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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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• Writing a Novel 1st Day: Queset House, MA

  It was a lot of fun writing my first event for NaNoWriMo at the Queset House behind the historic Ames Library near where I live in MA. I hadn’t been in that ‘House’ before which is a public place; it was like stepping into someone’s old Victorian House in the victorian era itself. I was […]

  11/05/2022 6:17 pm

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• Indoors, Mostly Forget the Sky for Now, Pt. 1

  October 29, 2022, 8 pm night For tonight, let’s be indoors…Close and roll down the blinds, open partway, the stars are lit just a little, lamplights for relaxation and silent reading. I raced you to the chair: I think I got there first, am very fast. I like how you have better jokes. 😉 last […]

  10/29/2022 7:36 pm

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• A Poem in the Making, Verse Three

  

  I have my two dictionaries, thesaurus, my poetry notebook and pen ready to continue my poem in the making I began yesterday. Monday. Verse Three. Again. How your lips cover mine in quick, full kisses: Seal this. In silence, only this redolence I come away with on the fibers of my homespun autumn dress.

  10/24/2022 10:12 am

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• Just Because

  … 2. One line poem in a minute or less: How do I word this: I want to enjoy a dessert that has not yet existed; I want to kiss as a practice. 😘 (The post’s title is an implied last line of this poem’s first line I’d not known I was going to write, […]

  10/23/2022 4:48 pm

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• “Sincerity”

  AUGUST 8, 2022 The theme to write on was ‘flying and falling’ with 800 words max…This one is under 500 words, prose poetry in style. Sincerity by Jade Nicole Beals “Did you get new hips?” Colbert said to me. My face appearing non-phased, I said, “No, Why do you ask?” I had just begun to […]

  08/08/2022 4:24 pm

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• In the Light as it was Falling

  

  … (prose poem, to go along with photos, this one’s in a ’list style’) …Closing the day this way. Morning: I brightened every teacup. Unexpected guests arrived on time: one plumber, two plumbers, three plumbers…all day, fully revitalizing the hot water tank…and the literary salon goes on, and then another tea, dinner cooked and enjoyed […]

  07/28/2022 12:39 pm

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• A Picture of a Moment in My Life in Words

  We’d recently had the shower/bath tile wall re-grouted. The workers arrive and knock, I open the door, I am probably half their height as I say hi and welcome them in. They step inside to see a giant, fluffy gray cat running away into a back bedroom at top speed, gaining more speed gradually, tripping […]

  06/20/2022 5:22 pm

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• …*

  

  …as if I’d dreamed the tea cup, but found it first and remembered the dream in my own fancy when I received it and picked it up in my hands and looked… The design is just what I would wish…Green I often turn to and admire, green that feels like new sprouts and grass and […]

  06/06/2022 2:49 pm

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• These Hands…

  In the post, A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show, I’d found some surprise things inside books, like a handwritten paper, so I decided to make up my own writing prompt with an idea I’d had…Whether you try this imaginary exercise or another, these free writes can be plenty of […]

  05/20/2022 11:17 am

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• A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show

  

  I found this bookmark in a library book I’d taken out and read yesterday, a slim blue copy of literary insight with a little biography of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. From that book, these lines of a poem by Edna I’d not heard of spoke to me most poignantly: The stone the angel rolled […]

  05/17/2022 7:57 pm

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• A Letter to My Missing Sunglasses

  Dear Sunglasses I Lost (Maybe 6 Months Ago), Where did you go? I last saw you near my home—I think I’d put you down by the forest and forgot you there, but I can’t be too sure. The only animal I could think of might’ve taken you was a fox…I’ve never seen a fox, with […]

  04/24/2022 7:18 pm

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• Finding Things You Already Had, A Runaway Sonnet: #2

  

  It looks like a large, elegant old book, and it opens up for storage. I’ve started writing a new poem yesterday. Peeko loves to be a part of the creative process…Is that a hen, you may wonder? And now Peeko has a pen and his own separate page. As I began writing by hand, I’d […]

  10/28/2021 9:07 am

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• The Excitement of Finding Things You Already Had: #1

  

  Well, I decided to find new table mats and to replace the ones I’d burned a little years ago with a frying pan maybe twice and hadn’t picked them out specifically, also saw I wanted more color and softness. These handwoven placemats and this vintage napkin holder I found on Etsy arrived yesterday morning and […]

  10/27/2021 8:23 am

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• And The Moon’s Shiny Tonight

  It’s the Moon! You know it. A song came on my shuffle today, think my own Christmas thought, save it in my mind for a future post, keeping my hands off the blog, and then quickly check social media late that night to see Britney Spears has posted a Christmas picture. 🎄 I take a […]

  10/16/2021 10:54 am

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• Pick Your Dream to Slip Within

  Good morning, the sun is warm to bathe in, the air is cool, the scent of coffee made by a neighbor drifts in the air and the bird calls are so quick, until one bird sings longer, more loudly, and complexly; the coffee aroma drifts near, drifts away, wind in the trees. My eyes are […]

  06/13/2021 10:16 am

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• Sleep Blogging?, Sleep Talking, And A Writing Prompt For You

  Got these two books at the free library cabinet. I had brought two to give, they fit, and there were exactly two I wanted. The one on top is a novel I’d added “to read” in the morning before I had gotten there and had seen it at the cabinet. I had seen a friend […]

  03/13/2021 12:25 pm

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