for another time’, and…

  12/05/2022 3:35 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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• “Resonance”

  by Jade Nicole Beals How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed. I want to kiss as a practice. If you wish to. How did I find this video again? I practice the dance; I must try it again. I go to the mall to buy a…

  12/02/2022 10:55 pm

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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 I added updated info to this post on how to place a book in the freezer. 4 Literary Salons Today …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…

  11/29/2022 8:57 am

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• A Letter between author May Ziadeh and Friend, with My Own Line of Literary Critique

  an excerpt from Intimate Pages, Part Two, with dedication to her friend Sidonie Ripperger, in May’s first book of poetry in French, Fleurs de Reve, Flowers of a Dream: …You end your letter by complaining that you are a young girl, not a young man. You are a little right; women have been called “the…

  11/28/2022 8:33 pm

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• Re: Deleted Posts, Dear Reader

  I was reading after dark last night by my library window, lamplight, I started with this nursery rhyme of my own… ‘I sit quietly in this chair, I will comb through my hair, and I will read Jane Eyre.’ I am sorry for these pretty hastily deleted posts; I remind myself writing is free, and in…

  11/24/2022 8:11 am

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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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• 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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• Where?

  I am seeing time moving forward in days, weeks, and months, rather than as a single day with few hours, so I just keep writing my novel as much as I would like to each week, and time continues replenishing on its own… That leaves me at 2928 words to rest the whole weekend, a…

  11/19/2022 6:57 pm

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• A Very Cute Blue Cookie

  

  A poetic line came to mind just before I met the NaNoWriMo writers tonight…It brought me to the more center place in my story’s theme, as I was getting myself thrown into a corner before that in my draft. I told a little visual from my own draft to relate to the other writers’ stories.…

  11/18/2022 8:47 pm

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